When Frances Matilda Cowden was born on 20 December 1864, in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States, her father, James Thomas Cowden, was 35 and her mother, Mary Ellen Standiferd, was 22. She married Lloyd Nelson Best on 18 November 1883, in Osage, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Osage, Kansas, United States in 1875 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 September 1937, in Vista, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
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Scottish: habitational name from Cowden in Dalkeith (Midlothian), and any of several other places in Scotland called Cowden.
English: habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Cowden in Mayfield, Cowden in Wartling, and Cowden Hall in Heathfield (all in Sussex), Cowden (Kent, Northumberland, and Yorkshire), and Green Cowden in Bakewell (Derbyshire). The surname is more or less restricted to northern England, and is also found in northern Ireland, where it may be of Scottish origin.
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