The Coward family newsletter
(Periodical)

Semi-Annual

Annual (1971-1986); semiannual (1987- ) published just before and just after each annual reunion.

No. 1 (Dec 1971) - no. 63 (Apr 2001); vol. 1 no. 1 (Nov 2001) - vol. 5 no. 1 (Apr 2005); Nov 2005 -

Editor: Jo Ann Smith (1971-1986); Trudy Adams (Sept 1986-Apr 2001); Lynn Nichols Riggsbee (Nov 2001- ).

Earliest publication information was taken from issue no. 44 (July 1991), p. 3.

Published: Raleigh, North Carolina; Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina.

Some pages are torn, faded, or otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (21 Nov. 2005).

Includes bibliographic references.

No. 43 (April 1991) issue was mis-printed as no. 37, and was later corrected. Consecutive "whole" number designations ceased with no. 63 (April 2001). Volume and issue number designations began with vol. 1 no. 1 (November 2001). Vol. 2 no. 1 (April 2002) was followed by vol. 2 no. 2 (September 2002). Volume and issue numbering cease with vol. 5 no. 1 (Apr 2005), and was continued by month and year, only.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Coward (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and Normandy. Others named Kawar originated in Syria, and Anglicized their names to Cowart as they immigrated to America. Early ancestors settled in Barbados, and in Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in the 1600-1700s. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Nathan Coward (b. 1818) who settled in Cullowhee, Jackson County, North Carolina. He married Jane Rogers (b. 1820), then after Jane's death, he married Sophia Hedden. Some Cowards immigrated first to Canada, then to the United States. Nathan's children were Clara Coward Smith, Tolvin Berry Coward, Jonathan David Coward, Mary Alice Coward Zachary, Oscar Bowman Coward, Sallie Jane Coward Norton, Robert Rogers Coward, John Homer Coward, and Frances Emeline Coward Glenn. Some married into the Clark Allen and Lewis J. Smith families. During the 1800s, some Cowards settled in Canada, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. Later descendants also live in Australia, Africa, and in Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. Some have African American bloodlines. Some have Cherokee, and other American Indian bloodlines. Information about births, deaths, marriages, and residence was transcribed or extracted from census records, correspondence, deeds, indenture records, published histories and genealogies, reunion reports, shared research, and other sources from the 1600s to the present.

Also available on microfiche.

Cowart Family Association was established in 1994 in Arlington, Georgia. Its focus is on the descendants of Zachariah Coward of Early County, Georgia. They published "Climbing Trees.".