This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Lawson, Biggs, Moore, Connally, Flournoy, Webb, Fox, Barber, Towers, Nolen, Marshall, Epperson, McCravey, Wise Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/26.92.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: No I don't have anything on Isaac Wheeler, and would LOVE to have a copy of what you have on the estate of Robert Cowden! I haven't found anything like that in my research...Is the last name (Cowden) spelled differently? Where did you find the record? I am so excited! New info on his family! Samuel had two sons by Martha Wilson - John and Walter Cowden, according to his will. Martha Wilson had Elizabeth and Martha Wilson by her first husband, Samuel Wilson. Elizabeth Wilson daughter of Martha above evidently married a James Cowden first, then either he died or they divorced, and she remarried to John Griffin who was a silversmith. Martha married Patrick McDavid/McDivit. I don't have any other info on another marriage of Samuel Cowden, except some people say he had been married before...NO PROOF in my files. I don't know how James Cowden connects to Samuel. Robert, Walter and William, the 4 brothers that are proven by records...I'm not even sure which James Cowden he was - he may have been the James son of William Cowden who died in 1748 in Augusta or a different one....There was also Henry Cowden in Augusta Co., VA who MAY have moved to Guilford Co., NC, but again NO PROOF. Much more research is needed on these lines. People say things but don't have FACTS to back them up. I want FACTS to prove the lines! LOL! Good luck, huh? PLEASE send me the Robert Cowden estate records you have! Email or snail mail, which ever you prefer! My thoughts without having seen the records you have are: Elizabeth Cowden Wheeler was PROBABLY a daughter of Robert and Hannah Cowden of Mecklenburg. No one knows for sure how many children Robert and Hannah had, except for Robert Cowden who married Mary Alcorn. If the estate was to be divided into 6 parts, then Hannah = 1, Robert = 2, Elizabeth = 3, ? = 4, ? = 5, ? = 6. There may be three more children to find! I will check to see if I have anything on the Wheelers, and let you know if I find anything.