Dick Smith has a good point: why DID so many families leave Ky. and Tenn. for Owen Co. after sampling Iowa and Missouri? One of my ancestors, Bolen Greenberry Baugh turned up in Owen Co. after his birth in 1823 in Ky. I can't find anything on his family in Ky., however. He married an Indiana native, Jennie Edwards, in 1844 in Owen Co. Another ancestor, Harvey Stephens, was born in Tenn. in the 1820s or 1830s. He married an Indiana native, Malinda Browning, in Hendricks Co. in 1852, and their first child, John W. Stephens III, was born in Owen Co. in 1853. Again, I can find nothing on his family in Tenn., nor anything on her Indiana family. Several of the Baughs and the Stephenses then ended up in Iowa and Missouri AFTER their sojourn in Owen Co., however. Does anyone recognize any of my above ancestors? Terri in Seattle