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

Birth1 Jan 1888Deer, Newton Co., Arkansas
Marriage28 Feb 1904Newton Co., Arkansas - Joe B. Wylie
Marriage1 May 1910Johnson Co., Arkansas - James "Jim" Millard Cowan
Death27 Feb 1960Eufaula, McIntosh Co., Oklahoma
Alt nameLaura Melissa Sparks
BurialGreenlawn Cemetery, Checotah, McIntosh Co., Oklahoma

Families

SpouseJames "Jim" Millard Cowan (1882 - 1933)
ChildFern Opal Cowan (1913 - 2002)
ChildBurral J. Cowan (1915 - 1991)
ChildErma Gale Cowan (1918 - 2000)
ChildDale Olen Cowan (1920 - 1997)
ChildDonald L. Cowan (1922 - 2002)
ChildLaura Olean Cowan (1925 - 2009)
ChildDoris Ina Cowan (1929 - 1979)
ChildYale Keith Cowan (1933 - 2004)
SpouseJoe B. Wylie (1886 - 1910)
ChildEdna Gertrude Wylie (1908 - )

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