This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowden, Packer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SRB.2ACE/3737.5 Message Board Post: Somewhere, probably on this board (but I can't locate the message) I read that Lydia Packer, mother of Charley Cowden and my g-g-g-grandmother Mary Ann Cowden, was the dau. of James Packer. Does anybody remember this or have more info on it? Rick and I are trying to put together a comprehensive Family Tree Maker file for this family. Thanks - Marti Friddle Graham, NC