Genealogy for
Willson Coward / Cowan
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Willson Coward / Cowan
1783 - 3/28/1853
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Willson Coward / Cowan was born about 1783 in Marion, South Carolina and died on March 28, 1853 in Marion, South Carolina. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 70 years old.
Children:
Joel Coward (1805 -1860? Marion Co. SC)
Hansel Coward(1825-1860?)- married Jane______
Frances Coward - marred Ephraim Taylor
Penny Coward(1815-1860?)
Sarah Coward(1814-1870?) -married Samuel Lane
Martha Coward (1809-1865?)- marred Allen Jones
Ann Coward- married John Lee
Cathrine "Kiddy"Coward Bailey. | 
 | Census | 1/1/1840 | SC (Marion County) | 57 yrs old |  Willson Coward : one male 5-10,one male 50-60,one female 15-20 and one female 50-60. |
| Census | 1/1/1850 | SC (Macon County) | 67 yrs old | family # 1585 Wilson Coward (age 67) wife, Sarah (age 65) Wilson is a farmer. His estate value is $2000. States they are both born in Marion Co. SC.
next door #1586, Joel Coward (44)with wife Penny (34)and six children. |
| Other | 3/28/1853 | SC (Marion County) | 70 yrs old | WILL OF
WILSON COWARD
In the name of God Amen
I Wilson Coward of the State of South Carolina, Marion Dis-
trict, being admoneshed form the infirmity of my body, that my temperal ex-
istance must soon close, and being disposed to make a distribution of my
earthly estate among my heirs, do , on this the twenty eight day March, make
Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, make, constitute,
and ordain this my last will and Testament, in manner and form following, vis,
First my will is, that all my just debts and funeral expences,
be paid out of such personal estate as I may die pofsefsed of,
Next, I give and bequeath to my wife Sarah, of my real estate a trust
of land where I now live of one hundred fifty acres bought of Wm, Manners.,
another adjoining Containing two hundred acres bought of Wm Hamilton, and also
another of Sixty acres, bought of John Maning, and one other of about eighty
acres, bought of Malcom Stafford, lying on and in Maple Swamp, all the above
named tracts of land, I give to my wife Sarah, except one hundred acres here
in after given to my daughter Martha Jones, during the natural life of said
wife. Sarah. and/at her death I give the said lands to my son Hansel Coward and to his
lawful heirs born of/his body but if he shall die without any such heirs then the
land herein given to him shall return to my heirs I also bequeath to my wife
Sarah All my personal estate of every sort, and Kind, negroes, Stock, plan-
tation tools, household furniture, monies and credits, and provisions during
her natural life, and at her death to be subject to the disposion herein
after made, but all the other property negroes and lands excepted, to her at
her absolute disposal, I give To my son Joel Coward all the ballance of my
lands except one hundred acres herein after given to Martha Jones, and fifty
acres herein after given to Ervin Coward, I also give to my son Joel my negro
man Damon, my negroe boy Ned, and negroe boy Daniel, at the death of my wife
Sarah, but he Shall pay to Kiddy Baily or her hiers, one hundred a fifty which
I give to my daughter Kiddy Baily, I also give and bequeath to son Joel
half the interests profits and emoluments of my mill, the other half I give to
my son Hansel, I give and bequeath also, to my son Hansel the lands land
given to his mother at her death I also give him at the death of my wife/my negroe, PAGE 2
woman Alse and negroe boy Sam to him and to the lawful born of his body
but if he should die without and such heirs then the land and negroes here-
in given, to return to my heirs, To my daughter Sarah Lane I give and be-
queath my negroe girl Mary and also that tract of land of one hundred and
thirty five acres on the side of Little Peedee bought of Isaac Hyott for
her to have the use and benifit of the said negroe and land yet that she nor
her husband during her natural life yet that she nor her husband can not
sell nor here the said negroe nor sell nor rent the said land nor shall uther
the said land or negroe be subject to execution or to be taken for any debt
which she or her husband may contract and at her/death I give the land and negroe
herein named for the use and benefet of my said daughter to her heirs, her
children, lawfully born of her body the negroe herein to remain with my wife
till death as before stated To my daughter Penny I give and bequeath at the
death of my wife my negroe girl alary and negroe woman Jenny To my daughter
Martha Jones I give and bequeath the use and benefit of one hundred acres of
land where she live from Malcom Clarks land on the north of the plantation to
a certain crofs fense to Which Mrs. Manning's field extended and on Westwardly
to include one hundred acres with all priviledge of timber outlet and range
during her hernatural life and. at her death to go to my son Hansel Coward To
my Grand sons John Lee and Richard Lee I give at the death of my wife my ne-
groe boy Henry to be equally divided between them
I give and bequeath to Ervin Coward son of my daughter Frances fifty
acres of/land along Whitten Hamilton's and Isaac Stackhouses land including the
place where Robt Taylor live
And lastly I constitute and ordain my son Joel Coward my executor to
this my last will and Testament
In testamony where of I have here unto set my hand on the day and in the year
first above written to this for my last will revoking all others
his
