Jane Walker did NOT have a middle name. (It was RARE to be given a middle name much before the 1790s!!)
Further, there is NO proof that Jane (Walker) Cowan was buried at Clark's Grove! When she died in 1806, the family was in Warren Co, TN. So, she is likely buried there but has no tombstone there … there are several Cowans who died there without tombstones.
No Cowan researcher has ever found any record or documentation that she was born in North Carolina. (Please remove NC as her place of birth and please remove HOUSTON as her middle name.)
Until some time in the 1790s, it was RARE for someone to have a middle name! In all the turn of the 20th century genealogies on the Walker family, NO one has her middle name as "Houston". Her father's name was HOUSTON, but as far as is known, she did NOT have a middle name!
Am requesting Houston be removed as a middle name.
I thought Findagrave was supposed to document ACTUAL burials in a cemetery and not "presumed" burials???????
Whoever put up this information does not know the Cowan family well. They have James Walker Cowan as a child of William Cowan and Jane Walker … but have Eleanor (Cowan) Gillespy, Andrew Cowan, and Robert Cowan as half siblings of James Walker Cowan. Eleanor, Andrew, and Robert are FULL siblings of James Walker Cowan!!!
If errors like this are allowed to infiltrate Findagrave, it will be as worthless as many of the family trees on Ancetry where people just glob together all the info on a person who has the same name … failing to sort out whether dates, locality, etc. match.
I've been researching the Cowans and Walkers since 1972. Many esteemed Cowan researchers with whom I've collaborated (and who are now deceased) did not have either of the above items.
One researcher, Bill Willis, did an OUTSTANDING job of putting all the turn of the [20th] century books/genealogy into a wiki and then updating/correcting errors in such by adding a wealth of documentation.
His work have very few errors … the only errors would be information that has surfaced since. I refer you to his WeRelate wiki page on Jane Walker:
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jane_Walker_(1)
If he had found she had a middle name, he would have put it on that wiki page.
Sorry for the "soapbox" … It's just that I've been doing research on the family for a good 50 years and I am after authenticity.
You can reach me at [email protected]
Further, there is NO proof that Jane (Walker) Cowan was buried at Clark's Grove! When she died in 1806, the family was in Warren Co, TN. So, she is likely buried there but has no tombstone there … there are several Cowans who died there without tombstones.
No Cowan researcher has ever found any record or documentation that she was born in North Carolina. (Please remove NC as her place of birth and please remove HOUSTON as her middle name.)
Until some time in the 1790s, it was RARE for someone to have a middle name! In all the turn of the 20th century genealogies on the Walker family, NO one has her middle name as "Houston". Her father's name was HOUSTON, but as far as is known, she did NOT have a middle name!
Am requesting Houston be removed as a middle name.
I thought Findagrave was supposed to document ACTUAL burials in a cemetery and not "presumed" burials???????
Whoever put up this information does not know the Cowan family well. They have James Walker Cowan as a child of William Cowan and Jane Walker … but have Eleanor (Cowan) Gillespy, Andrew Cowan, and Robert Cowan as half siblings of James Walker Cowan. Eleanor, Andrew, and Robert are FULL siblings of James Walker Cowan!!!
If errors like this are allowed to infiltrate Findagrave, it will be as worthless as many of the family trees on Ancetry where people just glob together all the info on a person who has the same name … failing to sort out whether dates, locality, etc. match.
I've been researching the Cowans and Walkers since 1972. Many esteemed Cowan researchers with whom I've collaborated (and who are now deceased) did not have either of the above items.
One researcher, Bill Willis, did an OUTSTANDING job of putting all the turn of the [20th] century books/genealogy into a wiki and then updating/correcting errors in such by adding a wealth of documentation.
His work have very few errors … the only errors would be information that has surfaced since. I refer you to his WeRelate wiki page on Jane Walker:
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jane_Walker_(1)
If he had found she had a middle name, he would have put it on that wiki page.
Sorry for the "soapbox" … It's just that I've been doing research on the family for a good 50 years and I am after authenticity.
