This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoskins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nBB.2ACI/2893.3.2 Message Board Post: After studying those two pension applications, here are my summary conclusions as they apply to the family of Katherine Kate Hoskins. Would welcome any differing conclusions. Stokley Bowlin says that he and Eli Griffitts married sisters. (Stokley Bowlins pension application) The rest comes from Eli Griffitts pension application: Cintha Bowlin, spouse of Stokely Bowlin says that Eli Griffitts married her half sister (so we assume that Cintha Bowlin and Frankie Griffitts are half sisters). Eli Griffitts says that Thomas Hoskins is his father in law, John Hoskins is brother to Thomas, both deceased prior to 1890. Eli Griffitts says that Katy Hoskins is his mother in law and that she is living with Isaac Garrison. (Isaac Garrison married Nancy Hoskins, daughter of Kate Hoskins) Frankie Griffitts says that she was a Hoskins and married Eli Griffitts 4 Mar 1858 at the home of Thomas Hoskins Irvin Hoskins confirms that Frankie Hoskins married Eli Griffitts. Eli Griffitts says that John Hoskins and Thomas Hoskins were present when Andy Hoskins hit him with the rock. Frankie Hoskins Griffitts says that her Daddy and John Hoskins were present when Andy Hoskins threw the rock (implying that Thomas Hoskins is father of Frankie Hoskins Griffitts). John Hoskins, age 47 in 1890, says he is sister to Frankie Griffitts. That would make him about age 17 in 1860. The John Hoskins in the home of Katy Hoskins in 1860 is age 18. That looks like a match. Conclusions: Thomas Hoskins and Katherine “Kate” Hoskins are the parents of Frankie Hoskins Griffitts. The other children of Katherine Hoskins are Cintha Hoskins Bowlin (not found in the Thomas Hoskins & Eliza North family, so she must be a daughter of Katherine Hoskins), John Hoskins, & Nancy Hoskins, father of these latter three is unknown.