This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/He.2ADE/1302.1 Message Board Post: i have john howells family line from the time he arrived in north carolina on up to the 1950s. this was from research done by a mrs. harper who was a florist in atlanta, she has been dead for a good many years. i will check what i have and see if it is the same family. my grand mother was a howell, her father william austin howell they were from douglas county. some of them predate 1830 but go back to the mountains of western north carolina. thank you and may God bless you. franklin blair carrollton, ga.