Jerry and Mysty: If you will go to the Marion Co web site (address below) and click on Transcribed Records and then Census you will find an index to the 1850 Marion Co Census on-line. Good Luck Linda lhaasdav@mindspring.com Home.page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas Marion.Co.AR http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion List hostess for -h.a.a.s/l.e.w.a.l.l.e.n/w.a.s.h.i.n.g.t.o.n n.c Interested in Construction? Check out my new book - "The Scopes of Work" at http://www.builderbooks.com/bbstore/index.icl ----- Original Message ----- From: Mysty McPherson <shakerag@mtnhome.com> To: <ARMARION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: Bennett and Cowan > A thought might be to look at the AR 1850 Census Index, Jerry. That way you > might be able to find where the Cowan girls were at that point in time - if > they were in Arkansas. An index exists for every state for most of the > census years until the Soundex came out in 1880. I don't have access to one > (sometimes wish I did), but someone, somewhere does <of course> I know > they're at the Little Rock Library and at the AR History Commission. See if > your library can get one on Interlibrary Loan - or has a clue where one > might be that's near you. I recommend this 'cuz I have no info on any Lydia > Cowan nor on any Sarah Cowan here in Marion Co. The Cowans here came around > the 1830s from TN, but there are Cowans all over the place. Who knows? You > might just get lucky <grin> > > Mysty shakerag@mtnhome.com > ***************************************** > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jerry Bennett <jbennett@brevard.net> > To: <ARMARION-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:52 PM > Subject: Fw: Msg from listowner > > > > Good idea. > > > > I am descended from Noah (b. SC, ca. 1790 d. 1850-1860 MCAR) and Mary (b. > > Ky, ca. 1796 ) BENNETT, one of the original settlers of Crooked Creek. > > Their son, Joseph, born 1838, married Sarah COWAN sometime. He was my > great > > grandfather. Died Clarksville, AR 1925. Brother Champion Henderson > > Bennett, b. ca. 1837, married Lydia Cowan. I am stumped for any Cowan > > ancestors, or any Bennetts before Noah, and do not know Mary's maiden > name. > > > > Jerry Bennett jbennett@brevard.net > > > > ============================== > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ >
Thanks. Jerry