Harlan, I was raised at Carrolls and know exactly where Owl Creek is. If you head down this way, let me know ... I'll be happy to meet with you and take you there. (I'm leaving on a trip the middle or end of next week and will be gone a couple of months, but otherwise should be home.) Shirley Longview :) Harlan Pittelkau wrote: > > The property tax records prior to 1889 indicate that they lived about > 2.5 miles NE of Carrolls on one of two 40 acre parcels. In addition, > the 1900 Census indicates that the family lived in the Owl Creek > Precinct. Owl Creek runs through the most northern of the two 40 acre > parcels and is probably where their home was.