This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DBAE5A9E2B389626A2E7C79E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am trying to locate the Bowden, Neely, and King families who lived along the SC/NC state line in the area of Robeson County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Marion County, SC, Dillon County, SC, and Horry County, SC. I am forwarding a message I have also sent to the Marion County genealogy list. I hope someone can help me. Thanks. Sharlotte Neely Donnelly --------------DBAE5A9E2B389626A2E7C79E Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <38384204.BF0B9639@one.net> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 14:03:32 -0500 From: Tom Donnelly and Sharlotte Neely <donnelly@one.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MARION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Bowden, Neely, and King of the Carolinas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, everyone, I am new to the list. I am trying to locate more information on my father's family from the Carolinas and supposedly of French Huguenot and Irish (maybe Scots-Irish) ancestry. I think the Kings may have been from Marion or Dillon County, SC. My paternal grandparents were Joseph Bowden Neely, Sr. (1888-1928) from Bayboro, Horry County, SC and his wife Nettie King (1896-1958) from somewhere in the Carolinas, probably South Carolina, maybe Marion or Dillon County, SC. My grandmother always insisted that the family was of Irish (the Neelys) and French (the Kings) ancestry. There may have been some Lumbee Indian ancestry, too, but I am not sure. Joseph Bowden Neely, Sr.'s parents were Joseph E. Neely (born 1862 in North Carolina) and Sharlotte (Charlotte) (maiden name unknown--maybe Lee or Bowden?) (born 1853 in South Carolina). Joseph and Sharlotte also had two daughters, Ada and Ruthie. Nettie King's parents were Eddie King (probably from South Carolina) and Marguerite (maiden name unknown--maybe Bowden?)(probably from South Carolina). Eddie and Marguerite had a son named Lonnie King, who, around 1930, lived in Saint Paul's, Robeson County, NC with his wife (I think he was married to Mary Margaret Chappell) and their daughter (I think she was Helen Chappell King who married Jesse Lewis Greene). When Joseph Bowden Neely, Sr. and Nettie King married around 1920, they moved to Savannah, Chatham County, GA where Joseph ran his own business selling Indian motorcycles. He died just before his 40th birthday. Both of them are buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Many years after Joseph's death, Nettie remarried Harry Riley. Joseph and Nettie had twin sons who died as infants. Their surviving sons were my father, Joseph Bowden Neely, Jr. (1923-1974) and my uncle, James Robert Neely, Sr. (born 1927). Through the 1950s Nettie kept up with family news by writing to a woman in Maryland. Even when her sons pressed her about their heritage and for stories about the Neelys and Kings, she would not comment on either family. There may have been some family secret. I would appreciate any help in figuring out my Neely and King genealogy and how the Bowden family figures in. I just keep hitting dead ends. I would be grateful for any advice or leads. I want to know the truth, even if it involves a skeleton or two in the closet. Thanks so much. Thanks, Sharlotte Neely Donnelly donnelly@one.net http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly --------------DBAE5A9E2B389626A2E7C79E--