Rev William McCOWAN
Birth 1816
Virginia, USA
Death 28 Jul 1890 (aged 73–74)
Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Rob Newsome Cemetery
Floyd County, Kentucky, USA
He was the son of Hugh McCOWAN. He married Jemima OSBORNE in 1839 in Pike County, Ky.
Regular Baptist Church. William Mccown was a Primitive and Old Regular Baptist Minister, with service in many churches in Pike and Floyd Counties from the late 1830's to at least 1881. He was the elected moderator of the Long Fork Old Reg. Baptist Church (Long Fork, Pike Co. KY) when it was formed in 1877, as an arm of 8 original members out of the Mt. Zion Church near Craynor in Floyd Co. (copy of original records)
There was shortly a dispute over doctrine and Elder Wm. McCown, and his wife Jemima Osborne, left Long Fork and moved back over to Floyd Co, where they are found on the 1880 Floyd Co. census. Elder McCown is recorded in the 1878, 1879 and 1880 Old Reg. Baptist minutes as being associated with the Antioch Church and also the New Salem Assn.
William McCown is buried in the Rob Newsome Cemetery in Floyd Co. Kentucky. He was also listed as illiterate.
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