This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Williams, Gore, Hammack, Thomas, Tosely, Maderas. Allison, Cattern Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nFQ.2ACEB/176.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Velma, I have a John Cowden, dates unknown, born to Henriette Chillcutt and James Cowden. John was willed a plantation by his father in Seveir County, Tennessee. I am somewhat confused about his relationship to me. John was either the grandson or the nephew of Leonard "Len" Cowden, my great-great-grandfather. (1797-ca. 1880). E. Alan Long