This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Catlett, Moore, Williams, Henry, White, Evans, Burns, Downum, Mason Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nFQ.2ACEB/181.1 Message Board Post: My dead end in the Cowden line is a Thomas or William Cowden, married to a Cattern and born around 1775. They were the parents of Leonard "Len" "Lynn" or "Lenord" Cowden, born 1797 in South Carolina and died 1880 in Benton County, Arkansas. I know this is not the same William as yours, but are you familiar with this Thomas/William Cowden and probably Cherokee wife, Cattern?