The Cowell Family and The History of Dunn Township Ontario

"DESCENDANT'S OF ABRAHAM COWELL WEBSITE"

WELCOME PAGE CLICK THE IMAGE OF THE COWELL FARM GATEPOST FIELD TAKEN IN 2006 IN DUNNVILLE, ONTARIO, IN THE NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.
THE COWELL FAMILIES OF HALDIMAND COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA, & MY LOYALIST ROOTS, CLICK THE ROYAL UNION FLAG IN THE NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.
THE FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP & A FATHER'S OATH, CLICK THE PHOTO OF ME & MY DAD AT LEFT.
THE RICHARDSON & PIERSON & WILLIAMS FAMILIES OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK, USA, AND MY PATRIOT AND DAR ROOTS, CLICK THE 1776 FIRST US FLAG IN THE NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.
SURNAMES & GENEALOGY CHARTS CLICK GEORGE WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTER FLAG IN NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.
THE HISTORY OF DUNN TOWNSHIP BOOK CLICK THE CANADIAN FLAG IN THE NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.
FOR "KING AND COUNTRY", THE HERO'S STORY OF MY THIRD GREAT COUSIN, PETER L. DRAKE, AND THE 28^th BATTALION CEF PAGE, CLICK THE WWI MAPLE-LEAF CAP-BADGE IN THE NAVIGATION BAR AT LEFT.

This Website is lovingly dedicated to the memory of my Grandparents, Ronald Bradford Cowell and Frances Pierson Williams Cowell, the two amazing and wonderful people who raised me. They were dedicated and self-sacrificing parents and a day never passed that I ever doubted the Love they had for me.

My Grandparents were very different than one another, but these differences never diminished their love for one another. Their differences too, were helpful to me in forming a balanced and eclectic foundation for my Journey through Life. My Grandfather encouraged self-confidence and he nurtured my creative, athletic and adventurous sides, and my Grandmother, a Teacher, encouraged me intellectually and taught me grace, style, etiquette, sensitivity and fairness. They both taught me Love and Kindness by their example. For me, my "Mamie and Pop-Pop" were the perfect Yin and Yang.

One of the few regrets I have when it comes to my Grandparents is that I didn't pay closer attention when they talked about family, and, that I didn't ask more questions. As it is so often the case, I didn't realize how important this would be until everyone was gone and it was too late.

I do have my wonderful memories though, and the stories my Grandparents passed-down to me through the years. I have as well, a box-full of items, writings, photographs, and other things my Grandmother thought would be important to me that she neatly packed-up and presented me with, three years before she died, that have also been a big help. Everything together has helped piece together a picture of the family history I have compiled here.

My sincere hope is that this Website will perpetuate the memory of my Grandmother and Grandfather's Light, and the big and beautiful families that came before them, pioneering their ways through Ontario, Canada and the North Country of Upstate New York. I hope that it will also bring together family-members that have grown into the thousands and settled in all parts of Canada, the United States and other parts of the World. I have already been re-connected with many of them, and met even more new ones! I look forward to this continuing trend!

I lost my Pop-Pop way too early in 1972, and Mamie was 92 in 1998 when she was finally able to be reunited with him, her one and only true-love. I still miss them both terribly. I will always be grateful though... that there were once two people who loved me, and were proud enough of me, to make me their own and love me unconditionally. Never once do I remember either ever saying "I Love You" followed with a "But". They both simply loved me for me... and I them.

I Love You... Mamie and Pop-Pop... Forever and Always...

Martha Cowell-Calloway

5^th Great-Granddaughter of Sgt. Rufus Richardson – Revolutionary War Veteran & Original Member of George Washington’s Commander-in-Chief’s Guard b. 1760 in Worchester, Massachusetts d. 1841 in Village of Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York.
3^rd Great-Granddaughter of Abraham Cowell – Revolutionary War Soldier & United Empire Loyalist b. 1753 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, d. 1849 in Sherbrooke Township, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
2nd Great-Granddaughter of Henry Bradford Pierson – Civil War Veteran – 20^th New York Cavalry – b. 1845 in Pamelia Township, Jefferson County, New York d. 1923 in Woodville, Jefferson County, New York.
Granddaughter of Ronald Bradford Cowell - WWII Veteran - United States Army - b. 1902 in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada, d. 1972, in Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida.

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