Lou Ann, I feel our pain. This is one difficult family to sort out. Thank God for the 1844 chancery suit in Madison County, VA to settle the estate of Henry-3 Towles, the Younger. I've never really dug into the Richard Vawter line. Hope you'll be working on them on the ancestry tree. I am showing eight children for this couple named in the suit. However, while it is frequently written that Oliver-3 Towles (Stokley-2, Henry-1) had no children, I am fairly convinced he had several children. That's another story for another list. The over-lapping Olivers and Stokeleys -- many of whom were attorneys leaving sundry records in of all places Spotsylvania County--is mind numbing. Craig On Oct 8, 2011, at 8:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/8/11 9:26:54 AM, [email protected] writes: > > >> That's a good question. I think the children of Stokely-2 Towles >> populated about half of the South East and good part of Texas and Missouri. The >> descendants of his brother Henry-2 Towles remain in the Northern Neck to this >> day. > Yes, besides my direct line who was daughter Frances married to Richard > Vawter, three more of the children married into my cousin lines and kept on > doing so on down the tree. > Lou Ann