OBIT: Elizabeth COWEN, 1903, Taylor Township, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ELIZABETH COWEN,

Widow of David Cowen, died at the home of her daughters, Annie Cowen 
and Mrs. Mary Baker, on the Cowen homestead, one mile south of Roaring 
Spring, at 1 o'clock on December 24, after a lingering illness of a 
year or more. She was a kind and pious Christian mother, who always 
delighted in doing a generous act. She was the mother of Albert F. 
Cowen, Elias C. Cowen, Mrs. Mary Baker and Annie Cowen, who reside near 
Roaring Spring; Rev. George L. Cowen, D.D., of California, and Dr. 
Edward D. Cowen, of South Dakota. The funeral took place at 10 o'clock 
this morning from her late residence, services being conducted by Rev. 
C. H. Grove. Interment was made in Greenlawn cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, December 26, 1903, p. 10, col. 2

1880 Taylor Township, Blair County census - 
David Cowen, 57  
Elizabeth Cowen, 53  
Mary Cowen, 26  
Elias Cowen, 22  
Martha Cowen, 19  
Edward Cowen, 17