First of all, for those I've communitcated with before re: the Boones, McKeithens, Pounds, ... I have a new email address. It is now jharley2@suddenlink.net. Thanks. I'm sure there are countless stories circulating about the escapades of Henry Berry Lowery.. but my husband's family has their own personal one. It seems that the Lowry gang kidnapped a young girl named Isabella Boone over in Brusnwick Co.,NC . Isabella lived in the Town Creek area of Brusnwick which isn't far from the swamps and not too far from the Lowry stomping grounds. I have suspected that there is a kinship of some kind I haven't figured out yet. The early Boones were somehow connected to the BERRY family of Brusnwick. One Daniel Berry took in a young orphan named Thomas Boone after his father died. Found in BRUNSWICK CO.,NC Minutes of Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Vol. 1, page 157, 1795 , "Upon application the Court agreed that Sarah Boon and Isaac Green be put on the parish and supported out of the poor tax." Page 232 1797, "Ordered that Thomas Boon an orphan lad of about fourteen years of age be Bound as apprentice to Daniell BERRY to learn the occupation of a Mill right till he arrives to the age of Twenty One years, and that the Indenture be Executed before Benjamin Mills, Esqr. Pg. 224 Daniel Berry appt. to patrol between Town Creek and Hoods Creek. (Location 'tip:northern part of county. Early Brunswick County was in 6 Districts: North to South> Northwest, Towncreek, Smithville (Southport's old name), Lockwoods Folly, Waccamaw, & Shallotte. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Daniel Berry may have been a kinsman of Henry Berry Lowry. Maybe a grandfather. Isabella "Bell" Boone was born 1846, so was probably a young lady when she was kidnapped. They did send a posse of men after her, and did rescue her.. but I do not remember much more . The Berrys of Brusnwick and the Boones of Brunswick may have been neighbors.. but may have been kinsmen too. No proof. Joanne Harley NC