This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowman, Gephart, Kreitzer, Mohler, Longenecker, Brightbill, Koons, Tombaugh, Smit Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JaB.2ACE/3491.1 Message Board Post: I have Samuel and wife Susan Koons Bowman on my line. Their son Samuel K. Bowman married Rebecca Kreitzer and they went to Oklahoma as you have said. I found them in the 1900 to 1930 census and they had two sons: Charles and Edward , b. ca. 1777 and 1779. Samuel K. was still living with his parents at the time of the 1870 Census of Cumberland Co. and 19 years old. I do not know when Oklahoma Territory was opened to settlement, but it must have been 1875 to 1900. I found a source listing Rebecca's ancestry and it uses World Family Tree Vol. 5, Tree # 0974 and it states that Andrew Kreitzer, b. 1878, Berks Co. mar- ried Catherine Gebhart , b. 1878, and their son John Kreitzer, b. 22 Jan 1815 in Montgomery Co., OH, mar- ried Rebecca Gephart, b. 23 Aug 1821 in Berks Co.,PA on 22 Apr 1841. Their children: Mary Ann[1842], Henry [1843],Elizabeth [1847],Andrew [1850], David [1852] Joseph A. [1854], Sarah Catherine 1857 and Rebecca Ellen [1859]. I do not know where Isabella comesfrom But, as you know, just because something is printed or is on a CD does not mean it is correct. This is what my search of Ancestry World Tree Project found. My line is Christian Bowman> John Bowman> John William Bowman, John Henry Bowman. John Bowman, b. 1818 was a brother of Samuel Bowman.