This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DMQ.2ACIB/46.1.1 Message Board Post: I am related to your husband by William Cowan's son, Jacob Bailey. Here is what I know about Jeremiah. He was married on January 24, 1788 in the Old 96th District of South Carolina and died in 1822 in Union County, Kentucky. Elizabeth Hayes was born in 1775 and died March 8, 1856 in Union County, Kentucky. They had the following children: William, b. 1793, James W., b. 1803, Elizabeth b, 1807, Eleanor, b. 1809, and Nicy, b. 1815. I have found references to a James and John Cowan for 1779 Colony in the Old 96th District. I also have more info about each of these children as well as info about William Cowan and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Dickerson. The parents of your Louisa Minerva Cowan. Jeremiah was my g-g-g-g-grandfather, after which followed William, his son, Bailey, and his daugher Mary Minerva, my great-grandmother. Marilyn