Father: John LT COWELL, b. ABT 1833, Pennsylvania or Alabama
This family is on the 1870 Census in Greene County Boone township with another son William. Additionally we see CJ's name is Charlotte. Strangely , John says he was born in Alabama and Charlotte's birthplace is given as Tennessee. Perhaps in the boarding house in 1880, the person who answered the door guessed on their birthplaces. However, on later census John and Charlotte's children either don't know where they were born or they put the words US on several census'.s On son Albert's death certificate his wife Julia does not even know the name of his parents. And on Barnabus's death certificate he gives his parents birthplace as both being born in Illinois. In Charlottes obit it clarifies birthplace as Illinois even giving the county as Clinton County and her marriage to John Cowell In Randolph County Illinois saying they moved to Greene County Missouri in 1866 and then to Lawrence County Missouri in 1893.Needless to say all other info fits so this is the same family in 1870 and 1880 Census. .1880 Census in the home of Swinney Family see below J. A. SWINNEY <Self M Male W 23 KY Farmer KY KY Sarah SWINNEY < Wife M Female W 22 KY Keeping House KY KY R. G. SWINNEY <. Son S Male W 10 KY KY KY Alice SWINNEY Dau S Female W 8 KY KY KY Robert SWINNEY < Son S Male W 5 KY KY KY Lula SWINNEY < Dau S Female W 3 KY KY KY John COWELL < Other M Male W 47 PA Teamster PA PA C. J. COWELL <. Other M Female W 46 IL Keeping House KY IN B. F. COWELL Other S Male W 13 MO At Home PA IL J. B. COWELL <> Other S Male W 11 MO PA IL Mary P. COWELL Other S Female W 9 MO PA IL Albert I. COWELL > Other S Male W 6 MO PA IL I. L. COWELL < Other S Female W 4 MO PA IL M. E. LASLIE < Other Female W 56 KY At Home — — John A. BRADY < Other W Male W 68 TN TN TN
Source Information: Census Place Ash Grove, Greene, Missouri Family History Library Film
Mother: Charlotte J DUFF, b. 7 Aug 1832, Clinton County Illinois, d. 27 Mar 1897, Lawrence County Missouri
According to her obit in the Lockwood Sentinnel she was born in Clinton County Illinois in 1832 and had a first husband William Jones who died. See below. In The Lockwood Sentinel, Round Grove column, April 2, 1897, is: Mrs. Cowell, who has been sick for a number of months, died Saturdaly (sic) morning with consumption.'The Lockwood Sentinel, April 2, 1897: 'Sister C. J. Cowell, wife of Bro. J. L. Cowell, departed this life March 27, 1897. She was born in Clinton county, Ill., August 7, 1832, her maiden being C. J. Duff. In the year 1856, she was united in marriage to Wm. J. Jones, who died in 1858. Of this union one child was born to them, a daughter. In 1860, in Randolph county, Ill., she was again married, to J. L. T. Cowell, six children being born as a result of this union, four boys and two girls. In 1866 she, with her husband, moved from Illinois to Green county, Mo. In 1893 they, with their family, moved to Lawrence county, Mo., where she lived until her death, her age being 64 yrs., 7 mos. and 20 days.'
Married 1860, Randolph County Illinois
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