You can reach me at [email protected]
Jane Walker did NOT have a middle name. (It was RARE to be given a middle name much before the 1790s!!)
Further, there is NO proof that Jane (Walker) Cowan was buried at Clark's Grove! When she died in 1806, the family was in Warren Co, TN. So, she is likely buried there but has no tombstone there … there are several Cowans who died there without tombstones.
No Cowan researcher has ever found any record or documentation that she was born in North Carolina. (Please remove NC as her place of birth and please remove HOUSTON as her middle name.)
Until some time in the 1790s, it was RARE for someone to have a middle name! In all the turn of the 20th century genealogies on the Walker family, NO one has her middle name as "Houston". Her father's name was HOUSTON, but as far as is known, she did NOT have a middle name!
Am requesting Houston be removed as a middle name.
I thought Findagrave was supposed to document ACTUAL burials in a cemetery and not "presumed" burials???????
Whoever put up this information does not know the Cowan family well. They have James Walker Cowan as a child of William Cowan and Jane Walker … but have Eleanor (Cowan) Gillespy, Andrew Cowan, and Robert Cowan as half siblings of James Walker Cowan. Eleanor, Andrew, and Robert are FULL siblings of James Walker Cowan!!!
If errors like this are allowed to infiltrate Findagrave, it will be as worthless as many of the family trees on Ancetry where people just glob together all the info on a person who has the same name … failing to sort out whether dates, locality, etc. match.
I've been researching the Cowans and Walkers since 1972. Many esteemed Cowan researchers with whom I've collaborated (and who are now deceased) did not have either of the above items.
One researcher, Bill Willis, did an OUTSTANDING job of putting all the turn of the [20th] century books/genealogy into a wiki and then updating/correcting errors in such by adding a wealth of documentation.
His work have very few errors … the only errors would be information that has surfaced since. I refer you to his WeRelate wiki page on Jane Walker:
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jane_Walker_(1)
If he had found she had a middle name, he would have put it on that wiki page.
Sorry for the "soapbox" … It's just that I've been doing research on the family for a good 50 years and I am after authenticity.
You can reach me at [email protected]
Further, there is NO proof that Jane (Walker) Cowan was buried at Clark's Grove! When she died in 1806, the family was in Warren Co, TN. So, she is likely buried there but has no tombstone there … there are several Cowans who died there without tombstones.
No Cowan researcher has ever found any record or documentation that she was born in North Carolina. (Please remove NC as her place of birth and please remove HOUSTON as her middle name.)
Until some time in the 1790s, it was RARE for someone to have a middle name! In all the turn of the 20th century genealogies on the Walker family, NO one has her middle name as "Houston". Her father's name was HOUSTON, but as far as is known, she did NOT have a middle name!
Am requesting Houston be removed as a middle name.
I thought Findagrave was supposed to document ACTUAL burials in a cemetery and not "presumed" burials???????
Whoever put up this information does not know the Cowan family well. They have James Walker Cowan as a child of William Cowan and Jane Walker … but have Eleanor (Cowan) Gillespy, Andrew Cowan, and Robert Cowan as half siblings of James Walker Cowan. Eleanor, Andrew, and Robert are FULL siblings of James Walker Cowan!!!
If errors like this are allowed to infiltrate Findagrave, it will be as worthless as many of the family trees on Ancetry where people just glob together all the info on a person who has the same name … failing to sort out whether dates, locality, etc. match.
I've been researching the Cowans and Walkers since 1972. Many esteemed Cowan researchers with whom I've collaborated (and who are now deceased) did not have either of the above items.
One researcher, Bill Willis, did an OUTSTANDING job of putting all the turn of the [20th] century books/genealogy into a wiki and then updating/correcting errors in such by adding a wealth of documentation.
His work have very few errors … the only errors would be information that has surfaced since. I refer you to his WeRelate wiki page on Jane Walker:
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jane_Walker_(1)
If he had found she had a middle name, he would have put it on that wiki page.
Sorry for the "soapbox" … It's just that I've been doing research on the family for a good 50 years and I am after authenticity.
You can reach me at [email protected]
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