Does anyone know of a Stovall possibly Scott connection in East Tx? All I know is my great great grandmother was Nancy Stovall named as such in a deed transaction after her death when her husband John Zachary Bell sold her land in eventually Titus Co., TX. The family thinks her maiden name was Scott, but there is nothing to prove it. She died in Oct 1858 and was the mother of William Frank Bell. The Bells lived just across Cypress Creek in Camp Co. from Nancy's sold land. There is a E. Stovall with wife N. 19 years old (1850) who doesn't show up on the 1860 census. Nancy was supposed to be a young widow and older than John. Can't determine who E. Stovall is, even throught the Stovall Family Asso. Family stories include a connection somehow to a trading post and that Nancy traveled by horseback along with a wagon train with gold sewn into her skirts. The wagon train may have come from AL., but I've seen evidence that perhaps the Stovall branch came down from IL (place of birth in 1850 census) with a minister's wagon train through TN where Nancy is supposed to have been born. John's #2 wife Martha Jane is supposed to have been Nancy's sister, but I can't find their marriage certificate. She is supposed to have come to look after W. Frank and then married John. John died during Civil War and Martha never remarried to my knowledge. Lillie B. Ruby SWITW@aol.com