Andrew Thompson Cowden and Sarah Anderson "Sadie" McKnight

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Husband Andrew Thompson Cowden ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Sep 1855 3
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           Died: 28 Apr 1899 3
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         Father: Mark K. Cowden (1827/1827-      ) 4 5
         Mother: Jane Thompson (      -      ) 6 7

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       Marriage: 20 Dec 1880 3

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Wife Sarah Anderson "Sadie" McKnight ^{2 8}

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         Father: H. Owen McKnight (1822-      ) 9 10 11 12
         Mother: Margaret Welch (1828-1871) 8 12

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Children

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1 F Mira Cowden ²

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           Died: 1 Dec 1900 - Cameron, Marshall Co, WV 3
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2 M Owen Cowden ²

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3 M Mark Cowden ²

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4 M [Unk] Cowden

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Thompson Cowden

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near Hickory, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Washington Co, PA; Cameron, Marshall Co, WV

He was engaged as a foreman of the oil field for the Wheeling Gas Co. On April 28th, 1899, a gas well upon which he was at work ignited and in the explosion and conflagration that followed Mr. Cowden lost his life.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 372, 1207.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 101, 170.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 101.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 372, 514.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 97.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 514.

7 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 100.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1207.

9 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 712.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 734, 1207.

11 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1226.

12 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 169.