Ralph Cowgill 1
- Born: 17 Dec 1774, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
- Marriage: Mary Carter on 3 Jul 1796 in Frederick, Virginia, USA
- Died: 18 Feb 1840, Kirkwood Township, Belmont, Ohio at age 65
 General Notes:
Ralph Cowgill was born in Berks county, Pa 1775. He went to Virginia when a young man and there learned the blacksmith trade. He married Mary Carter, of Virginia, and in 1806, he, with his wife and six children, moved to Belmont county, and located in Kirkwood township, on section thirty-one. His first improvement was a round log cabin, in which he lived for a few weeks, then he erected a hewed log house with shingle roof, (it being the first shingle roofed house in the township) in which he lived during the remainder of his life. There is a hewed log barn still remaining on the farm in a good state of preservation, 26 x 63 feet, that was built by him in 1808. He owned one section of land (No. 31) and followed farming during his sojourn in Belmont county. He reared a family of nine children, viz: Margaret, Isaac, William, Aquilla J., Tamer, Jesse, Sarah, Eliza and Ralph. All are deceased except three, Isaac, Aquilla J. and Eliza. He died in 1840; his wife survived him until 1851.
Ralph married Mary Carter on 3 Jul 1796 in Frederick, Virginia, USA. (Mary Carter was born on 22 Jan 1773 in Virginia, USA and died in 1851.)
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