My family descends from Alfred Cowan, born in Blount County, TN 1800 and died in near Greenfield, MO in 1849. He married Jane Cook whom we have no detailed information on. His daughter (my GG Grandmother), Albina Minerva Cowan, (born in 1840) and died in 1931 in Alden, Kansas. She married John Brown (1832-1916) from Monroe County, TN. We believe that Alfred's father was Andrew Cowan from Virginia born 1780. That is where we have our Cowan brickwall. Unfortunately I'm away from home and look up more details. Carl Brown Researching, Brown, Cowan, Sprague, Thompson, Proffitt, Wisler, Farley, Teeter, Delzer, Norwood, Self, and Buchwitz