This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SPENCER, POWELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1077.2 Message Board Post: Hello, Cousin Ravyn! I guess we are really "half-cousins," since I descend from Joseph Spencer and his first wife, Sarah J. Powell, of Isle of Wight County, VA. Joseph was from NJ but went to Virginia during the 1850s and married there. After the Civil War, he and his family returned to NJ. I will write to you privately with more info. Ken Grace