Captain James Walker Cowan

1770 - 1815  (45 years)

• Name	James Walker Cowan  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Title	Captain
  Birth	1770	Augusta County, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Military	1812  [6]
  	Officer in War of 1812
  Will	15 Oct 1814	Franklin County, Tennessee, USA   [7]
  	LW&T
  Death	Sep 1815	Franklin County, Tennessee, USA
  Person ID	I4844	MontyHistNotes_III | John Montgomery_Esther Houston
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	Mary Polly Weir Montgomery,   b. 25 Dec 1777, Augusta County, Virginia, USA d. 16 Dec 1853, DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	23 Apr 1800	Blount County, Tennessee, USA   [1, 2, 3, 5, 7]
  Children	> 1. Reverend Samuel Montgomery Cowan,   b. 10 Mar 1801, Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, USA d. 5 May 1881, Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] > 2. Elizabeth McCroskey Cowan,   b. 6 Apr 1803, Blount County, Tennessee, USA d. 1850, Horn Lake, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3140	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1770 - Augusta County, Virginia, USA Marriage - 23 Apr 1800 - Blount County, Tennessee, USA Will - LW&T - 15 Oct 1814 - Franklin County, Tennessee, USA Death - Sep 1815 - Franklin County, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Folios

  The Montgomerys and their Descendants D B Montgomery Book - Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Other States Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants (Owensville, Indiana, USA, J P Cox, 1903), BooksAndPeriodicals https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322 . Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1.

  
  

• Sources

  [S794] Blount Tennessee Marriage List, (Name: Name: US Genweb Archives;;), http://files.usgwarchives.org/tn/blount/vitals/marriages/. [S795] Dodd, Jordan, Tennessee Marriages to 1825, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:1997;;). [S261] Ancestry.com, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2008;;), Database online. Record for James Cowan [S781] Montgomery, Erick Dale, The Montgomery Family of Franklin County, (Name: Franklin County Historical Review; Location: Franklin County, Tennessee, USA; Date: Jan 1978;). [S256] Dodd, Jordan, Tennessee Marriages to 1825, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1997;). [S1435] Montgomery, David B, A Genealogical History of the Montgomerys and their Descendants, (Name: J P Cox; Location: Owensville, Indiana, USA; Date: 1903;), Pages 322-333 Montgomery-Houston Family of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Other States https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322. Electronic Book .PDF 436 pages A_genealogical_history_of_the_Montgomery.pdf Also DBMontbgomery Index.doc Book found on Ancestry.com https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?ftm=1 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/20593/?count=50&f-F00032DB=322 [S768] Anderson, Beulah Henry, John and Esther Montgomery, 1719-1973, (Name: Brazos Printing Company; Location: Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, USA; Date: 1974;), Chapter 03 Pages 065-073 John Montgomery Married Mary Love Sisters Jane and Mar with Families in Franklin County.