Hi Descendant,
I know I promised you five ancestors that I'd like to meet and the reasons why. So, here goes. I'm going to pick number two from the list on my last post (you can find it here in case you didn't bookmark it).
Let me start by saying that number 2, Richard "Dick" Stowers (1796-1875) may or may not be kin. Before you let yourself think it, he's not a brick wall. I can find his siblings (at least some of them) and his parents. Coleman Asberry is my foam wall. I call it foam because I don't think it will take much to come crashing through it if you or I can just find the records. The connections are linked by very good circumstantial evidence. I am able to trace Dick, as he was known locally, back to Ann Asbury (1750- ) and Samuel Stowers (1740-1786) of the Revolution (the one for Independence from England) and beyond. Ann and Samuel Stowers were his grandparents.
Ann is an interesting find. Folks researching her on Ancestry.com can't decide if she's named Ann, Anna, or Susannah or the one that really cracks me up, Anna Susannah. Nothing like being decisive. I'm surprised that if Ann is her name she would have a sister named Anne. This second Ann (1753-1810) married Robert Lyne/Lynn/ Lynne. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and maybe you will have to do that. All I know is that I'm interested in Anna/Susannah/Whatever Her Name Really Is because she was Dick Stowers grandmother. Proven. It's a fact. Take it to the bank. Of her siblings, I can place Thomas, Frances (female known as "Franky") and the descendants of Joseph Asbury in Pendleton, Bourbon, and Harrison Counties. Our dear grandfather, Coleman (1780-1859) was also living near and with some of those folks and their descendants who lived in Pendleton County. He interacted with them by having them as witnesses on important paperwork, borrowing money from them, and more. Again, all circumstantial, I understand but I hope you agree, compelling. Heck, Grandpa is likely living with Dick in the 1840 census. Look at it and see what you think. On this basis, I say Dick Stowers is related somehow. My personal opinion, worth nothing, is that Coleman's father is Joseph and his mother the first wife that history has forgotten. See what you think.
Anyway, here goes why Dick Stowers is a relative that I'm interested in talking with. (If you can't read one of the documents, just click on it. I checked it out and they can easily be read.)
