This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stowell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QAQBAEB/446 Message Board Post: Samuel Stowell m. Mary Farrow David Stowell m. Mary Stedman Nathaniel Stowell m. Margaret Trowbridge Oliver Stowell m. Abagail Strickland Loren Stowell m. Mary Matilda Reed Marcus Lafayette m. Mary Elizabeth Fuller Albert Lafayette STOWELL m. Anna Percis LOWE Harry S. STOWELL m. Hilda Dolores "Bama" LAVENBURG Truman Jack STOWELL m. Pearl Ann MARTIN Starr STOWELL m. Charles Frederick ELLIOTT Liane Elliot Can anyone explain why Marcus and Albert have the middle name of Lafayette? Are then named after the Cival war era French man? That one has always had me wondering! [email protected]