Reynolds Cowden

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Husband Reynolds Cowden ¹

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           Born: 29 Mar 1802 1
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           Died: 5 Sep 1863 2
         Buried:  - Oak Spring Cemetery, near Canonsburg, Washington Co, PA

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         Father: John Cowden (1758-1827) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Anna Sloan (Abt 1765-1802) 3 7

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General Notes: Husband - Reynolds Cowden

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"There are several stories about Reynolds, who was somewhat under the care of all of his friends as well as under the guardianship of John Berry, according to the appointment of his father's will. He was a very good natured person and in many respects shrewd, but incapacitated from assuming all the responsibilities of life. He was everywhere a privileged character and his manner of life was after his own choice. He had a great liking for going barefoot. He could stamp out a thistle with his bare heel. He would run from the house to the barn and harness up a horse when there was snow on the ground without having his shoes on. Frosted toes had no terrors for him. He, like some others of his day, would carry his shoes to church, putting them on only when he was near the place of worship. There was a matter told by someone and whether this is just the way of it is uncertain. He was out with a drover on some trip, and had a little money with him, which the drover persuaded him to hide under a fence rail until they would return. Upon looking for it on the home trip it was gone, doubtless with the drover. Another incident, which all my uncles remembered well, was this: Reynolds was picking cherries and slipped from his foothold, but, in falling, grasped a limb with his hands and hung suspended about ten feet from the ground. Such a stir among the branches and such a rain of cherries drew the attention of his companions. Reynolds, realizing that his hour had come, cried out: 'I leave all my money to Uncle Isaac's childer,' and remaining no longer in suspense about so momentous a matter, dropped, and without further delay found himself sitting solidly and sorrowfully upon the grass beneath. The jolt did no damage but it overturned his benevolent intentions, for the first words he uttered were: 'I take it all back.' Thus at least the will and its codicil have been placed upon record in the family traditions." [AKCWF, 88]

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

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 90.

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

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

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

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

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