Mrs. Carrie Cowan Endean

According to the June 10, 1972 issue of the Sandusky Register, Mrs. Carrie Cowan Endean passed away on June 1, 1972 in Carbondale, Illinois. Funeral services for Mrs. Endean were held in Sandusky on June 11, 1972, with the Rev. James Baldwin from the the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Mrs. Endean was buried at Oakland Cemetery. She was the mother of Mrs. William F. Burger, the wife of a longtime physician in Sandusky, Ohio. A marker from the Daughters of the American Revolution adorns the tombstone of Mrs. Carrie Cowan Endean.


















By performing a search in the Descendants Database of the D.A.R. Genealogical Research System, I was able to learn a great deal of family history information related to Mrs. Endean. She was born on January 27, 1884 at Crawfordsville, Indiana. She married Frederick Endean on September 11, 1907. Mrs. Endean's Revolutionary ancestor was James Cowing, a native of Virgina. James Cowing furnished supplies to the American troops during the Revolutionary War, according to the VIRGINIA PUBLIC SERVICE CLAIMS INDEX.

O.S. and Ethel Bardwell Alcott

In 1899, Otho S. Alcott married Ethel Bardwell, the only daughter of Seth E. and Celestia Bardwell. O.S. Alcott operated a haberdashery at the corner of Columbus Ave. and East Washington Row for many years, his father having begun this business. In his later years, Mr. Alcott was engaged in the banking and insurance business. After a lengthy illness, O. S. Alcott passed away on May 26, 1932. He was buried in Castalia Cemetery. His obituary is found in the set of OBITUARY NOTEBOOKS in the genealogical collections of the Sandusky Library.

Mrs. Ethel Bardwell Alcott survived her husband by many years. She died in 1969, and was buried with her husband in the Castalia Cemetery. Mrs. Bardwell was a member of the Martha Pitkin Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. According to the lineage books of the D.A.R., whose records are on file at Ancestry Library Edition, Ethel Bardwell Alcott had three ancestors who participated in the American Revolution: Seth Bardwell, Remembrance Bardwell, and Daniel White.