Well, Norma! I descend from Robert & Esther (Moore) Rose, too! Esther "Easter" Moore's parents were James Moore and Ellender Hamilton. James Moore was known as the first white settler in Owsley County, KY. I can send you an invitation to the John & Rebekah Rose Family Website for you to peruse, if you'd like. There is information on lots of our allied families, too, including the Moores! Just let me know. Thanks, Gail (Rose) Berish In a message dated 7/10/2007 2:32:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Bess, My Robert Rose was a brother to your David Bowen Rose. Robert married Esther Moore, and I don't know who her parents were. Robert and Esther Rose's daughter, Isabella, married James McKinney and their daughter, Esther married Alfred Taylor Gentry and they were my gg-grandparents. I don't have much on the Rose family or the McKinney family. James McKinney is my brick wall!! Norma At 02:18 PM 7/10/2007 -0400, you wrote: >HI-- >John and Rebecca are my 4X great-grandparents. At the present time they are >still searching for John's parents. They are doing DNA testing now, and are >not exactly sure where he came from. Personally, I like to think that he >was descended from the Roses at Kilvarock (Kil-rock) Scotland near >Inverness. They say the DNA proves he was descended from the "Long Island >Roses" so we really don't know. > >We do have more information about Rebecca. Her grandfather, Moses Owen >(which became Bowen after he came through immigration) came from Wales with >a group of Welsh immigrants about 1699. They settled in PA. Rebecca's >father was David, son of Moses, and she named two of her seven sons David >Bowen and Bowen David. I don't know if she did this to keep her father's >name and her maiden name alive. But if she did, she certainly succeeded. >There are David Bowen's and Bowen DAvid's galore in Rose lines coming down >to the present day(There were two girls too.) They all moved from what is >now West Va. to what is now Wolfe Co., KY about 1803--or somewhere in the >very early 1800's and settled on what is called Lacy Creek, near Hazel >Green, in what is now Wolfe Co., KY, with the exception of one daughter who >was married and had a family. She stayed in VA. John and Rebecca are both >buried at Lacy Creek along with a few other family members in a a very >small cemetery. > >I am descended from the first David Bowen Rose, son of John and Rebecca. He >married Sarah NIckell, and their son, James Nelson Rose who married Fannie >Swango, dau. of George Washington Swango are my g-g-grandparents. > >Well, I guess that's enough for now. > >Good to talk to another Rose cousin. > >Bess Rose Miller > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.