06. Margaret Jane Cowan, 1900
6. Margaret Jane Cowan (Jane)
Margaret was born in 1900 and, I suppose, she was named after her grandmother.
She was called Jane. Jim and Inga had been farming at Anselm for two years when
Jane was born. As a little girl she traveled with her mother several times by train down
to Highlandville, Iowa to visit her aunts and uncles there. She was about seven when
the family moved to a farm near Buffalo and nine when they moved to Enderlin and would have been in the fourth grade at Enderlin School then.
Jane was an impulsive girl who sometimes got into trouble with her pranks and she wasn't very ambitious
about school. Mostly she worked on the farm and when she grew up she got a job for a time helping with
farming for a farmer near Moorhead, MN.
According to my mother, Jane was a nice person to be with and, "Funnier than all get out." Mother tells
a story of once when Harriet, Pearl, and Esther and Walter were with Jane on a drive up by the farm at
Granville. They were going down the gravel road when the steering wheel came off. So Jane handed it to
the folks in the back seat and said, "Here, you can drive!" Life must have been hard for her and I'm sure
there are more stories.
Jane had at least one crazy job - at one time she was the "Spider Woman" in a traveling carnival and side
show that traveled around to towns in the area!
I have heard that she was married at one time and later divorced or separated and also that she was an
alcoholic. Jane had no children. The 1930 U.S. Census lists her as Margaret Annette, wife of Carrol Annette
and they were living in Fargo, Cass County. ND. The 1920 U.S. Census lists Carroll Annette, born in 1901, age
19 and a single white male living in Sherburne County.
I have been told that in the early 1940's Jane lived for a time with a man who owned a turkey farm at
Morehead. I suspect that this was her husband Carroll and they were actually in Fargo. Lois Clairmont
remembers the family going up to visit Margaret on the farm [in Fargo] for vacations when she was a little girl.
Jane died suddenly of a heart attack on 30 Dec, 1948 at age 48 at Riverton, in Clay County, MN. Riverton
is a little town about five miles west of Crosby in the Brainard lakes area. The Minnesota Death and Burials
1835-1990 record shows that she was married to Carrol Annette at the time of her death. Jane is buried at
Crystal Lake Cemetery, section 26, in Minneapolisjust a few yards away and in the same row by her mother
and father, Inga and Jim Cowan. The cemetery record shows her name as Margaret Annette but her grave
marker shows her name as Margaret Cowan. Jane was married to Carrol Annette from at least years 1930
to the time of her death in 1948. I have no further information about her.
Margaret was born in 1900 and, I suppose, she was named after her grandmother.
She was called Jane. Jim and Inga had been farming at Anselm for two years when
Jane was born. As a little girl she traveled with her mother several times by train down
to Highlandville, Iowa to visit her aunts and uncles there. She was about seven when
the family moved to a farm near Buffalo and nine when they moved to Enderlin and would have been in the fourth grade at Enderlin School then.
Jane was an impulsive girl who sometimes got into trouble with her pranks and she wasn't very ambitious
about school. Mostly she worked on the farm and when she grew up she got a job for a time helping with
farming for a farmer near Moorhead, MN.
According to my mother, Jane was a nice person to be with and, "Funnier than all get out." Mother tells
a story of once when Harriet, Pearl, and Esther and Walter were with Jane on a drive up by the farm at
Granville. They were going down the gravel road when the steering wheel came off. So Jane handed it to
the folks in the back seat and said, "Here, you can drive!" Life must have been hard for her and I'm sure
there are more stories.
Jane had at least one crazy job - at one time she was the "Spider Woman" in a traveling carnival and side
show that traveled around to towns in the area!
I have heard that she was married at one time and later divorced or separated and also that she was an
alcoholic. Jane had no children. The 1930 U.S. Census lists her as Margaret Annette, wife of Carrol Annette
and they were living in Fargo, Cass County. ND. The 1920 U.S. Census lists Carroll Annette, born in 1901, age
19 and a single white male living in Sherburne County.
I have been told that in the early 1940's Jane lived for a time with a man who owned a turkey farm at
Morehead. I suspect that this was her husband Carroll and they were actually in Fargo. Lois Clairmont
remembers the family going up to visit Margaret on the farm [in Fargo] for vacations when she was a little girl.
Jane died suddenly of a heart attack on 30 Dec, 1948 at age 48 at Riverton, in Clay County, MN. Riverton
is a little town about five miles west of Crosby in the Brainard lakes area. The Minnesota Death and Burials
1835-1990 record shows that she was married to Carrol Annette at the time of her death. Jane is buried at
Crystal Lake Cemetery, section 26, in Minneapolisjust a few yards away and in the same row by her mother
and father, Inga and Jim Cowan. The cemetery record shows her name as Margaret Annette but her grave
marker shows her name as Margaret Cowan. Jane was married to Carrol Annette from at least years 1930
to the time of her death in 1948. I have no further information about her.