Terry Cowan Document #270 unknown book, will, unknown location William Cunnyngham Original: Bk. O, p. 131; Bk. 1, p. 250; WPA Date Written: 1 June 1853 Wife: Eliza Cunnyngham to get all the estate Son James M. Cunnyngham, 1 share Son John T. Cunnyngham, 1 share Dau. Elisabeth Ann Cunnyngham, 1 share Dau. Virginey Carline Cunnyngham, 1 share Dau. Mary L. Cunnyngham, 1 share Executor: [none listed] Date Proved: 2 Oct 1854 Signed. Witnesses: Samuel McBee, James M. Cunnyngham Codicil: If my wife should add to the family, which I expect she will, it will share as the other children do. 2 Nov 1853. No witnesses to this codicil. [From the 1860 CC census, #268, a child William was born ca 1854.] Proof as to validity of will was given by James M. Cunnyngham, W.W.Harris, & J.T. Crockett as being in handwriting of the testator, the other wtiness (McBee) now being a non-resident of this state.
Family Group sheets received from Terry Cowan, 603 Circle Drive, Bullard, Texas 75757 around 1990. 1850 Federal Census, Coffee County, TN Terry Cowan Document #219 878. Cunningham, William, 40, TN Eliza, 38, GA James, 18, TN Joh, 16, TN Elizabeth, 6, TN Virginia, 4, TN Mary, 2, TN Terry Cowan Document #222 Coffee County, TN 1860 Census 38/88. Cunningham, Eliza, 49 Virginia 13 Mary, 9 Wm. 6 ancestry.com Donna A. Tomkins DonnaTomkins@aol.com
Terry Cowan Document #42 Coffee County, TN Will Book 1, p. 51 J.M. Cunnyngham will, 9 Aug 1861. mentions the "William Cowan tract which joins James Winton"
He married Eliza Cowan or Crockett . Eliza Cowan or Crockett was born at Jackson, Georgia 27 May 1811 .
They were the parents of 6
children:
James Cunningham
born 1832.
John Cunningham
born 1834.
Elizabeth Cunningham
born 1844.
Virginia Cunningham
born 1846.
Mary Cunningham
born 1848/51.
William Cunningham
born 1854.
William Cunningham died Abt 1854 at Tennessee .
Eliza Cowan or Crockett died 22 Sep 1878 .