Cowan Researcher - Michael Green, I am checking to see if you are on the Cowan List. I can not tell from the list of e-mail addresses at the admin site. Speaking of which, there are a lot of e-mail addresses that appear to be people that I do not know who you are, what your line is, or really anything about you. That is a sad state of affairs - how can any of us help you if you don't post your line. Tonight I just went back to 1996 information that I got from Michael and 1997 information that I got that also connected to his family. Why did I do this or why is this important - well, it has to do with the Cowan DNA project. I do look at what you all post and I do go through my files to see if I know anything that might help you. I look at a lot of Cowan Information since I have permission to correct and re-publish Cowans From County Down by John Kerr Fleming. My problem is that I don't stay focused. So please post your line if you post nothing else and please keep us with a current e-mail address if you post to any of the boards. This is important. I have never had another e-mail address, but that will be changing as soon as we go to high speed. That was the requirement to get me to give up my e-mail address and I see the writing on the wall. How is research going for everyone??? The on-line census and the development of Ancestry.com must be wonderful help. I know that DNA has answered a lot of questions, but we need more lines to get tested so that we have a better sample of Cowan, Cowen, Cowin, etc - this is a more the better especially if you are one of the dead end lines that can't get back very far. Public web page is http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cowan/ I think that many of you will find it interesting. So, I will post my line Immigrant John Cowan m Elizabeth Parke Henry Cowan, Sr. m Jean ( was she a Varner since so many other's used that as a middle name) Robert Cowan m Elizabeth Campbell Robert Varner Cowan m Nancy Caples John Maxwell Cowan m Florence Elvira Turner Henry Turner Cowan m Anna Mae Gregory Emmett Gregory Cowan m Marjorie Buchanan Laura Dianne Cowan - that's me My group was in PA then Rowan County, NC until in about 1903 they moved to middle Tennessee. Others had moved that way before, but my group did not do so until later. Now post those lines and let me know who you are!!!! It is bad when I don't know. Laura

Here's my line again: Hugh Cowan b. Bet. 1680 - 1700 Newry, County Down, Ireland. d. 1781 Sadsbury Twp, Pennsylvania m. (first) Mary Davidson b. abt. 1718 in Ireland, in 1735 in Pennsylvania. m. (second) Elizabeth Parke. They had 12 children, including David Cowan, b. August 31, 1742 Chester Co, Pennsylvania, d. March 11, 1786. David married Mary Gray Sept. 12, 1769 in Sadsbury Twp., PA. She was born Feb. 19, 1746-47 and died 1792. David and Mary had 8 children, including Margaret Mary Cowan, b. bet. 1770-1775, m. Isaac Jefferson Nicoson/Nickerson, b. Bourbon Co. KY 1770, d. 1809. Isaac and Margaret's daughter Polly Nicoson b. 1797 Bourbon Co, KY, m. W. Isaac Moler June 4, 1818. in Nicholas Co, KY. W. Isaac and Polly's daughter Merena Edith Moler b. Jan. 22, 1822, married John Daniel Ockerman/Ockomon/Ackerman Aug. 1, 1839. in Nicholas Co, KY. Their son Joseph Ockerman/Ackerman b. 1841 Nicholas Co, KY married Julia Ann Waugh in 1862, died a few months later in the Civil War. Their one son was Joseph Washington Ockerman, b. 1863, married Bettie Ann Campbell July 15, 1886 in Carlisle, KY. Joseph and Bettie's daughter Clarine Virginia Ockerman, b. 1909, married John Ernest Harmon, son of Irish immigrants, and produced 4 children, including my father, John Ernest Harmon, Jr.