Hello, I am brand new to this list, but not to genealogy. I am researching a 'hard to find' ancestry, apparently. I am looking for and researching any and all Rowseys, and any variations of that spelling. I descend from Thomas Jefferson Rowsey b. ca. 1810. He was b. in Va. and in Amherst on the 1850, 60, and 70 census. His son from his first marriage, James Lenorad Rowsey was my Great Great Grandfather, who ser and died in the War Between the States, Confederate. I am looking for anyone researching these lines. I loose the mother of this family below, Lucy after 1870's Amherst Census, and the daughters. The sons went to West Virginia before 1870, married and stayed there. As far as I can find none of the girls or the mother came to WV. I want to find them, as to what happened to them. I would also like to find a grave site if there is one for James L. Rowsey. He died in 1862 while serving the CSA, and died at home, in Amherst as that was near where he was fighting. In 1860 in Amherst Co. Va, Peddlar's Mill where James Leonard Rowsey lived, the census stated... family #278/276 James L. was 29 yrs. old. Lucy, wife was 25 yrs old ( Lucy's maided name was Curry) children C.H., son, age 7 --- This was Charles Henry E.P. daughter, age 3 George T., son age 2 Sarah , daughter age 8/12 Also living with the family was James L.'s brother George P. Rowsey. On the 1870 Census, one daughter is missing, this was E.P. She would have been about 13 or so by then. She could have been married, or working outside of the family and not living at home or she could have died. There was another child who was born about 1860 or 61, her name was Julia. Anyone researching of knowing anything of the Rowsey lines I would be interested. Some other family names: Rowsey, Peyton, Clay, Taylor, Curry, Thomas, Meadows, Walker, Workman, Bias, Fowler, Curtis, Nelson, French, and Many more.....