This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZYVBAEB/141.194.195.204.205.207 Message Board Post: Hester Ann Rodgers Cowey ("Sister") was my grandfather's sister, and her parents were Charles Wm Cowey b. 9/18/1836 in Martin Co, NC and Hester Ann Adams b. 6/8/1840 in Marion Co, IL. (You have her surname as Nedem, which was Charles Wm's younger brother, who was with them during at least one Census.) The younger H.A. m. William Hugh Robbins, Sr about 1889 - I have dates, names of children, etc., and I have a Robbins contact that can fill in any details you need. William (called Uncle Billy) had a son James Allen Robbins b. 6/25/1881 by his 1st wife Nancy Ann Stringfield. James Allen m. H.A.'s baby sister Mollie Bert Cowey. Off the subject, Nancy Ann Stringfield's stepfather was Dr. Wm B. Thompson, pioneer physician in the Nockenut, TX area. He is said to have come to TX with Robert E. Lee during the Mexican War in 1836 and stayed on.