Hi Ann, Thanks for your response. I had Googled her but found only familiar information that I already knew. I'm not a member of Ancestry.com so I have not seen her obit. Did you know her or her partner Mary Graff? When did you graduate from Lee High School? And, what brought you to Texas? thanks, Phil p.s. I'm not a Lee graduate. I went to Wolfson on the southside. I started high school at Landon. Ann Parkinson wrote: >Hello fellow Lee High Graduate from Humble TX... >I put her name into Google and found 50 references to >her and/or her books, etc. I also found several >entries from Ancestry one of which was her death entry >in the FL Death Index. > >"Edith Cowles" +Florida are the search parameters I >used. > >If I can assist you further, let me know. > >Best regards, >Ann >Native Jacksonian living in TX > >--- "Philip M. Smith" <readmore@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >>I am searching for information about Edith Cowles. >>She was a lifelong >>Jacksonville resident, born in about 1914. She is >>deceased. Miss >>Cowles was an English teacher at Robert E. Lee High >>School and later in >>her life at Wolfson High School. She helped reissue >>Harriet Beecher >>Stowe's travel book "Palmetto Leaves," published by >>the Univeristy of >>Florida Press in 1999). She graduated from Lee High >>School in 1933 and >>was a classmate of my father's. She was my English >>teacher in high >>school. >> >>I am interested in her writings, if any exist. I >>believe she was an >>author. If anyone has information about her, I >>would be most grateful. >> >> >>Philip Smith >>College Station, Texas >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email >>to FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's >Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. >http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >
Hey, Phil. I have recently been delving into the records at the Jax public library. There is a death index compiled from Florida Times Union records. Should be fairly easy to locate Miss Cowles' obituary using that and the microfilms of the paper. If no one else volunteers, I would be glad to do it next time I'm in Jax, which should be within the next month. If you are in a hurry, the people on the desk of the Florida Collection might be willing to look for it. Another idea: The Lee class of 1962 is having a 45th Reunion in July, so they have a good mailing list. Remembering teachers and coaches should be part of a reunion. Maybe someone can be found to locate obits not only for Miss Cowles (also my husband Sam's favorite teacher ever) but also others. I'm sending this to the organizers to see what they think and whether they will use their email list to solicit teacher names and memories of teachers and recruit one or more researcher-volunteers to gather the info. They may even have such an effort in the works. Best regards, Barbara Buckman Williams > From: "Philip M. Smith" <readmore@verizon.net> > Reply-To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:52:37 -0500 > To: <flduval@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] Edith Cowles > > Hi Ann, > > Thanks for your response. I had Googled her but found only familiar > information that I already knew. I'm not a member of Ancestry.com so I > have not seen her obit. Did you know her or her partner Mary Graff? > When did you graduate from Lee High School? And, what brought you to > Texas? > > thanks, > > Phil > > p.s. I'm not a Lee graduate. I went to Wolfson on the southside. I > started high school at Landon. > > > > Ann Parkinson wrote: > >> Hello fellow Lee High Graduate from Humble TX... >> I put her name into Google and found 50 references to >> her and/or her books, etc. I also found several >> entries from Ancestry one of which was her death entry >> in the FL Death Index. >> >> "Edith Cowles" +Florida are the search parameters I >> used. >> >> If I can assist you further, let me know. >> >> Best regards, >> Ann >> Native Jacksonian living in TX >> >> --- "Philip M. Smith" <readmore@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >> >>> I am searching for information about Edith Cowles. >>> She was a lifelong >>> Jacksonville resident, born in about 1914. She is >>> deceased. Miss >>> Cowles was an English teacher at Robert E. Lee High >>> School and later in >>> her life at Wolfson High School. She helped reissue >>> Harriet Beecher >>> Stowe's travel book "Palmetto Leaves," published by >>> the Univeristy of >>> Florida Press in 1999). She graduated from Lee High >>> School in 1933 and >>> was a classmate of my father's. She was my English >>> teacher in high >>> school. >>> >>> I am interested in her writings, if any exist. I >>> believe she was an >>> author. If anyone has information about her, I >>> would be most grateful. >>> >>> >>> Philip Smith >>> College Station, Texas >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email >>> to FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word >>> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >>> the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> _____________________________________________________________________________ >> _______ >> Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's >> Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. >> http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FLDUVAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message