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Everything works off of SURNAME pages... Cox , Story, Bowles, Maggard, Smith, Johnson , Matthews , Strother/Strawther, Nichols, McCoy, Ranes, Burch, Webster, Davis, Dyson, Tennison, Gresham, Parr, Gee, Bennett, Baugh, Ackert (so far).  And surnamed pages from other Bethel friends & families:  Halcomb  Vaughn  Carter  Kopp 

Neil Cox's Guide-page...

(Here's my wiki-bio page -- more than you'd ever want to know, LOL.)

I'm exploring the possibilities of at least using a portion of the Bethel wiki somewhat as Glenna Mosgrove used her book to reproduce the history of Bethel and its many affiliated people.  Notice that she included some family genealogies, because our families are often so integrally intertwined with the church life.  I'm thinking that very possibly this wiki could serve to pick up the trail, so to speak, from where Glenna left off in 1948.  And because of the internet's new-found power to help recreate the historical trail, perhaps the Bethel wiki might even add to the pre-1948 history... especially if it helps us flesh-out our various family genealogies.

That being said, remember... there are WAY BETTER websites for genealogies, than this wiki.  But perhaps none will be simpler for you to actually PARTICIPATE in.  Thus there's a trade-off.  So let's use the wiki to at least begin... and then we'll link to more formalized genealogical sites as they continue to grow and prove themselves useful for the task at hand.

Disclaimer:   I know very little about the official howto's of documenting genealogy... so what you see below is pretty much 'free form' until I become better-instructed.  And since this is a wiki, ANYONE (with the password) is free to assist me, by correcting/improving my format or detail.

A great work on the Nichols-Bowles genealogy has already been compiled by Jon Huffman.

Since much of this line came from Barren County, Kentucky (Glasgow area), some very helpful sites to visit...

• Dawn Goodrum's pages re several key families from that area, and includes some very colorful historical accounts.
• Here's another neat page of Barren County stories, legends, etc... including Winifred Benham, a witch?
• Bowles Cemetery, Barren County, KY
• WeRelate.org wiki - Barren County
• Barren County Research Links (great)
• Barren County Archives
• Family Histories 
• Floyd Collins, Tragedy of Sand Cave (in 1925).  (My Grandpa Elmer Cox told of traveling there to help, while my grandmother was pregnant with my dad.)
• This page shows TWO 'Bowles Cemetery' locations near Glasgow, KY.  (Click the 'L' to see the 2 Google-map locations.)
• Here's one of them on WikiMapia.org -- off of Potato Cave Rd (near the junction of Mt. Hermon Rd x Tompkinsville Rd.)
• Here's the other one, on WikiMapia.org - near Vernon School Rd.
• This page shows FIVE 'Bowles Cemetery' locations in Barren County.
• And here's Deweese Cemetery... which says 'also known as Bowles Cemetery'.
• And here's a 'Bowles Cemetery Near Beckton'.
• Headstone photos from Bowles Cemetery on Vernon School Rd (and other cemeteries too).  (a number of familiar family names at this site)
• Many more headstone photos from Bowles Cemetery
• Wikimapia.org geo-page for Barren County.  You can zoom in and mark places YOU know about !   
• McCoy page... mentions some people buried in Bowles Cemetery.  Photographs of some McCoys.
• Cox , Bell, Bowles, McCoy, etc.-- some south/central Kentucky researchers, email addresses, etc.... re some familiar family-names... including Barren County.
• Burial record for Hatcher & Sadler funeral home in Glasgow... which includes June 1932 "John Delmer Cox"... presumably, Grandpa's brother, who died young.
• Barren Co. Marriages... mid-1800's... includes Nathan Bowles marrying Francis Matthews on Dec.12, 1825.  And mentions an 'America S. Bowles' who married Eli Owens in 1843.
• Here's a page of death certificates of familiar-family names... including at least one certificate signed by Botts, M.D.  (Remember, death certificates have a lot of historical data on them.)
• Here a great link to a 2-volume publication with 1700 pages & 1000 photographs... I have a pdf copy of this publication - awesome. 
• New Providence Church, McAfee, KY... is the planting church of Southport Presbyterian Church.  (near Silvia KY).  Cecil Hill, Sam Phillips is a genealogist. 
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Other Genealogical Resources:

• Genealogy.com (Cox Forum, for instance)
• FamilySearch.org (LDS?) 
• List of genealogical SEARCH sites.  Also see his main-page... he has some Barren Co. genealogical ties.
• CousinsConnect.com seems to search a number of other genealogical search-engines at once.
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