Subject: Re: Mary Hilton CALHOUN & James Joshua BOWLING, married TN, KY
or IL 1840-1860?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:51:48 -0600
From: valoriez(a)zimres.net
Gatewayed Message Board Post, Classification: Query
Surnames: Calhoun, Bowling - Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QNH.2ACEB/1021.1
Message Board Post ### Please CLICK THE LINK to Respond ### :
Ed, a search of The Illinois Marriage Index at
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/cgi-bin/archives/marriage.s
yielded no hits for bowling/calhoun. A search of 'bowling' in the TN
Marriage database on Ancestry got 103 hits, but no James marrying a
Calhoun.
These look like your people, though:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cliffbowlin&id=I...
Given Name: James Joshua
Surname: Bowling
Sex: M
Birth: 1828 in Greene County, Tennessee
Death: BEF 1880 in Washington County, Arkansas
Occupation: Farmer 1860 Franklin County, Illinois
Census: 1860 Franklin County, Illinois
Census: 1870 Washington County, Arkansas
Father: Joshua Bowling b: 1804 in Greene County, Tennessee
Mother: Mariah\Martha "Patsy" Smith b: 1801 in North Carolina
Marriage 1 Mary Hilton Calhoun b: 1828 in Sumner County, Tennessee
Married: ABT 1848 in Sumner County, Tennessee (Poss)
There are children listed also. Good luck -- the poster may be your
cousin!