Elijah Cowan b. ca 1800 NC d. ??? Louisiana

Pet peeve brickwall ancestor! According to census records, Elijah was born ca 1800 in NC, but I first find him in Henry Co, GA in 1830 & in 1840. By 1850 he is in Louisiana with a wife named Sarah A. Both he & she are mysteries! Always looking for help/cousins from this line!

Incidentally, Elijah is NOT one of the "7 brothers" or the "4 brothers" oft-discussed in Cowan genealogies. Elijah is one of a very small group of Haplotype R1a Cowans who all match each other but can't find our common ancestors (Elijah was the inspiration for the whole R1a project at FTDNA!).

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on July 20, 2009 at 2:10pm: Hi Cyndi:
Thank you for supporting the Most Wanted group.
You wrote, "...Elijah was the inspiration for the whole R1a project...." Honored! All the more reason we'll hope to advance this with you.

Took a look at the 1850 census about which you comment, Ouachita County, Louisiana, Ward 9, page 256 (stamped at right on facing page), sheet 506 (stamped at upper left), dwelling 279, family 290. Certainly a lot of data in that census…There was so much detail in the names recorded in the census that I thought a attempt at abstracting would be a good idea; as follows:

Elijah (50) and Saran Ann (38), he b. NC, she, Geo[rgia]; apparent children, first five born at Geo[rgia]:
Mary Ann Hester/Heater Cowan (17); Nancy Catherine Cowan (ae 15); Sherwood Campbell Cowan (ae 13); ??[Jonathan] Cowan (ae 11); William Marion Cowan (ae 8); Sarah Ann Rebecca Cowan (ae 6), b. Ala[bama]; Elijah Ambrose Cowan (ae 2), b. L[ouisiana]; also residing in the household is a ??Doug Goar, ae 20, laborer b. Geo[rgia].

I notice they are between two McDonald families, but the location information about those families is quite splintered.

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on August 21, 2009 at 9:55pm

Hi Cyndi:

Here's a copy of the 1850 census that you mentioned earlier. I'm know that you have this; posting it here for the convenience of others.

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Cown, Elijah 1850 Ouachita County, Louisiana.pdf, 491 KB

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on August 21, 2009 at 10:03pm

Am attaching a 1900 census for an S. ?C. Cowan; the index entry at Ancestry has been annotated to note this as Sherwood Campbell Cowan. This census reports includes the entry for a "M. A. Wilson," born Dec 1832 at Arkansas, said the "sister."

Does your research also suggest this is the census entry for the son of your Elijah?

Possible this is, then, otherwise Mary Ann Hester Cowan, who was ae 17 in the census of 1850, then reported born Georgia. Does the possibility that this Mary Ann might have been born at Arkansas help to connect any dots for you?

From your earlier posting, appears you've researched this line extensively. If you have a family group sheet for Elijah and Sarah, hope you'll consider posting that with this challenge. --GJ

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