My great-great-great-grandmother was Miriam Rowland, daughter of Thomas Rowland (1750-1836) and Mildred McCoy Lewis (1759 - 1847). Born in Rutherford County, NC in 1780, she died March 18, 1845. She is buried near her daughter, Huldah Logan (wife of Francis Logan) in the Mt Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery in White County, GA, near Cleveland. She married Ransom Powell in 1797, but her father, in his Greenville, SC will, (probated April 18, 1836) speaks of her as Mira Queen. My copy is, of course, transcribed, but Mira could well be a nickname for Miriam. She and Ransom had several children. I have very little information on Ransom aside from a deed record in Anderson County, SC dated 1805, an 1803 Pendleton County, SC Land Grant, and a record (Book H, page 238, April 24, 1817) of a sale of 58 acres in Anderson County to Thomas Rowland. Miriam is found later in Habersham County, GA, where she had children. The big mystery is this. Her tombstone inscription, which I have seen, says "Miriam Powell, died March 18, 1845 at age 65. Daughter of Thomas Rowland". Thomas had been dead since 1836. There is no mention of a husband. If she remarried, why wasn't her husband's name on her stone? A few years before she died she acted as executrix of her son's will, and her name was given as Miriam Powell then, also. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Lily Mullinax