When Eli Cowan was born in 1820, in Franklin, Alabama, United States, his father, Samuel Cowan, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Margaret Keith, was 42. He married Anna E Hays on 4 June 1838, in Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Floyd, White, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Crooked Creek Township, Boone, Arkansas, United States in 1880. He died about 1900, in Harrison Township, Boone, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Grubb Springs Cemetery, Harrison, Boone, Arkansas, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Boundaries - 1833: Johnson, Arkansas Territory, United States; 1836: Johnson, Arkansas, United States
Historical Boundaries 1842: White, Arkansas, United States
Scottish and Manx: shortened form of McOwen and McKeown . See also McEwen .
Sottish and Manx: from a shortened form of Irish Ó Comhdhain and Mac Comhdhain ‘descendant or son of Comhdan’ or Gaelic Mac Comhghain ‘son of Comhghan (‘the twin’). Pronounced to rhyme with Owen, the name sometimes appears as Coan and Cohen in Down, and has been used interchangeably with Irish Coyne in Connacht and McIlhone in Tyrone. In the Isle of Man the name is pronounced /'kauən/ (with Cow- as in English cow).
Scottish and Manx: sometimes a variant of Colquhoun , pronounced Cohoon in Scotland and Cahoon in Ulster.
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