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From: Linne Gravestock <>
Subject: Re: [BOWLES] Malinda C. Bowles, Barren Co., KY, 1839
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:57:12 -0700
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Chuck, what you're looking at here is a list someone kept in
1838 and 1839 on the stray animals which were caught by people other
than their owners in Barren Co., KY. If you went to a designated
location, say a local city hall or courthouse (or in the olden days a
community meeting place) there might be a book or ledger that someone
kept denoting when and where the animal was found, what kind of
animal it was and who had it.
The person who lost a horse or cow hoped to find a notation
about their animal so they could go claim it. The person who found
it hoped that the owner would pay him for the cost of feeding the
animal and perhaps a broken fence.
Now, farmers and ranchers register their cattle brands, so
the finder knows whose cattle wandered onto their property, and the
owner knows who might be keeping his cattle illegally.
So if we read this "Strays Report" below, we see that on 12
November 1839 Malinda C. Bowles found an animal (maybe the original
document will say more) on White Oak Creek. For modern researchers,
this might be a clue to indicate where you could look on a map for
her property in Barren Co., Kentucky. Old maps can commonly be had
through the local libraries or historical societies, or a university
or state historical society. These maps can often tell you who her
neighbors were---who were sometimes her relatives or in-laws, leading
you to more research.
We've discussed Malinda Holtzclaw and her husband John F.
(Jacky) Bowles quite a bit in the earlier years of the Bowles list.
You can read our discussions by searching through the archives at
this address:

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

In "Body" put in the name that you're looking for, since
you're looking for it in the body of anyone's message who has posted
to the Bowles list. In this case, it's Malinda .
Leave "Subject" and "From" blank.
In "List" put Bowles
In "Date" put 1997. (And when you're finished searching
through 1997, put in 1998 and so on up to the present.)

To our newcomers: you can always go to any list's archives
to search for information on the ancestor you're researching, whether
you're a member of that list or not. When you join a surname list,
one of the most productive things you can do is to go to that list's
archives to see what might have been said about your ancestor before
you joined the list.

Chuck, if you do definitly find that this Malinda is your
ancestor, please come back and tell us on the list. Many people may
be connected to this line. You might have a lot of "cousins"!
Very best wishes,
Linne





>Linne, I am looking at # 12, info on Malinda C Bowles. what is this
>info actually, still trying to figure out what this is. I am
>interested in this Malinda because if this is the right Malinda
>bowles that was married to John Bowles then I am related. This is
>the line I am tracing.
>
>--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Linne Gravestock <> wrote:
>
>From: Linne Gravestock <>
>Subject: [BOWLES] Malinda C. Bowles, Barren Co., KY, 1839
>To:
>Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 3:34 AM
>
>=====================================================================
>Match: Bowles
>Source:
>From: Sandi Gorin <>
>Subject: [SCKY] STRAYS REPORT 1838 & 1839
>
>
>1838:
>27 Jan - John JAMES, near Three Springs Meeting House
>27 Jan - Nat CRAM?, between the lower end of Big Blue Spring Grove
>and the Hart
> Co line.
>5 Feb - Horatio SHORT - no location shown.
>19 Feb - Andrew MARSHALL, on Fallen Timber Creek
>19 Mar - John KING, near the Three Fordks
>17 Aug - John GLAZEBROOK, on the Louisville & Bowling Green Rd, 2 miles
>above
> BELL's Tavern
>15 Oct - Benjamin PEDEN, 5 miles S of Glasgow on Fallen Timber
>18 Nov - John TWYMAN - 7 miles NE of Glasgow
>18 Nov - Neri BROWN - 7 miles NW of Glasgow
>19 Nov - Charles BURNETT - near the old Bowling Green Road abt 8
>miles W of Glasgow
>19 Nov - James JAMESON, near the Blue Spring Grove
>20 Nov - Mary WILSON - 2 miles NE of Edmonton
>27 Nov - Henry STAPLES - 5 miles NW of Glasgow
>3 Dec - John CHANDLER, between BELL's Tavesrn & Mammoth Cave
>6 Dec - James OLDHAM, on the old Saltswork Road from mouth of Little Barren to
> Tompkinsville, 6 miles S of Lafayette
>6 Dec - Samuel LEE, Indian Camp Branch of Peters Creek
>8 Dec - Burket HUFFMAN - on Cook's Creek.
>22 Dec - Wm BEARD, 1 mile NW of Edmonton on road from Burksville to
>Munfordville
>24 Dec - David WATT, on Glovers Creek
>28 Dec - Richard SHIRLEY, near Dripping Spring Meeting House
>31 Dec - Martha YOUNG, 1 mile S of Edmonton
>
>1839:
>1 Jan - Wm H COLE, 3 miles N of Glasgow near the Louisville Rd.
>1 Jan - Wilson RYAN, 6 miles W of Glasgow
>5 Jan - T J DICKERSON - no location shown
>8 Jan - Dan CURD, on road from Glasgow to Scottsville
>8 Jan - George OLDHAM, near head of Falling Timber Creek
>30 Jan - Robert PIPER, near Blue Spring Meeting House
>1 Feb - Wm OLDHAM, Sinks of Beaver Creek
>23 Feb - John COX, near Lafayette
>29 Mar - Fielding F HOLDER, 2 miles W of Prewitts Knob
>10 Oct - Wm YOUNG, on Fallen Timber
>12 Nov - Malinda C BOWLES, on White Oak Creek
>18 Nov - Heasten SHERLOCK, on Glovers Creek
>24 Nov - James WILSHER, on Buck Creek
>28 Nov - John FORBIS, near Frederick
>28 Nov - Andrew H BROWNLEE, near Frederick
>29 Nov - Wm HAYS, at John COMB's old place
>2 Dec - A N H COLE, on Big Barren River near Cole's Warehouse
>4 Dec - Isaac N EDWARDS, near lower end of Blue Spring Grove
>10 Dec - Isaac M SCRIVENER, on road from Glasgow to Hartsville
>16 Dec - Andrew MARSHALL, on Fallen Timber Creek 6 miles S of Glasgow
>20 Dec - W J WOOD, near the Blue Spring Meeting House
>24 Dec - Phillip CARTER, 1 mile S of Absolom HUGHS
>25 Dec - Mary WILSON, 2 miles E of Edmonton
>27 Dec - Wm PARKER, on Beaver Creek
>30 Dec - Miles WILKINSON, near Skaggs Creek Post Office
>
>To be continued next week. Sandi
>
>
>
>SCKY Archives:
>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky
>Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren
>Sandi's Puzzlers:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html
>GGPublishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/
>
>
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