Research on this family was compiled by Ruth Cowan Neumayer, who also worked on the Cowan Clan United Newsletter. No conclusive parental record of the following COWAN children (all born Boyd's Creek, Sevier Co., TN) has been determined: UNKNOWN PARENTS MARGARET......................................b Oct.14,1798 m John McMURRAY JANE M. W. ...................................b Dec 5, 1800 m Samuel PICKENS UNKNOWN COWAN MARY (POLLY) ..............................b 1805 m Arch McMURRAY VINEY ................................................b 1808 m Anderson BOWERS CYNTHIA .........................................b Jan 16, 1811 m Alexander PICKENS MARTHA BOYD ............................b Nov 5, 1813 m Samuel McCAMMON WILLIAM MONTGOMERY .....b Mar 11, 1818 m Barbara SEATON (my gggrandfather is) HOUSTON EVANS ......................b 1821 ....d Nov 1892..................buried Mt. Pleasant Methodist Cemetery near Jasper, Marion Co., TN married ca 1846 Julia Ann SEATON .......b May 28, 1825 ...d 1882 ...buried with H. E. (Note: SEATON girls were daughters of Phillip SEATON & Mary BARNHART ...Mary's lineage includes: Conrad BARNHART+Barbara GEFELLERS Adam G'FELLER+Mary Magdalene HUBER Jacob HUBER+Anna Hans HUBER+Margaret KOCK Children of Houston E. and Julia: WILLIAM PHILLIP...b?1847 m Mary Jane SMITH...Aug 30, 1873, Bradley, TN JAMES ALEXANDER ...b ca 1850 ...d Oct 15, 1906 ...buried Humprey Cemetery 5 mi east of Quinlan TX m Sarah Jane BROWN...ca 1877 MARY JANE b Apr 30, 1846 Polk Co. TN...d Oct 8 1886 Meigs Co. TN m Jeremiah JENKINS...Aug 25, 1868, Bradley Co. TN ELIZA ANN ...b ca 1854 ...d May 1929, Grantsbury, IL m Ed CLEMONS or CLEMENTS MARGARET ...b ca 1856 (shown as Margaret Cowan living in Bradley Co. TN with parents and a child named Samuel Raney b 1876-77) SAMUEL HOUSTON ...b ca 1858 ...d May 24, 1938, Austin, Travis TX m Susie Ann Pierson? MADISON MONTGOMERY ...b ca 1860 ...buried Dallas, TX my great grandfather JOHN ULYSSES ...b July 31, 1865, Bradley Co. TN ...d June 3, 1949 San Antonio, TX ...buried Mission Burial Park m Leatha Adelia BURNETT...Dec 29, Victoria, Marion Co TN my grandmother NELLIE LOUISE COWAN...b August 19, 1890, Tracy City, Marion Co TN ...d 1976...buried Masonic & Odd Fellows Cemetery, Benton, Franklin Co IL m Spencer Bert Morris...Oct 14, 1906 in Grantsburg, Pope Co IL by her father my mother HELEN LOUISE MORRIS...b March 1, 1911, Simpson, Pope Co IL ...d Jan 2003, buried Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville, Jersey Co IL m John Willim Suddes...June 7, 1936 in Benton, Franklin Co IL me HELEN LOUISE SUDDES POMAKOY Any clues or more info on these families would be appreciated. Some have thought Houston's father was Christopher Columbus, including Ruth Neumayer... but before her death she was exploring a William Cowan. Helen Suddes Pomakoy POMAKOY@Prodigy.net