I am trying to solve a mystery concerning my great-great-great-grandmother, Miriam Rowland, daughter of Thomas Rowland and Mildred McCoy Lewis, born in Rutherford County, NC, 1780, and died in White County, GA, 1845. She married Ransom Powell in 1797, and he predeceased her. I do not know when he died, but he is listed in Rutherford County tax records of 1820. The mystery is this. Her father died in Greenville District, SC in 1836, and in his will he named all of his children. Miriam, his eldest child, is listed as Mira Queen, and this would indicate that Ransom had died and Miriam had remarried. (Mira could well be a nickname for Miriam.) Miriam turned up in Habersham County, GA, where she had married children, and was an executrix for the estate of her son, Thomas A. Powell, in 1842. Her name at that time is given as Miriam Powell. She died in 1845, and her tombstone in Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery, White County, GA gives her name as Miriam Powell, "daughter of Thomas Rowland". Thomas was long dead, and no mention is made of a husband. There were Queens in Rutherford County, NC and in Habersham County, GA. Does anyone know of one who married a widow (divorcee?) Miriam Rowland Powell? Why wouldn't she use the name of her second husband, if she had one? I am completely baffled. Can anyone help me? Lily Mullinax