I made my way to Marshall County when I found a third cousin through an inquiry on the Washington PA site. His documentation of the family he was seeking looked quite familiar, so I pulled out the census records for Joseph DOWLER in 1850. Sure enough, I in Columbus, Ohio had found a relative in San Jose CA! Shortly after that he emailed me about a great cemetery listing on the Marshall site. From then on, I was hooked. Mother's maternal grandmother was Mary Jane DOWLER Holmes, b.1844 in- as she apparently made quite clear- VA, not WV. Of course that was so, given her birthdate. The family moved to West Middletown about 1852. The Dowlers had traveled from Baltimore in the late 1790's to Brownsville PA, moving to Ohio/Marshall in about 1809. I am most interested in learning about the family in that early period. Peg [email protected]