I am researching the BOWEN family, especially looking for anything on Frances Farmer Bowen, wife of Luke Bowen. She taught at the Sumterville Academy when Jacques Bishop and William H. Bowen were on the board at its opening. Several of her children moved to Sumter/Bishopville area from Fayetteville, NC: John David Bowen (b1796) who married Mary Anderson Johnstone (b1796); James Spearman (b1801) who married Charlotte Crosswell (1) Bowen (2) Stuckey; and Wm Henry (1794) who married Rebecca "Eliza" Kimbrough Brockington. Eliza was the daughter of Penelope Benton (1) Brock-ington (2) Bishop (wife of Dr Jacques Bishop). Also looking for info on Lucy & Gilbert Crosswell, William Jefferson Crosswell, Argent & Sarah Kennedy Crosswell, John & Cherry Rountree Kennedy. Thanks much. Marcia F. Bowen-Astley, Silver Spring, MD