This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Loudenback McNelley, Alexander, Bratton, Edgar, Kemp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gk.2ADI/1085 Message Board Post: Here is some birth, death, and marriage information I found in the family Bible, which belonged to Jacob Lowdenback and Mary Ann McNelley. It isn't clear to me whether Lowdenback is spelled with a "u" or "w", but it looks like a "w" to me. Jacob Lowdenback and Mary Ann McNelley were married June 1, 1851 at Canton, Illinois. Jacob Lowdenback was born Nov 14, 1825 and died March 21, 1912. (Notes from my grandmother and father: He was born in Kentucky, and moved from Frankfurt, Kentucky to an area south of Paola, Kansas, sometime around the time of the Civil War. Jacob had a brother, W. H. Lowdenback . I have a notation about S.C. Lowdenback, a photographer in Pleasant Home, Kentucky. He may have been a son of W. H. Lowdenback.) Mary Ann McNelley was born April 21, 1833 and died Feb 20, 1912. Mary Ann McNelley's parents were John C. McNelley (born June 26, 1812, died January 3, 1892) and Isabel Edgar ( born July 28, 1809, died February 5, 1877). (Notes from my grandmother and father: Mary Ann McNelley's parents were well off with land near Louisburg, Kansas. Mary Ann McNelley had 3 brothers (one might have been Andrew) and no sisters.) I copied this information from a note handwritten by Jacob Lowdenback: "Jacob Lowdenback was born Nov 14, 1825 in Kentucky. Jacob Lowdenback and Mary Anna McNelley were married June 1, 1851. To this union were born 9 children: 5 boys and 4 girls. Four children survived: 2 boys and 2 girls. Came to Kansas the spring of 1857 and settled on farm 9 miles south west of Louisburg and has resided in this county continuously ever since." Jacob Lowdenback and Mary Ann McNelley had 9 children: 1. Andrew J. Lowdenback, born April 16, 1852, died April 16, 1852. 2. David Lowdenback, born Janurary 9, 1854, died in 1940 (information from Ora Mae Alexander, my grandmother: he is buried near Ola, Arkansas ) 3. Sarah J. Lowdenback, born April 4, 1855, married George W. Hamilton on May 4, 1873. 4. Susan Ann (Anna) Lowdenback, born on Oct 14, 1857 and died in May, 1920. She married John C. Alexander on Nov 3, 1879. John C. Alexander died in June 1922. Susan Ann Lowdenback and John C. Alexander's children are Charlie (m), Laurence (m), Ora Mae (f), Roy (m), Bernal (m). - Charles Camel Alexander, born @ 1878 (wife name's Mae?) daughter: Lucile son: Clarence - Laurence William Alexander: born @ 1879 - Ora Mae Alexander was my grandmother. She was born on October 11,1889, near Paola, Kansas and died on July 4,1983 on Bainbridge Island, Washington and is buried in Neosho, Missouri. She married my grandfather, Frederick Roy Jones on March 4, 1908. Frederick Roy Jones was born on April 30, 1886 and died on April 26, 1952 in Neosho, Missouri. - Roy Alexander, born Aug (@ 21) 1891, married Ellen and had a daughter, Eurah, who had a daughter named Bonnie Kemp. Bonnie was born on January 6, 1933, lived in Ola, Arkansas, and is now deceased. - Bernal Herbert Alexander born Mar 4, @ 1898, died in 1949 in Montana, married Bertha Johnson, in Montana. 5. Amanda E. Lowdenback, born March 8, 1860, died January 3, 1862. 6. Carrie A. Lowdenback, born February 28, 1864, died August 22, 1888. 7. James (Jim) W. Lowdenback, born September 29, 1866, died August 1899. 8. Willie O. Lowdenback, born on Dec 8, 1872. He married Ella M. Bratton on Oct 4, 1896. 9. Charles Lowdenback, born March 8, 1870, died April 8, 1873. Please let me know if any of this information is familiar to you. I'm looking for additional information on any of these people. Thanks, Marcia Washburn Jacob Lowdenback, b Nov 14, 1825 > Susan Ann (Anna) Lowdenback, b on Oct 14, 1857 > Ora Mae Alexander, b Oct 11, 1889 > Leland Bernal Jones > Marcia Jones (me).