This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/QcSBAIB/50.1.1 Message Board Post: Nancy I am also a Towell (though not Adkins) researcher. There is a Samuel Towell m. to a Nancy on the Colorado Co., Texas 1870 census. Did they have a son James? I think your Towells may be related to mine. Mine also born in Tennessee. Willing to share information. Write to me.