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in our Database | |  | | | | Henry B. Cowles GRINNING HENRY Sex: Male | | | |  | | Birth Date | 1751 FEB 10 James City Colony of Virginia | | Death Date | 1835 Chalbeate Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky | | Father | Thomas F Cowles | Born: 1735 James City, Co. VA Colony | Died: 1806 | | Mother | Elizabeth Crawley | Born: 1718 | | | Henry B. Cowles
Notes: | Henry Cowles was a methodist, wore knee breeches and was a learned man.
According to family tradition, Henry B. Cowles was noted as being a lover.
Henry arrived in Barren Co KY with his sister, Elizabeth who brought along 2 slaves Peter and Ned from VA and gave them to John Cowles.
He settled a lot of land having passed over on acct of scarcity of water on a farm 2 miles from Pine Grove Church and 5 miles from Chalybeate, KY.
(cowles families in America)
Henry witnessed the will of Richard Brack of James City Co. VA in 1789,
and is mentioned in the will of John Cooper of same county in 1791.
He and his maiden sister Elizabeth are buried in the family burying ground in the farm but their graves are unmarked. In 1903, a part of the farm was known as the Jerry Poteet place, and part of it was owned by James Cowles, a grandson of Henry Cowles.
The wife of Henry Cowles was names Elizabeth and some of her descendants claim that her maiden name was Piggott, or Pickett.
Edmund Cowles married Elizabeth Piggott in Toana, VA in May 1800, but it is not impossible that there should have been two of the same name.
He bought land of a Mr. Holcomb in Edmonson Co. KY and there lived and died.
| | Notes: | When "Grinning" Henry Cowles was born on 10 February 1751, in James City, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas F Cowles, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Crawley, was 33. He had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Elizabeth Piggott. He lived in Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1810 and Edmonson, Kentucky, United States in 1830. He died in 1835, in Chalybeate, Edmonson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Edmonson, Kentucky, United States.
| | Notes: | More About HENRY B. COWLES: Burial: Family burial grounds, Pine Grove, KY Property: 1825, According to a 1825 Edmonson Co. Tax List owned 325 acres
| | Notes: | HENRY1 COWLES, son of Thomas• (2) of James City County, Va. He witnessed the will of Richard Brack of James City County in r78g, and is mentioned in the will of John Cooper of same county in 179r. According to tradition he removed to Barren County, Ky., in 1804. He settled in what is now Edmonson County, Ky., much more desirable land having been passed over on account of the scarcity of water, on a farm .some two miles from Pine Grove Church and five miles from Chalybeate . Springs. He and his maiden sister Elizabeth are . buried in the family burying ground on the farm but their graves are unmarked; In 1903, a part of the farm was known as the Jerry Poteet place, and a part of it was owned by James Cowles ( 44), a grandson of Henry Cowles. The wife of Henry Cowles was named Elizabeth and some of her descendants claim that her maiden name was Piggott, or Pickett. Edmund Cowles (II) married Elizabeth Piggott of. Toana, Va., in May, 18oo, but it is not impossible that there should have been two of the same name. · Henry Cowles was a Methodist, wore knee breeches and was a learned man. He bought land of a Mr. Holcomb in Edmonson Co., Ky., and there lived and died.
| | Henry B. Cowles Will: | Will of henry Cowles 1835: I, Henry Cowles, of the county of Edmonson and the state of KY do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say
1st, I desire that out of the money due to my estate all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Should the debts due my estate prove insufficient for the above purpose then I desire my executor here after names may sell such of my property as he may think just and out of the money arising from the sale thereof pay and satisfy such of my debts as shall remain unpaid.
2nd, after the payment of my debts and funeral expenses I give to my wife Elizabeth all my estate both real and personal for and during the time of her natural life and after her death I give the same to my children and grandchildren after mentioned to be divided as follows (unclear)
3rd, I give my son Leroy Cowles portion of my tract of land including the farm and the house in which I now live to extend to a line I wish to run acrop the land from north to the south line with in 20 ft of the fence and parallel to the fence on the south east side of the farm above mentioned to have and his heirs that portion which wil l be left after the lines are run as directed in the portion alloted to my son Leroy W. Cowles.
5th I give my grand daughter Sharlott Cowles one fourth of my personal property.
6th, all the balance of my personal property I wish equally divided between my two sons, Vincent and Leroy Cowles accept my negroe woman Lucy whom I desire them to free and lastly
I do hereby constitute and appoint my some Leroy Cowles executor of my last will and testement by me heretofor made in witness where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 3rd day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred thirty five.
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FOR=388 Ancestors Chart | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024 persons | - | Thomas F Cowles
COLONIAL
b.1735 James City, Co. VA Colony
d.1806
See Notes | John Thomas Cowles
b.1710 James City County, Virginia
See Notes | Richard Cowles
b.1635 England
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| | | | | | | | | | | Parents 2 | 4 persons | 8 persons | 16 persons | 32 persons | 64 persons | 128 persons | 256 persons | 512 persons | 1024-persons | - | Elizabeth Crawley
b.1718
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