Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Abigail Cowles

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Cowles 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Stanley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jan 1663/1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1717 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • May 1678 
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  • Child:

  William Porter (Ahnentafel No:32 )

• Sources for Abigail Cowles

  • ¹ Cowles, Col. Calvin Duvall, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America, Vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1929), 38-39.
  • ² Hurlburt, Mabel S., Farmington Town Clerks and Their Times (1645-1940), Hartford, Connecticut: Press of Finlay Brothers (1943), 369.