This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stowell, Berry Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QAQBAEB/394.407.408.1 Message Board Post: I'm a descendent to Reuben Stowell's wife Olive Berry. I have some information. I know there is another Reuben Stowell buried in the Brownville(Me) Village Cemetery,died Oct 22, 1848, at the age of 84(per headstone), the father, presumably of Olive's husband. Here are a couple of blurbs I found on Reuben: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. page 550 Norris Reuben Stowell was born near Portland Maine, on the 20th of December, 1817. His parents moved to New Hampshire, where Norris R. lived till twenty-one years of age. He went to California, for the purpose of gold-mining, but was obliged to return after one year on account of declining health. He came to Monticello, Minnesota, in 1865, where he has lived to this writing. He married Mrs. Olive Hamlet in 1842. Their children are, Nicholas R. and Joseph N. Norris Reuben STOWELL 1817- Portland, Cumberland county, ME Additional Notes Migration Steps After he was Twenty-one he engaged in Coasting from Maine to New Hampshire and went to the West Indies on a voyage. Married 1842 to Mrs. Olive Hamlet. Children are Nicholas R. and Joseph N. Source: History of Upper Mississippi Valley (pub1881) at Seattle Public Library qR977.6H629 to NH in abt 1820 to CA in 1852 to Monticello, Wright County, MN in 1865