Early Years
John Henry Cowan was born on January 12, 1855 Mississippi.1
1. 1900 US Census, Montgomery, Mississippi, population schedule, Beat 2, Duck Hill, enumeration district (ED) 78, sheet 1B, household 17, John H. Cowin household; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 1 August 2021); citing NARA, 1900. T623, FHL microfilm 1240820; Dorothy Mullen Lankford, Walsey & Lillian Mullen Family History (typed), Dorothy Lankford Family Records; supplied by John C. Lankford, [address for private use], Columbia, MO, about 1990; author unknown, some information known to be inaccurate. Dorothy Lankford to John Lankford Jr.; Francis Cowan Records Letter to Unknown, 1948, digital scan.