John Cowden and Margaret Nelson

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Husband John Cowden ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 1758 - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Jun 1827 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Washington Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - U. P. Church, Hickory, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: John Cowden (1735-1776) 6 7
         Mother: Mary Reynolds (      -      ) 8

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       Marriage: 16 Nov 1820 9

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   Other Spouse: Anna Sloan (Abt 1765-1802) 1 10 - 1786 or 2 Jan 1787 11

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   Other Spouse: Esther Struthers (1772-1819) 12 - 29 Jan 1805 12

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Wife Margaret Nelson ¹²

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 May 1850
         Buried:  - U. P. Church, Hickory, Mt. Pleasant Twp, Washington Co, PA

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - John Cowden

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He was born in eastern Pennsylvania of Scotch-Irish parents, who had settled in the state several years prior to his birth. He married and soon afterward moved to Washington County. They settled on a farm in Mt. Pleasant township, a part of the original George Washington survey, where the remainder of their lives was passed.

"When John Cowden and Annie Sloan came to Washington County their oldest child, Mary, was carried in a wicker basket fastened to a horse's pack saddle and John, the second child, was an infant in his mother's arms." This would fix their advent about 1790.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 371.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1315.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 144.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 67.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 67.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 143.

7 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 20.

8 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22.

9 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 80.

10 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 119.

11 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 68, 80.

12 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 68.