CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ezra Oliver Cowan, 12 Nov 1953 ----¤¤¤---- Obituary appeared in the Friday, November 13, 1953 Elizabethton Star Ezra Oliver Cowan, 80, died at his home in the Sugar Grove section of Johnson County, Thursday afternoon after an illness of several months. Mr. Cowan was a native of Johnson County and a member of the Sugar Grove Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Fronia Cowan of Butler, four sons, Smith of Winston Salem, N.C., Von Ray and Ronda, of Butler and Wiley, of Johnson city; six daughters, Mrs. A.D. greenwell, Mrs. S.H. Dean, Mrs. F.L. Dugger, Mrs. Wade Snyder, of Butler; Mrs. C.A. Anderson, of Elizabethton, Mrs. J.J. Stelzer, of Miami, Fla.; thirty three grandchildren, eight great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted from the Sugar Grove Baptist Church, Sunday at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Ronda Earp and the Rev. Victor Trivett officiating. Burial will be made in the family cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Warren Dugger, Spencer Guy, Mack Wolf, Wallace Dugger, Glen Dugger and France Holloway. Flower bearers will be selected from friends. The body will be returned to the home Saturday morning. Roy Hathaway Funeral Home is in charge. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Steve Peters sspeter2@bellsouth.net ___________________________________________________________________