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/ok.2ADE/1665.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Walter, thanks for your kind reply to my query--you are correct that Emma Cowles, my grandmother (wife of Sanford) is a generation later than Mabel's Chauncey Cowles generation. I mistakenly noted Mary Melissa (Dyas) Breeding as Emma's sister. Of course, she is my grandmother's mother. So it appears Mary Melissa also married a Cowles (Chauncey) after her marriage to John Breeding. I have not yet followed your suggestion to surf Rootsweb, but I will immediately as I cannot yet connect to Chauncey's ancestry. You deserve my e-mail thanks, Walter--should you desire to offer it!