This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RgB.2ACE/645.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In Monroe Co., TN Court Records, 1820-1870, transcribed by Reba Boyer; Mowry people mentioned in records as a friend or witness and then a group of German church members. I am sorry, but this is all that I could find in my books. You might email Jo Stakely at the Madisonville Library to get a copy of any of the records below. She will charge a fee to make copies. In the summary, their names are just mentioned. Don't know if they would be of any help to you. Jo Stakely mplibgenealogy@bellsouth.net Will Book B # 39 ARMSTEAD BLACKWELL, exec. 9 Mar 1847. To wife Lucinda; to son Samuel. Exec: friend Adam Mowry. Wit; David Mowry, Reuben Russell. Signed by a mark. Probated Feb. 1863. Record BK p. 545. In Death Notices in Athens Post Pub. at Athens, TN VI -312, 15 Sep 1854; Tribute of respect by Masonic Lodge at Madisonville for James P. Minis, who died in middle age surrounded by a loving comanion and dutiful children, and for Dr. William Glass, who died in vigor of yourth, the only support of an already bereaved mother. Tribute of respect by Madisonville Sons of Temperance for John Mowry, who died in his youth. Petitions to Tennessee Legislature; Undated, but in the 1841 petitions, Petition of the congregation of Germans who cannot understand the English language and who have settled on Bat Creek, who are destitute of a minister who can preach in their own language, and pray for land for a minister; signed by John Mowry, Abraham Buck, David Mowry, Adam Mowry, Henry Kyle, Jacob Kyle, John Gardner, Peter Michael, Peter Moser, John Kyle, Daniel Buck, Jacob Buck, Michael Gardner, Jacob Sheets, Jacob Cook, Henry Sheets. There are also thiery women who belong to this church. John Mowrey in listed as one of the inhabitants of Monroe Co. as early as 1827 and the others by 1830. Our marriage records begin at 1838. If they married in Monroe Co. before 1838, the records have been lost by fires and destruction during the Civil War.