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The Cowan family voyages to America from Scotland.
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Jamestown was founded being one of the very first American colonial cities.
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The battle for independence begins in America.
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John Cowan entered to Hustonville, KY to build first house in the state of KY from Virginia.
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The United States purchases the Louisiana territory from France.
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Family of Cowan’s participate in Civil War. A few fought for the North and a few for the South.
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My Great-Great Grandfather was born in Baltimore, MD.
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My Great-Great Grandmother was born. She is Laura Gaiefsky's mother.
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My Great-Great Grandmother was born. She was still alive when I was born.
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The Caranna family voyages to America from Sicily. The Caranna's is my Great- Grandmother Louise's maiden name.
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The Spanish-American War began and ended on August 12, 1898.
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My Great- Grandfather was born. He is the father of Dick Saunders.
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World War I begins
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Louise Caranna (Great-Grandmother) was born and she later married three times to get the last name of DeVault.
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She is my Great-Grandmother and she was born in Detroit, MI where she enjoyed ie skating and playing hockey.
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The stock market crashed leading the UNited States into the Great Depression.
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Hitler becomes dictator of Germany.
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America joins World War II after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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My Great-Grandfather Earl DeVault goes to World War II. He fought until D-Day in Germany.
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John Cowan Sr. was born in the same Cowan Hustonville, KY home. He is my Grandfather.
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My Grandfather Dick Saunders was born in Bellaire, OH. He was one of four children to George and Dorothy Ruth Saunders.
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Laureen Gaiefsky was born in Detroit, MI. She was one of two children. She later married John Cowan Sr.
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She was born to Earl and Louise DeVault. She later married Dick Saunders.
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The war to stop communism in Vietnam began.
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Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the "Ihave a dream" speech in front of Lincoln Memorial, with over 200,000 people watching.
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President John F. Kannedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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John Cowan Sr. leaves for the first of his two tours.
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My mother Karen was born to Dick and Claire Saunders in Bridgeport, OH. She was one of five children,
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My father John Cowan Jr. was born to John Sr. and Laureen Cowan in a Camp Lejune, NC. He was the first of two children.
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The United States men hockey team defeated the large margin winners, the Soviet Union, in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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John Cowan Jr. joins the Army as an MP. He worked in peace relations in Germany and Honduras. (John is far right)
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The space shuttle the Challenger explodes 76 seconds after launch.
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John Cowan and Karen Saunders get married in St.Clairesville, OH.
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The Berlin Wall comes down uniting Germany.
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I was born in Columbus, OH.
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Terrorism in America occured with the destroying of the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and attempts on the White House.
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Alayna Cowan was born to John and Karen in Columbus, OH.
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Louise DeVault passes away on my birthday.
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We all vacation to Aruba.
