This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: stowell, autry, roark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QAQBAEB/243.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Grandfathers name was William Arthur Stowell b. Aug 23, 1866 in Jasper County, Iowa and died November 9, 1954 in Los Angeles, CA. His Fathers name was Ransford B. Stowell and Mother was Sarah E. Autry. He had several brothers and sisters, Giles, David, Hattie, Lillian. They lived around Morrill County and Scottsbluff County Nebraska. I have the census record for my Grandfather William and Grandmother Edith and Mother Betty Jean in San Diego from 1933. The names you mention are very similar but I'm not sure they are the same as mine. I'm wondering if there is more than one Ransford Stowell with a son named William?