Individual Details
Laura Melissa Sparks
(1 Jan 1888 - 27 Feb 1960)
The Indian Journal, Eufaula, Oklahoma, Thursday, March 3, 1960, Page 1: Laura M. Cowan Rites Held Today. Funeral services for Mrs. Laura M. Cowan, 72, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday (today) in the Assembly of God Church here with the pastor, Reverend Harold Stockton officiating. Mrs. Cowan, a long-time resident of Checotah and Eufaula, died at her home Saturday. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery at Checotah directed by Kelley Funeral Home. She is survived by four sons, Burl of Checotah, Dale of Bakersfield, California, Don of Henryetta and Yale of Midwest City and five daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Cowan, Wewoka, Mrs. Fern Pendergraft, Henryetta, Mrs. Erma Grisby [Grigsby], Checotah, and Mrs. Olean Reeves, Eufaula, and Mrs. Doris Jones, Taft, California.
Events
Families
Spouse | James "Jim" Millard Cowan (1882 - 1933) |
Child | Fern Opal Cowan (1913 - 2002) |
Child | Burral J. Cowan (1915 - 1991) |
Child | Erma Gale Cowan (1918 - 2000) |
Child | Dale Olen Cowan (1920 - 1997) |
Child | Donald L. Cowan (1922 - 2002) |
Child | Laura Olean Cowan (1925 - 2009) |
Child | Doris Ina Cowan (1929 - 1979) |
Child | Yale Keith Cowan (1933 - 2004) |
Spouse | Joe B. Wylie (1886 - 1910) |
Child | Edna Gertrude Wylie (1908 - ) |
Endnotes
4. Dr. Michael S. Cole, Cowan Connections (n.p: 1994, n.d), Page 60.
5. Dr. Michael S. Cole, Cowan Connections (n.p: 1994, n.d), Page 60-61.
7. U. S. Gen Web Site.