Hello, cousins!
You may have noticed that this blog has been quiet since the big Book project wrapped up. I figured I could take a break from regular blog updates and let the last post (with links to purchase the books) stand for a while. My wife and I also bought our house in March, so I've been keeping pretty busy with domestic projects.
We did receive some sad news from our cousins in Florida this week. Glenn Ray Callin lost his battle with cancer on 2 Aug 2022. Glenn was my 1st cousin, 2x removed, and 1st cousin of my grandfather, Bob Callin. Glenn may have been the last living member of his generation - there is one more cousin descended from John H Callin (the author of the book of Civil War poetry) I have not been able to track down.
Last month, we also lost a cousin from the Cowan family - Wiley Davis Cowan, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and a former American envoy to the UN based in San Francisco, who died a few days after falling in his San Francisco apartment. Born on 11 Jan 1926, he died at San Francisco General Hospital on 11 Jun 2022 at 96 years 5 months of age.
I did not have a lot of information about Wiley in my tree, as his father, James Wiley Cowan, was in that last generation I had worked on for the Callin Family History. Wiley's neighbor, concerned that the building manager was not making an effort to find Wiley's next of kin, found my tree on Ancestry, and I was able to track down and contact his niece, Nancy, whose mother is Wiley's older sister. His sister is 99 and lives with her daughter only half an hour away from Wiley's apartment. Despite being so close, the family had apparently been estranged for 50 years, and they had no idea he was living nearby.
As always, let me know if you have questions or suggestions - the contact form on this page goes straight to my email!
