This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CIB.2ACI/964.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Our Frank Gowell was born in 1894, so he would have been too young. He was adopted by the Gowell's. We know his adoptive father was John Dean Gowell of Litchfield, Kennebec, ME..b.11May1845...His mother was Florella Ann Woodworth b. 5 JUL1849 in Ashtabula, OHl