via PML. The original post is now at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.cozby&m=14.18 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: PML Search Result matching mcbee or macbee or "mc bee" or "mac bee" Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:28:32 -0600 From: Anita Cowan <anitacowan@msn.com> . Source: GC-COZBY Queries . Subject: James and John Cozby ------------------------- ... James Trimble Cozby was the brother of my ancestor Isabella Cozby (1816?) who married (1) William Wallace Cowan; 2) John M.Bates. James Trimble Cozby's parents were John Cozby and Abigail McBee (sometimes written Magby). His paternal grandparents were Dr. James C. Cozby and Isabella Woods. ... The 1880 Denton Co. Census shows that James T. is 45 and his wife Virginia is 29, ... These folks came into the Denton area from Eastern Tennessee, mostly Rhea, Meigs and Bradley County were strongholds of Cozbys and Cowans. My ancestor, James T. Cozby's nephew, Wm. Wallace Cowan, settling just west of his uncle in the Elizabethtown community (now gone except for the cemetery) ... Anita Cowan