9670 Individuals in our Database | | | | Elizabeth Piggott Pickett Sex: Female | | | | |  | Birth Date | 1751 FEB 10 James City Colony of Virginia | Death Date | 1835 Chalbeate Springs, Edmonson County, Kentucky | Father | Thomas F Cowles | Born: 1735 | Died: 1806 | Mother | Elizabeth Crawley | Born: 1718 | | Henry B. Cowles GRINNING HENRY 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. | | |
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