Signed in presence of Wilson X Coward
mark
Malcom Stafford
Thomas Bridges
James H. Stafford
Recorded in Will Book 2, Page 147
Recorded Septr. 5, 1853
Roll No. 983
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Willson, his family, and friends. For example, Willson is 4 years old when Constitution of the United States is signed
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1785 |
The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth. |
| 10 |
1793 |
The cotton gin was invented by Whitney. |
| 16 |
1799 |
The Rosetta Stone was discovered |
| 17 |
1800 |
The first battery was invented by Volta |
| 24 |
1807 |
The first steamboat was invented by Fulton |
| 31 |
1814 |
The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson |
| 47 |
1830 |
The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England |
| 56 |
1839 |
Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber, opening the door for tires and other rubber products. |
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1844 |
The first telegraph message is sent by Morse, who later invents the Mores Code |
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1853 |
The process of creating steel is invented by Besermer in Britain and Kelly in the U.S. |
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1800 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC |
| 28 |
1811 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians. |
| 29 |
1812 |
NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured. |
| 45 |
1828 |
Gold is discovered in Georgia. |
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1834 |
July 9 - The S.S. John Randolph, the first successful iron steamship, is launched in Savannah |
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1788 |
South Carolina joins the United States of America. State government is moved from Charleston to Columbia two years later. |
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1830 |
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union, setting the stage for the creation of the Confederacy. |
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1787 |
Constitution of the United States is signed |
| 10 |
1793 |
Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role. |
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1794 |
The United States establishes the Navy |
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1798 |
Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida, |
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1803 |
Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans. |
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1804 |
The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL. |
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1805 |
Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a “horse path” through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier. |
| 23 |
1806 |
Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread. |
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1811 |
By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians. |
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1820 |
The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands. |
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1830 |
Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins. |
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1835 |
Second Seminole Indian War begins. |
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1837 |
The trickery used to capture Seminole Indian Chief Osceola (Assi Yohola) creates a public uproar and U.S. General Jesup is publicly condemned. |
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1840 |
Oregon Trail is established |
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1842 |
Second Seminole Indian War ends and thousands of Seminole Indians are forced to move west of the Mississippi. |
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1787 |
Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey |
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1788 |
Russia begins war with Sweden |
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1789 |
French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium |
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1792 |
French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year |
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1793 |
Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland. |
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1795 |
White Terror and bread riots in Paris |
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1796 |
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais |
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1797 |
Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa |
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1833 |
Santa Anna is elected President of Mexico |
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| Sarah Manning
Born about 1785 and died about 1870
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The Children of Willson Coward / Cowan
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Catherine' Kiddy' Ann Coward / Cowan
Born in Marion Co., South Carolina about 1814 and died in Fountain, Florida about 1861. She was about 47 years old.
Parents: Wilson and Sarah Manning Coward.
The actual date of Catherine's death has come under question. It has been said that she died in childbirth, possibly giving birth to Catherine E...
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