This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BOMAR BUCKNER BUMGARDNER BUTLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jNB.2ACI/704.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There is a lot that is unknown and/or confusing about these families; but you can be sure it is Bomar (not Bowman, no matter how many databases so say [and I have seen several that do, including the two you mention]). And I just noticed this, from Gorin's "Hart County, Kentucky Birth Records": "02-16-1861. Buckner, Emmassetta. J. M. and Malvina S. [sic; but the originals are hard to read] Bumgardner. NS [meaning she was born north of the Green River]. Hart - Hart [meaning both parents, J. M. and Melvina, were born in Hart County]." She was Melvina's first-born (but probably died young). And, from Crabb's 1850 Hart County census: Family 1076 is headed by Robert Moore and includes several Moores and a Melvina T. [sic] Bumgardner, born in Kentucky, age 14. Family 1077 is headed by C. Bumgardner, born in Virginia, age 64 and includes eight Bumgardners (two of them are lawyers). And Family 1078 is headed by James Jameson and includes a Christina Bumgardner, born in Ken! tucky, age 12, and a Harrison Bumgardner, age 1. I'll bet Christina is the one who married Solomon Butler, 1856 (and her marriage record said she was born in Hart County).