Osage County KS Archives Obituaries.....COWEN, Sarah A. PALMER April 26, 1934
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The Carbondale Record
Osage County
Thursday
April 26, 1934

Sarah A. PALMER was born near Springfield, Ill., August 8, 1840 and was married
to George COWEN, Dec. 4, 1866. They moved to Kansas in the spring of 1867,
settling on a farm four miles south of what is now Scranton, then only a broad
expanse of unsettled territory. At this home Mrs. Cowen lived continuously 67
years.
To George and Sarah Cowen six children were born, Ida, Eva, John, Orval Henry
and Orin V. Cowen who died in 1875, at age one and one-half years. Thirty years
later her husband died, in 1904. After thirty years widowhood, Mrs. S.A. Cowen
died April 18, 1934, lacking only 4 months of 94 years of age. Her parents, five
brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn their loss:
T.R. Palmer, Jacksnville, Ill.; M.S. Palmer, Virden, Ill.; sister, Carrie
NICOLAY, Lyndon, Kansas; 3 sons, two daughters, 18 grandchildren and 31
great-grandchildren; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild died in infancy.
Mrs. Cowen was reared in a Christian home, was converted in early childhood. She
joined the Methodist Episcopal chruch at fourteen years of age and until her
death, was devoted to church and Christian enterprises. At the time of her death
she belonged to the Scranton M.E. church and Missionary Society. 

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