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/CV4.2ACEB/263 Message Board Post: Trying to determine the parentage of Dr. Lewis S. Owings - founder of Helena, Texas (named for his wife Helen) and Provisional Govenor of Arizona at the beginning of the Civil War. His birthdate is possibly 1820 in Tennessee, he married on 1/5/1852 in Ellis, Texas.