Margaret Susannah Foster, daughter of John Edward Foster and the former Jane Bowman Wardlaw, was born on September 7th 1838 in the area around Calhoun Mills, South Carolina. Margaret had been named for her two aunts on both sides of the family: Margaret Louise Wardlaw and Susannah Clark [Foster] McCaslan.
The Foster and Wardlaw families were old established residence of Abbeville County; who had fought in the revolutionary war a half century earlier. So, when Margaret married Charles Wesley Cowan on July 3rd 1856; she connected the families to a family with long colonial Virginia roots.
Margaret and Charles Cowan made their home in southwest Abbeville County near Calhoun Mills, where they raised their six children:
Samuel Edward (1857-1938)
Susan Jane {Tarrant}(1859-1919)
Mary Elizabeth [Morris}(1862-1935)
Robert William (1864-1933)
Martha Clark "Mattie" {Hemminger} (1866-1902)
Margaret Susannah (1869-1871)
The Foster and Wardlaw families were old established residence of Abbeville County; who had fought in the revolutionary war a half century earlier. So, when Margaret married Charles Wesley Cowan on July 3rd 1856; she connected the families to a family with long colonial Virginia roots.
Margaret and Charles Cowan made their home in southwest Abbeville County near Calhoun Mills, where they raised their six children:
Samuel Edward (1857-1938)
Susan Jane {Tarrant}(1859-1919)
Mary Elizabeth [Morris}(1862-1935)
Robert William (1864-1933)
Martha Clark "Mattie" {Hemminger} (1866-1902)
Margaret Susannah (1869-1871)
Margaret Susannah Foster, daughter of John Edward Foster and the former Jane Bowman Wardlaw, was born on September 7th 1838 in the area around Calhoun Mills, South Carolina. Margaret had been named for her two aunts on both sides of the family: Margaret Louise Wardlaw and Susannah Clark [Foster] McCaslan.
The Foster and Wardlaw families were old established residence of Abbeville County; who had fought in the revolutionary war a half century earlier. So, when Margaret married Charles Wesley Cowan on July 3rd 1856; she connected the families to a family with long colonial Virginia roots.
Margaret and Charles Cowan made their home in southwest Abbeville County near Calhoun Mills, where they raised their six children:
Samuel Edward (1857-1938)
Susan Jane {Tarrant}(1859-1919)
Mary Elizabeth [Morris}(1862-1935)
Robert William (1864-1933)
Martha Clark "Mattie" {Hemminger} (1866-1902)
Margaret Susannah (1869-1871)
The Foster and Wardlaw families were old established residence of Abbeville County; who had fought in the revolutionary war a half century earlier. So, when Margaret married Charles Wesley Cowan on July 3rd 1856; she connected the families to a family with long colonial Virginia roots.
Margaret and Charles Cowan made their home in southwest Abbeville County near Calhoun Mills, where they raised their six children:
Samuel Edward (1857-1938)
Susan Jane {Tarrant}(1859-1919)
Mary Elizabeth [Morris}(1862-1935)
Robert William (1864-1933)
Martha Clark "Mattie" {Hemminger} (1866-1902)
Margaret Susannah (1869-1871)
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MARGARET S.
COWAN
BORN
SEPT. 9, 1838
DIED
JUNE 16, 1890
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MOTHER
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