McGowan Family Genealogy
" Life In the Past Lane "
Welcome researchers! Welcome family! This site is a collection of genealogical information of my McGowan ancestors, from many sources collected and shared . Some of the information comes from my own work searching databases, www, microfilm, books, and the like. Other information has been graciously passed to me from fellow family researchers and members. If you are a researcher, my hope is that here you will find a lead. If you descend from
people recorded here, contact me. I am Victoria Taylor-True - Daughter of Mary Jane GARDNER and Keith Bremmen TAYLOR. My direct tree lines are
GARDNER, TAYLOR. My other lines are listed at the entrance of "Life in the Past Lane" index. If you are related to any of the lineages listed please contact me.
Yeah that is a picture of me in 1983 in olden days attire. I know I was born in the wrong generation. I do so love the times of yesteryear. My mother says I look like my great-aunts on the Gardner side, when they were young, so as we find and locate pictures, I guess we will find out just how much I do.
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Victoria Taylor True
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Share information and help us fill our family Hall of Time. Time stands still for no man and our heritage grows daily. If there is a story or info you can share regarding family history or info please email me to post it. I will be updating and adding new pictures and pages detailing each ancestor with a page, pictures and info.as it becomes available. Anything you have-- feel free to share, as I can use all the help I can get to complete this for future generations.
Please sign the Guestbook as you are visiting and also post/email any info that you would like regarding any lines.
If you have a family reunion related to our lineage please contact me and I will put it on the group/s.
~~ Thanks * Vickie
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My lines:
- 11 . ___ McGowan md ___
- 10. Francis McGowan and Margaret Patterson GGGGGG- Grandparents
- 9. Margaret Ann McGowan md Lt David Cox, Sr. GGGGG- Grandparents
- 8. Joshua McGowan Cox md. Ruth Osborne GGGG- Grandparents
- 7. Jane "Jennie" Cox md Benjamin Ward GGG- Grandparents
- 6. John Ward d. 1839 md. Nancy Jane DAVIS GG- Grandparents
- 5. Phoebe Jane Ward md William David Pennington - G- Grandparents
- 4. Bessie Alice Clara Pennington md Fred B Taylor - Grandparent
- 3. Keith Bremmen Taylor md Mary Jane Gardner - Parents
- 2 Victoria Lynn Taylor 1952 (ME)
- 1 my children
To view a sur-name Go to the INDEX [opens a new window]
So this is the starting point --at this time, lets see where we grow to.
- ___ McGowan md ____
- Francis McGowan and Margaret Patterson
- 1 Margaret Ann McGowan, abt 1760 in Augusta Co., VA. b 1740's SEE BELOW
- Margaret Ann McGowan, b 1740's d Apr. 1811 in Grayson Co., VA. md Lt David Cox, Sr., abt 1760 in Augusta Co., VA. b around the 1730's in Lancaster Co., PA, d 1819 in Grayson Co., VA. son of
--- believed to be buried at the Lt. David Cox Cemetery in Grayson Co., VA, located just north of the North Carolina state line between State Route 629 and a loop of the New River.
View COX family lines continued on the COX Website
- 1 Anne Cox, born c.1760's, Botetourt Co., VA;
- 2 Joshua McGowan Cox b. Jan. 20, 1766, Botetourt Co., VA md. Ruth Osborne GGGG- Grandparents
- 7. Jane "Jennie" Cox md Benjamin Ward GGG- Grandparents
- 6. John Ward d. 1839 md. Nancy Jane DAVIS GG- Grandparents
- 5. Phoebe Jane Ward md William David Pennington - G- Grandparents
- 4. Bessie Alice Clara Pennington & Fred B Taylor - Grandparent
- 3. Keith Bremmen Taylor & Mary Jane Gardner - Parents
- 2 Victoria Lynn Taylor 1952 (ME)
- 1 my children
To view a sur-name Go to the INDEX [opens a new window]
3 John Cox, b. Apr. 4, 1771, Botetourt Co., VA;
4 Cox, Sr. ("Big Sam"), b. Mar. 6, 1773, Botetourt Co., VA;
5 Margaret Cox, b. abt. 1777, Botetourt Co., VA
6 David Cox, Jr., b. abt. 1780, Montgomery Co., VA;
7 Andrew Cox, born abt. 1780, Montgomery Co., VA;
8 Richard Cox, b. abt. 1780, Montgomery Co., VA;
9 Rankin Cox, born Nov. 30, 1783, Montgomery Co., VA;
10 Mary Cox, born c.1780's, Montgomery Co., VA;
11 Alexander Cox, b. Sept. 10, 1785, Montgomery Co., VA
12 Margaret Cox, b. abt. 1788, Montgomery Co., VA;
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I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father and his father and all our fathers, and in front to see my son and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I felt so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as tomorrow and forever. Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning and no end. And the hand of his father grasped my father's hand and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was to Time That Is and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link. And we found that we were one....
From: "How Green Was My Valley", by Richard Llewellyn
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Prayer for Genealogists
Lord, help me dig into the past
And sift the sands of time,
That I might find the roots that made
This family tree of mine.
Lord, help me trace the ancient roads
On which my fathers trod,
And led them through so many lands
To find our present sod.
Lord, help me find an ancient book
Or dusty manuscript
That's safely hidden now away
In some forgotten crypt;
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts
my soul when I can't find
The missing link between some name
that ends the same as mine.
N.
Curtis Woods
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WARNING....GENEALOGY POX; [very contagious to adults]
SYMPTOMS:
Continual complaints as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries, courthouses and internet, Has compulsion to write letters and send e-mail. Swears at mailman when he doesn't stop and leave mail. Frenquents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to [him or her] self. Has strange far away look in eyes.
TREATMENT:
Medication is useless. There is no known cure. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogy magazines and be given a quiet corner in the house where he or she can be alone.
REMARKS:
The unusual nature of this disease is...the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she seems to enjoy it!
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