Re: Thomas Oliver Swagerty
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delores butcher 2/03/02
Yes, I am Vinnie Ream Scott's and Keather Hosea Cowan's granddaughter.My father is Ellis Woodrow Cowan who married Velma Ellen Shelton.I have two sisters, Shirley Anita Cowan Sears born Nov 28, 1942 and a sister, Connie Elaine Cowan Kovach born Jan 6, 1946.My whole name is Karen Dee Cowan Cromie, and I was born April 25, 1947.My father was born November 7, 1913 and my mother was born July 6, 1920.They were married in Paris, Texas.My father passed away on October 13th (can't remember the year) about 10 years ago in Pangburn, Arkansas.My mother is still living and resides in Pangburn Arkansas.It was amazing how much he looked like Grandpa Keather Cowan before he passed away.
I live in Milpitas, California.(I love Moab, Utah.It is so very beautiful there and I love the Monolith, towering rock formations there.I've been there several of times and always enjoyed that area.Ogden is also nice, but I much prefer the Moab area....sorry cuz!)I actually hate living in Milpitas and hopefully one of these days when I retire, I can get out of California and out into the countryside somewhere away from the hustle and bustle of Silicone Valley.I've always felt this real urge to be out on a farm and have farm fresh eggs and chickens and a huge garden and an old fashioned flower garden with the flowers all in rows planted like a vegetable garden like Grandma used to have them.
I have a copy of a Swagerty Family Reunion list dated in the 1930's that I got from my Great Aunt Tina Scott while she was still living...and for the life of me right now cannot remember her married names.She lived in Shawnee, Oklahoma and I do not know if she is still living or not.She was a hairdresser, even though her hands were badly deformed and scarred as a child when she ran into a pot belly stove and burnt them badly.If she is still living, she would be very old.My Grandfather, Hosea Keether Cowan was a farmer and had the most beautiful and biggest milk cows and pigs I have ever seen--Old Yeller and Spot were my favorite cows.They trapped me in a crabapple tree once and wouldn't let me down because I was feeding them the apples.The cows chased me all the way to the gate and Grandma held it open so I could get away from the cows.Old Yeller had some pretty mean horns too!Grandpa also always had a wonderful garden with hugh firm, sugar-sweet, melt in your mouth watermelons, great corn and tomatoes, new potatoes, etc.Grandma Cowan (Ada Maddox, his second wife) had a beautiful flower garden and made absolutely the best huckleberry pie I've ever had.She used to say when Dad was growing up, he'd take one piece out for everybody else and eat the rest of the pie himself in one sitting.She always had to make at least two huckleberry pies...that is if anybody else wanted to get any.She also taught me to tat and crochette.
My real grandmother, Vinnie Ream Scott (I have a picture of her and she was very pretty) died about 1920 at the same time that a flu epidemic swept across our fair country and wiped out entire families.She had a miscarriage only months before dying.It would have been my father's fourth sibling.She had recovered from a bout of the flu, went to help a neighbor whose family was ill with the flu, was re-exposed and died, leaving three children behind and my grandfather to raise them.He remarried about a year after her death to Ada Maddox, and they had four more children.
My father's brothers were Nobel Exodus Cowan, (my father), Sidwell Wesley Cowan--in that order Nobel being the oldest--from the Scott/Cowan Marriage.(All brothers are deceased now)From the Cowan/Maddox marriage there came:Maxine Alice Cowan Bowlan, Imogene Cowan Satterwhite/?, Pattie Cowan (Cash) and J.M. Cowan, the baby.And JM is a man....and that is his name.Those initials stand for nothing.His real name is JM.I had always thought as a child that the initials stood for Josiah Murray because that is what my Great Grandfather's name was....Josiah Murray Cowan.I recently found out that it is very probable (and may Cowan Researchers agree)that my Cowan line connects back to David Cowan who married Mary Fleming....one of the four brothers that emigrated to the colonies, and through John Cowan, son of David and Mary, who was in Rowan, North Carolina.It is very probable (and is believed by many Cowan researchers) that these emigrating Cowans fought in the Revolutionar War, along with a lot of my other ancestors who were already here by that time. I'm still trying to prove all this and find something in writing somewhere (besides David Cowan's will) that substantiates this information.
If you want dates or more, etc., please let me know and I will be glad to share what I have.
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