COWSERT PHOTOGRAPHS


These two little girls are supposed to be Ethel Cowsert Doggett and Maria Cowsert, per the back of the photo.

I believe "Cowsert" is not the correct surname for Maria because Ethel, born in 1900, is supposed to be the first Cowsert child born to Wilda. Maria may be a Soward (Wilda's first marriage) Maria died at the age of five (per Pauline Phillips, Wilda's granddaughter). I don't think the older girl looks at all like pictures of Ethel I have seen; she definitely looks like her mother, Wilda Banks Soward Cowsert (see photo below). The smaller child has the "Cowsert" look, in my opinion.

I don't know when the photograph was taken, but guess about 1905-10. For no particular reason, I believe the older girl is Verbie or Vergie Soward and the younger one may be Lulu Cowsert ... a name I have heard mentioned, but cannot place.


WILDA ALICE BANKS SOWARD COWSERT
August 7, 1873 - 1911


MARJORIE JEWELL COWSERT DAVIS LEAR
January 4, 1909 - December 30, 1990


ETHEL IDA COWSERT DOGGETT (with glasses)


RAYMOND OMER COWSERT, LEORA ALLINE COWSERT, AND ELENORA IRENE COWSERT


COWSERT FAMILY 1935
Santa Ana, California



First row: Dorothy, Elzida, Bertha, Richard
Second row: Raymond, Elenora, George (Leora's husband), and Leora

VERBA EATHEL SOWARD SCOTT
WILLIS SCOTT
BERTHA NATION COWSERT
RICHARD ANDREW COWSERT



AUGUST 16, 1942


Front row: Paul Lerno, Deloris Lerno (holding Susan Patterson), Richard Patterson, Jerry Patterson, Dorothy Lerno.

Second row: Gertie Scott, Ruth Scott, Eathel Scott Carter

Third row: Elenora Cowsert, Bertha Cowsert, Dorothy Cowsert, and Verba Scott.

BERTHA AND RICHARD COWSERT
March 22, 1942


August 16, 1942



First row: Elenora Cowsert, Doloris Lerno, Paul Lerno, Richard Patterson, Jerry Patterson, Dorothy Lerno, Elzida Cowsert

Second row: Leora Cowsert Lerno, holding Susan Patterson, Dorothy Cowsert, Bertha, Verba Scott, Gertie Scott.

BERTHA AND RICHARD COWSERT
November 1944


RICHARD COWSERT AND MARJORIE COWSERT DAVIS LEAR
October 26, 1947


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