This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bryant - Powell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAB.2ACI/2159.2162.1 Message Board Post: Hi Donnie! Nope, not the same line but there is a similarity that could be a clue. My ggggrandpa was James who m. Ellender Powell - maybe your Powell was from the same family? We see a lot of brothers marrying sisters etc. - not a large pool to choose from there and then. Ellen came from N.C. and probably the Cherokee reservation there.