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Mary Clymer (Palmer) Cowgill (abt. 1808 - 1874)

Mary Clymer Cowgill formerly Palmer
Born about in Kent Co., Delaware, USAmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 8 Apr 1833 in Kent Co., Delaware, USAmap
[children unknown]
Died at about age 66 in Kent Co., Delaware, USAmap
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Biography

Mary C Palmer was born in July 1808 in Kent Co., Delaware.

She married Charles Cowgill 18 April 1833 in Kent Co., Delaware. [1]

1840 census -- Duck Creek Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware, USA

Name: Charles Caregell[Charles Cowgill]
Home in 1840: Duck Creek Hundred, Kent, Delaware
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2 (William, Jacob)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 (Levick)
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 (John)
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (?)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 (Charles)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 (Elizabeth)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 (?, ?)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 (?))
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 (Mary)
Free Colored Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free Colored Persons - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 6
Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 4
Total Free White Persons: 11
Total Free Colored Persons: 2
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 13[2]

1850 census -- Duck Creek Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware, USA

Charles Cowgill, age 48, male, , farmer, born Delaware; Mary Cowgill, age 38, female, , born Delaware; Palmer Cowgill, age 15, male, , born Delaware, attended school; William Cowgill, age 12, male, , born Delaware, attended school; Elizabeth Cowgill, age 12, female, , born Delaware, attended school; Jacob Stout Cowgill, age 10, male, , born Delaware, attended school; Effa A Cowgill, age 8, female, , born Delaware, attended school; Robert Hall, age 20, male, , laborer, born Delaware; John Williams, age 20, male, black, born Delaware; Alice Caldwell, age 60, female, black, born Delaware[3]

1860 census -- Dover Hundred, Kent Co., Delaware, USA

Mary Cowgill, age 50, , female, farmer, $4000 real estate, $2000 personal property, born Pennsylvania; Levick P Cowgill, age 24, male, , born Delaware; Lizzie Cowgill, age 21, female, , born Delaware; Willie Cowgill, age 21, male, , born Delaware; Jacob Cowgill, age 19, male, , born Delaware; Effie Cowgill, age 16, female, , born Delaware; Joshua Shockley, age 12, male, black, born Delaware; Chas Warren, age 21, male, black, laborer, born Delaware, $2 personal property, cannot read/write[4]

1870 census --Kent Co., Delaware, USA

Mary Cowgill, age 61, female, white, farmer, $14000 real estate, $1000 personal property, born Pennsylvania; William Cowgill, age 32, male, white, $2500 real estate, born Delaware; Jacob S Cowgill, age 29, male, white, farm laborer, $2500 real estate, born Delaware; Effa A Cowgill, age 27, female, white, at home, born Delaware; Emma Johnson, age 17, female, white, domestic servant, born Delaware, cannot read/write[5]

She died 6 July 1874 in Kent Co., Delaware.[6]

Sources

  1. "Delaware Vital Records, 1650-1974," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQJ-XVV2 : 16 April 2022), Charles Cowgill, 18 Apr 1833; citing Marriage, United States, Delaware Public Archives, Dover; FHL microfilm .
  2. "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBF-HJX : 10 June 2022), Charles Cowgill, Duck Creek MM, Kent, Delaware, United States; citing p. 56, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .
  3. "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:MH81-752 : Wed Dec 28 16:01:17 UTC 2022), Entry for William Cowgill and Robert Hall, 1850.
  4. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:M4SH-Q6P : Tue Oct 11 00:49:26 UTC 2022), Entry for Mary Cowgill and Levick P Cowgill, 1860.
  5. "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BP-JJX : 28 May 2021), Mary C Congill, 1870.
  6. "Delaware Vital Record Index Cards, 1680-1934", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WGSN-C1MM : 16 November 2020), Mary Clymer Cowgill, 1874




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