Hi Steve Cooper, Your post is so interesting to me because I have been researching the Greenup Co Ky Howells that migrated from Bedford Co Va. and we have might have an interesting connection For many years now I have been trying to find out why, Alexander Oakes Howell and his wife Nancy West who were married December 20 1823, in Bedford Co Virginia named a daughter born January 31, 1830 Bedford Co Va Ottaway Annie Howell. On her death certificate it is Ottawa Annie but on the 1850 census it is Ottaway. That is really a different kind of first name for a daughter. I have never seen it before or since. I don't know what all this might mean, but in your posted census your Elizabeth is from Va. Maybe at some future point in time you may make some headway and be able to tell me if your Charles made a stopover in Bedford Co Va. and I can solve my little mystery here with Ottaway Annie. Thanks Rebekka ***** Who were these "family in Florence, Alabama" ? See ***** below. I need help in researching the family of Charles Attaway/Ottoway born in > > England about 1798 and died after 1850 probably in Franklin or Colbert > > County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth Garnett. Also, need help in > > researching the family of Emma Attaway/Ottoway and husband Captain Lee Howell. Obituary for Emma Ottoway Howell (Florence Times, Dec. 29, 1922, page 1, Florence, Alabama) Mrs. Lee Howell Dead Mrs. Lee Howell, widow of Capt. Lee Howell died at the family home 217 Chestnut Street, at 9:45 o'clock Saturday morning, following a short illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Howell had been in declining health since last summer, was taken ill 10 days ago but it was not until the last 24 hours that her condition became critical. Mrs. Howell, whose birthplace was in Tuscumbia, Alabama, was the formerly Miss Emma Ottaway, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Garnett Ottaway. She married Capt. Howell at the end of the civil war and for the last 40 years has lived in Evansville. Mrs. Howell who is the last surviving member of her family, leaves two children, Lee Howell and Mrs. James Edward Cox, and ne grandchild, Miss Emma Lee Cox. vansville (Indiana) Journal, December 16th. > > 1850 Census for Franklin County, Alabama > > > > Attaway (Note: Sometimes found as Ottoway) > > > > Charles M 52 Taylor England > > Elizabeth F 42 Va. > > Mary F 10 Al. > > Emma F 6 Al, > > Fran?ey F 1 Al. > > Chas. M 15 Al. > > > > > > Other families connected to Emma Attaway/Ottoway are Fosdick, Cox, > Garnett. > > > > Steve Cooper > > Cloverdale, Alabama