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/HSB.2ACE/309.311 Message Board Post: According to Eva Elizabeth Jackson, granddaughter of J. D. Dowless, He told her his mother was Anna Martin. The daughter of John Martin and Ann Avery. Also John Martin was rasied by the Richard's family of WhiteOak,N.C..Eva Elizabeth Jackson was the daughter of Mary Lou Dowless,and Rufus Daniel Jackson. From my grandmother(Eva Elizabeth Jackson) she said that J. D. Dowless told her this information about his family.