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Agnes Moscrip Cowan

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Agnes Moscrip Cowan

Birth
Ontario, Canada
Death
22 Jan 1926 (aged 66)
Cottonwood County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Paullina, O'Brien County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 186
Memorial ID
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Agnes Moscrip Cowan, daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan was born at
Seaforth, Ontario, Canada on December 17, 1850 and died January 22, 1926,
aged sixty-six years, 1 month and 5 days.

In 1875 she moved with her family to Illinois; seven years later to
Paullina, Iowa. Since 1914, she made her home in Windom, Minnesota. She is
a graduate of the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught
for twenty years in Illinois and Iowa.

She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and a charter member
of Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Paullina.

A brother John and sisters Jean and Mary preceded her in death. Survivors
include four brothers and two sisters, Miss Isabel Cowan, Messers. Hector,
Robert, Andrew and Walter P. Cowan of Windom, Minn., and Mrs. William F.
Scott of Paullina, Iowa.

Her body was laid to rest in the family plot in the Paullina cemetery, being
borne by six of her nephews acting as pall bearers.

[Note: This is a scanned copy of a very badly worn newspaper, and I have
gleaned legible information. I hope it is helpful to you. ja]

Paullina Times, Paullina, Iowa, January 28, 1926, p1
Agnes Moscrip Cowan, daughter of Walter and Agnes Cowan was born at
Seaforth, Ontario, Canada on December 17, 1850 and died January 22, 1926,
aged sixty-six years, 1 month and 5 days.

In 1875 she moved with her family to Illinois; seven years later to
Paullina, Iowa. Since 1914, she made her home in Windom, Minnesota. She is
a graduate of the State Teachers College at Cedar Falls, Iowa. She taught
for twenty years in Illinois and Iowa.

She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and a charter member
of Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Paullina.

A brother John and sisters Jean and Mary preceded her in death. Survivors
include four brothers and two sisters, Miss Isabel Cowan, Messers. Hector,
Robert, Andrew and Walter P. Cowan of Windom, Minn., and Mrs. William F.
Scott of Paullina, Iowa.

Her body was laid to rest in the family plot in the Paullina cemetery, being
borne by six of her nephews acting as pall bearers.

[Note: This is a scanned copy of a very badly worn newspaper, and I have
gleaned legible information. I hope it is helpful to you. ja]

Paullina Times, Paullina, Iowa, January 28, 1926, p1


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