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# ID: I0171
# Name: Sarah Elizabeth COWAN
# Sex: F
# Birth: JAN 1875 in Ark.
# Death: 28 FEB 1919 in Holdenville, Okla.
# Note: At the age of thirteen, Sara was raped by a step brother and had a child and named him James Pierce, she late rmarried a man with the last name of Armstrong. She had 2 children with Mr. Armstrong, Bloom and Effie. She then married Dill Asher Collins. She died of flu complication, and her younger children went into an orphanage.
Father: William COWAN b: 1848 in Tennessee
Mother: MARTHY
Marriage 1 Unknown ARMSTRONG
      * Married: 1889 in Ark.
Children
     1. Has No Children James A PIERCE b: JAN 1888
     2. Has No Children Bloom A. ARMSTRONG b: OCT 1890
     3. Has No Children Effie ARMSTRONG
Marriage 2 Dill (Dillingson) Asher COLLINS b: JAN 1858 in Fallingsprings, Missouri
    * Married: 6 MAR 1899
Children
   1. Has No Children Elmer COLLINS
     2. Has No Children Lottie COLLINS
     3. Has Children Cynthia Ann COLLINS b: 10 OCT 1900 in Jasper Ark.
     4. Has No Children William M. COLLINS b: 1902
     5. Has Children Ollie Elvada COLLINS b: 14 JUL 1904
     6. Has No Children Jeff COLLINS b: 1906
     7. Has No Children Albert Lee COLLINS b: 1909

I don't know about this story.  I don't see how either of her parents had another marriage, so where did the step brother come from?
I don't think this is our William Cowan.  1900 Census says Martha (dosher) Cowan had 7 children, 7 living.