SARAH MARGARET KEITH was born Abt. 1778 in Bedford County, VA, and died Abt. 1849 in Titus County, TX. She was the second child of NICHODEMUS KEITH and MARGARET BORDEN. She married SAMUEL COWAN Abt. 1800 in Tennessee. He was born Bef. 1780, and died Bef. 1840.
More About SAMUEL COWAN and SARAH KEITH:
- Marriage: Abt. 1800, Tennessee
Child of SARAH KEITH and SAMUEL COWAN is:
| (1) Stephen Cowan | b. March 07, 1825, Tishomingo County, Mississippi; d. October 11, 1907, Checotah, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. |
Generation No. 2
STEPHEN COWAN was born March 07, 1825 in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, and died October 11, 1907 in Checotah, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. He was the son of Sarah Margaret Keith and Samuel Cowan. He married ELIZABETH LONG February 07, 1847 in Buzzards Roost, Franklin County, Alabama. She was born May 06, 1828 in Tennessee, and died August 13, 1898 in Micawber, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.
More About STEPHEN COWAN and ELIZABETH LONG:
- Marriage: February 07, 1847, Buzzards Roost, Franklin County, Alabama
Child of STEPHEN COWAN and ELIZABETH LONG is:
| (1) JAMES MARTIN COWAN | b. March 17, 1857, Johnson County, Arkansas; d. December 07, 1911, Lamar, Johnson County, Arkansas. |
Generation No. 3
JAMES MARTIN COWAN was born March 17, 1857 in Johnson County, Arkansas, and died December 07, 1911 in Lamar, Johnson County, Arkansas. He married SARAH M. WILLIS October 02, 1877 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She was born Abt. 1862, and died Abt. 1883.
More About JAMES COWAN and SARAH WILLIS:
- Marriage: October 02, 1877, Johnson County, Arkansas
Child of JAMES COWAN and SARAH WILLIS is:
| (1) HENRY ARTHUR COWAN | b. Abt. 1882, Arkansas |
Generation No. 4
HENRY ARTHUR COWAN was born Abt. 1882 in Arkansas. He married JULIA ANN CULLUM May 09, 1903 in Johnson County, Arkansas.
More About HENRY COWAN and JULIA CULLUM:
- Marriage: May 09, 1903, Johnson County, Arkansas
Child of HENRY COWAN and JULIA CULLUM is:
| (1) MILDRED FRANCES COWAN | b. 1904, Johnson County, Arkansas; m. JOHN VIRGIL TURNER; b. Abt. 1896. |
MILDRED FRANCES COWAN was born 1904 in Johnson County, Arkansas. She married JOHN VIRGIL TURNER. He was born Abt. 1896.
Child of MILDRED COWAN and JOHN TURNER is:
| (1) JULIA JEAN TURNER | b. February 08, 1921, Wallace, Idaho; d. June 29, 1995, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. |
Notes for JULIA JEAN TURNER:
Cropped screenshot of Lana Turner from the trailer for the film Love Finds Andy Hardy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
AKA Lana Turner. American film actress known for her glamorous looks and sexual allure. Though her skill as an actress was limited, Turner excelled in roles that highlighted her sexuality and working-class roots. She enjoyed her greatest popularity in the 1940s and ’50s, often playing the part of a “good girl gone bad.”
Turner endured a difficult childhood. After the family moved to San Francisco, her parents separated and she was placed in a foster home (where she was abused). Soon thereafter her father was murdered. Turner was reunited with her mother, and in 1936 they moved to Los Angeles, where, as legend has it, the golden-haired starlet was “discovered” at a drugstore soda fountain by a Hollywood film journalist. That led to a small part in Warner Brothers’ They Won’t Forget (1937), directed by Mervyn LeRoy, who suggested she drop her nickname, Judy, for something more glamorous; she chose Lana. LeRoy took her with him when he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1938, and she remained under contract there until 1956.
Turner’s early film roles were undistinguished, but the tight sweater she had worn in They Won’t Forget prompted studio publicists to promote her as the “Sweater Girl,” and the sexy photographs she posed for were in great demand. American servicemen later made her one of their favourite pinups during World War II.
Encouraged by this interest, MGM costarred her as a showgirl in the glamorous Ziegfeld Girl (1941). She then starred in several romantic dramas opposite some of the studio’s biggest male leads, including Clark Gable in Honky Tonk (1941) and Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942) and Robert Taylor in Johnny Eager (1942). Her most memorable role, however, was that of a murderous adulteress in the film noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her later box office hits include The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Peyton Place (1957), Imitation of Life (1959), and Madame X (1966). Thereafter she occasionally appeared in minor film melodramas and such television soap operas as Falcon Crest.
Turner’s screen roles often mirrored her tumultuous private life. Her seven husbands included bandleader Artie Shaw and movie-Tarzan Lex Barker, and she was romantically linked to numerous other men. She made headlines nationwide when her 14-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed to death Turner’s abusive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. Turner’s account of her life, Lana–the Lady, the Legend, the Truth, was published in 1982.
There is a great excerpt from her book that tells a bit of her history at this site
Born of Texas 