Contributed by: Barbara Cowan Olendorf

Richard Dickey Cowan (jr) is listed as 1st Lieutenant Richard D. Cowan  
of the Calvary and Battalion  State Guard, Company A, Missouri. Later, in
prisoner of war records he is listed as R.D. Cowan, 1st Liet.,Co. C, 15th
Missouri Calvary.
 
Richard Dickey Cowan (jr) 
 
Richard Dickey Cowan was named for his father, Richard Dickey Cowan,
who helped carve the second permanent settlement in S.E. Missouri from
a wilderness. The senior was born in 1782 in North Carolina but moved to
the southeastern area of the Missouri Territory in or about 1814 with his first
wife, Hannah Sietz Cowan and their children. The Senior R.D. Cowan was an
early Missouri Legislator. A number of years after  Hannah's death R.D. Cowan
known as 'the Major' or "Dickey" married Susanne Landers Wallow in 1836.
They had one child together. Their son was the junior Richard Dickey Cowan.  

















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