Posted on: Amherst County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Amherst/734 Surname: Wright, Ellis, Nowlin ------------------------- James Nowlin appears in Amherst County 1785 tax list. Also a James Nowlin m. Susannah Wright 1793. A genealogy (Nowlin-Stone)has Rosina Wright as mother to Burwell Nowlin whose father died while young. Burwell (b. 1796 Lynchburg)was apprenticed to an uncle as a cooper, but he ran away to Gallia Co., OH. Susan Nowlin appears in the 1840 census index for southern district, Bedford County. Can anyone help with sorting these out? Pete