This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.cattaraugus/2726.2718.2717.2719.2762.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Good Evening, I've been searching for my John Bowen for many many years. I know that he was born in Va. to a Sarah and that they had at least one child, Mary born in 1800. I don't have my records before me but I think it was Feb. @ 18. However, they were in Franklin Co., Tn. in time to own property tax in 1812. Now I do know that it was NOT Sarah Bean. Mary married a neighbor boy named Bluford Bethell @ 1821. There are no marriage records in Franklin Co., Tn. for that early of a time frame. Would anyone happen to have information on the Bowen family line that was in Smith (in the part that is now De Kalb) Co., Tn. by the 1810 census. At this time would like any kind of ideas, suggestions etc. Beth