The funny part of the whole BOWLING thing was that Samuel BOWLING who m Abigail CHOIUCE was, in fact, a veteran of the American Revolution without making up parents for him. Charlene REEDS-EBELING Genealogical Direct Lines: DAD'S SIDE: REEDS, PORTER, WEAVER(Tilman), RICHARDSON, BOWLING (Group 7), WOOD, ISRAEL, CRAIG, LAIRD, HACKLEY, BALL, CORBIN, ELTONHEAD, TAYLOE, WILLIAMSON, UNDERWOOD, KEENE, WITHERS, MAUZY, CONYERS, WITHERS, KEENE, DUNCAN (Joseph and Lydia-VA), SHIPPEY, MOTT, PIGG, BELL (Stone Church and Roger-Orange Co., Va), BEARD/BAIRD, CARTER (Giles and Theodorick line), WEBB, WADDILL, MICHAUX, CUNNINGHAM---VA --Plus WHITE, HAGERTY, FLATLEY--Green Bay MOMS SIDE: CORNELL/CORNWELL (NY), COONS/KUNTZ, ANSCHICKS, BECKER, STEDMAN, MORSE, REITZ, BUTZ, KNAUSS, DIEHL, PATTERMAN, THULL, MEHAN, ROMIG, CARL, SIEGFRIED In a message dated 9/6/2011 4:03:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Charlene, Thank you for the whole story. The short version being that one Sarah Sullivan Ervin was a fraud, and simply manufactured "evidence" so her wealthy clients could get into the DAR in the early 1900s. She wasn't alone in that game.