I thought that I had figured out who the other Samuel M. Cowan was last summer when I worked at the TN State Lib. & Archives and spent some of my break time looking at abstracts. I am not positive now that I had it correct. As with so many of these things, I will look for my notes. The reason I say I am not sure is that I had also believed that P.D.'s line was connected to ours. My g-g-grandfather apparently thought so, though I suspect that the presence of the Russell line in Perez's had something to do with it. We have some Russell connection as well, though I think it is mostly through the families that married our Cowans. Anyway, there were enough entries for James, John, Samuel, etc. that they may have gotten crossed in my brain. (I guess I should say we may have Russell connections. I recall having found some connections, but do not have the citations anywhere. I wonder what my thesis director would do if I told her I was going to leave my thesis alone for awhile and work on genealogy?) :-) Jim --- Laura Cowan Cooper <lauracowancooper@comcast.net> wrote: > No, Jim. I had not read that before. Thanks for > sending it to me. The > difference in the two Samuels caught my eye. Do you > have in your vast > knowledge who the other one was suppose to be??? I > know that there were two > different ones and that they are often crossed - > just thought that maybe > you had sorted them in detail at some time. > > P.D. Cowan is Perez Dickinson Cowan that married > Margaret Rhea here in > Knoxville in a double wedding - her brother married > Perez's sister. This is > Dickinson Cowan's grandfather and Dickinson is part > of our DAN Project. He > is in no way related to you - the DNA is too far > off. I mean really far > off. This line goes back to James Cowan that married > Margaret Russell. He > died in 1801 and she then married a Humes and then a > Ramsay. The Ramsey > House here in Knoxville was built for her. This line > of Cowans were early > founders of Knoxville, but the DNA sawed them off > the tree from your group. > > Dick has his grandfather's research papers, but he > has put genealogy aside. > The DNA study presented many questions once the DNA > came back since it did > not match as we had expected it to so. He no longer > tied to Samuel Cowan > that was Killed By Indians. The families may have > thought that they were > kin and lived as kin, but DNA says no. What is > worse, there is Jewish > heritage in that line. They tested R1a haplogroup > instead of R1b like your > group. I think that Dick's family believed that they > were from Samuel Cowan > KBI long before Fleming's book. > > Thanks again for sending that - I found it very > interesting. > > Laura > Laura Cowan Cooper of Kodak, TN > lauracowancooper@comcast.net > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html