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Terry Mason's Family History Site50,586 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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WILL: Will Book Z, Vol. 1, pg 437 in Lancaster county archives. Lists husband's name.
Information from Cindy Stamps to T.Mason on 1 Oct 2007. "William Cowan was born about 1811, according to an old songbook that their son, Stephen, wrote the dates and names of their children in. He is in Franklin Co. AL with his brothers, among them Riley Cowan, in the 1840's. William Cowan came to Titus Co. TX, along with a large group of family, among them his brothers, and died shortly after the 1850 census. He was married to Sarah Hickey, who married again after his death."
"In the 1840 Franklin Co AL Census, William Cowan and Riley Cowan are found on p. 232. Riley Cowan is a distinctive enough name that can be pretty easily identified. Wm. has 1 son under 5, that would be John H; 1 son 5 to 10; that would be Jas Riley; he is male 20 to 30; 1 female unmder 5; that would be Polly; 1 female 20 to 30; that would be his wife Sarah Hickey; 1 female 50 to 60; that would be his widowed mother, Sarah Keith Cowan. on p. 226 is Wade Blassingame, father of Louisa Blassingame, wife of Jas Harvey Cowan, another of Sarah Keith Cowan's sons. They all moved on into Titus Co. TX. Sarah Keith Cowan died before the 1850 census. William died bef 7 Oct 1856 when his wife settled his estate and married Isaac Robinson. "