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Author: Vincjac
Surnames: Canaday, Cowart, Powell
Classification: queries
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I'd like more information on the family as I am the Historic Preservation Planner for
the region and there is a lot of unknown information regarding the family and their Native
American ancestry. There was a Canaday Fort there at one time and I visited the Canaday
Cemetery the other day. A DOT project is scheduled to replace the bridge there and the
cemetery was studied and determined eligible for the National Register. I could e-mail
you the pertinent sections of that report containing maps and pictures of the cemetery
(including his spelled John Millage Canaday and Missouri Powell Canaday's replaced
gravestones). She was his wife and possibly Chief Osceola's sister. Also have picture
of Abel Cowart tombstone (6/7/1801-4/24/1894) in same cemetery. It would be in a big adobe
file. Also interested in the Coleraine conncetion, as we have a old town further down
river with that name from before the 1790s. I did not realize that there was a connection
between the Canadays !
and that village in Ireland. My e-mail address is mvjacobs(a)segardc.org
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