Sorry, I don't recognize the name McCOWS as one of my surnames.
Wish I could be more help.
Melba
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Rhodes 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: 1956 letter abt Robbins/Boyd family


Melba, I also have ancestors who were born in SC and migrated to GA , AL
and
>TN. They were MCDOWS. Perhaps you had some of my family in your group. Gail
>Rhodes
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Melba J Clark" 
>To: 
>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:46 PM
>Subject: 1956 letter abt Robbins/Boyd family
>
>
 I know this sounds like an Alabama list post, but since they came to
>Alabama
 from South Carolina, I thought someone there might be able to help.  They
 are presumed to have married in SC, since both are indicated to have been
 born there and their first child was also born there.
 Melba
 _____________________________
 Hello, Listers,  I need your help on this:

 In the ALABAMA RECORDS, Jefferson Co., Vol. 112, pages 27-28, transcripts
 from the court records about the sale of the land of Michael Robbins ,
 dec'd.  On the same page is a quote from a letter from Mrs. A.G. Norman
in
 1956 about the parents of Michael's wife, Mary.  The quote is posted
below
 the following questions that I would like anwered if possible.

 QUESTIONS:
 1]  Does anyone know the answer to Mrs. Norman's question, "I've wondered
 which BOYD he was" printed there?
 2]  Does anyone know about the "biographies of the ROBBINS family in Ala
 counties" of which she spoke?
 3]  Or is there any of Mrs. Norman's "collection" as she called it, her
 research results and/or notes available for study?
 4]  Who was her aunt (dec'd before 1956) who married a descendant of
>Michael
 Robbins ?

 QUOTE FROM HER LETTER:  "I was interested in this:  JAMES BOYD, Rev sol.
 born N.C. 1793, Died, Newton Co. Miss. 1853.  Had lived in Jefferson and
 other Ala counties. Moved to Kemper Co, Miss. 1833.  In biographies of
the
 ROBBINS family in Ala., they say MICHAEL ROBBINS--in Ala. 1820--married
>MARY
 BOYD in S.C., the daughter of a Rev Soldier, who lived in Jefferson Co
Ala
>.
 I've wondered which BOYD he was,  My aunt, who married a descendant of
>that
 MICAHEL ROBBINS, died, and her children seem not interested in their
 ancestors, but I'd like to know about them for my own collection (From
>Mrs.
 A.G. Norman, Birmingham, Ala. Feb. 1956)" END OF QUOTE

 ONE MORE QUESTION:
 James and Sarah Sloan Boyd have been stated by many researchers as Mary's
 parents for quite some time.  Is there ANY documentation for this
>asumption?

 Thanks,
 Melba