This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowan, Cowen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DMQ.2ACIB/215.507 Message Board Post: Claude Lawrence Cowen was born on 28 Nov 1893 in St Clair Co Al. He died on 27 May 1941 in Santa Barbara Ca.. He was married to Elizabeth May"Lizzie" Morris (daughter of Fred Morris and Josephine Annette Rhodes) on 6 Jun 1913 in Grayson Co. Tx.. Elizabeth May"Lizzie" Morris was born on 1 Sep 1895 in Texas. Claude Lawrence Cowen was the grandson of Samuel Cowan, a brother of my GGF John William Cowan. Some of the Samuel Cowan line spelled their last name Cowen.