Nancy Cowles
Nancy (Nannie) Cowles was born in Maryland around 1854. She married Jesse S. Cowles after the Civil War. They adopted two daughters together: Etha, born November 1884; and Clara, born December 1886. She died on November 4, 1896, about eight months before her husband. She is buried beside him in York, Pennsylvania.
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| Birth date: | 1854 | ||||||||||||
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| Birth place: | Maryland | ||||||||||||
| Death date: | 1896-11-04 | ||||||||||||
| Death place: | York, PA | ||||||||||||
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1880 and 1900 U.S. Federal Censuses, accessed on Ancestry.com; The York Dispatch (Pennsylvania), July 19, 1897; Samantha Dorm, "Jesse Sumner Cowles," Emails, December 2020-January 2021.
