Lorenzo C. Cowart

b. 1869 · Louisiana

Born 1869, Louisiana

Children include Lela

Lorenzo C. Cowart was born in Louisiana about 1869. His father had been born in Mississippi and his mother in Louisiana. On 20 May 1891, at Baton Rouge, he married Mary Jane Palmer, a Louisiana girl of his own age.

They made their home in Livingston Parish, in the pine country east of Baton Rouge. In 1900 the family was living at Livingston, with daughters Rena, Ella, Leila, Hettie and Zella. By 1910 they were in Police Jury Ward 1 of the parish. Lorenzo was 41, Mary J. 40, and at home were Rena, 18, Lela, 15, Mattie, 8, Addie, 6, Connie, 4, and a baby, Bonnie. Mary's widowed mother, Mary Palmer, 76 and born in Mississippi, was living with them.

Every child the censuses name in his house was a girl, and a tenth daughter, Christine, came later. Seven of the sisters were still living in 1980, when the obituary of Lela, by then Mrs. Arch Robertson, listed the other six by their married names around Baton Rouge, Denham Springs and St. Bernard.

Children

Lela Cowart 1895-1980

Sources

Morning Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 26 December 1980, page 65; clipping on Find a Grave, memorial 45317991

Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1787-1958, Lorenza C. Cowart and Mary Jane Palmer, East Baton Rouge Parish, 1891, FamilySearch

United States, Census, 1900, Livingston, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, household of Lorenas Cowart, FamilySearch

United States, Census, 1910, Police Jury Ward 1, Livingston Parish, Louisiana, sheet 9A, household of Lorenzy C. Coward, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MPY4-CD5

Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1787-1958, Lorenza C. Cowart and Mary Jane Palmer, East Baton Rouge Parish, 1891 (FamilySearch); United States Census 1900, Livingston, Livingston Parish, Louisiana (FamilySearch); United States Census 1910, Police Jury Ward 1, Livingston Parish, sheet 9A (FamilySearch ark 1:1:MPY4-CD5); obituary of Mrs. Lela Cowart Robertson, Morning Advocate, Baton Rouge, 26 December 1980, page 65

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