In looking at the bio of James Clayton above I noticed that I should have also posted another biography (that of George Limerick Cowan) which adds the Ballykelly connection. It is as follows.
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George Limerick Cowan, of Franklin Tenn., was born twenty miles from Londonderry, at Bally Kelly, County Derry, Ireland], Oct. 15, 1842. His father, Robert W. Cowan, was born in 1800, in the same place, was a farmer and one of the few who owned land. His wife was Hannah Limerick, also a native of Ireland. In 1851 they came to the United States and settled at Shelbyville, Bedford county, Tenn., where he bought a grist-mill, which he conducted in connection with his farm. In 1858 he sold the mill and devoted his attention to farming exclusively. He was known as the original secessionist of Bedford county and was very active in the serive. Both he and his wife lived to be nearly three score and ten years old. They had ten children, all but one of them still living. George L. received his education in the common schools, and in July, 1859, he engaged in the wholesale dry goods business at Nashville, in which he was engaged at the breaking out of the war. He assisted Capt. Montgomery Little to raise a company which was sworn into the Confederate service as an escort company for Gen. N. B. Forrest. At the end of a year Mr. Cowan was elected orderly sergeant, late was promoted to third lieutenant, then second lieutenant, and as such had command of the company at the time of the final surrender at Gainesville, Ala., May 10, 1865. He took part in all of the engagements in which Forrest's command had a part until the close. Returning to Shelbyville, he put in a crop on the home place, and later attended school for six months. In 1866 he associated himself with a wholesale house in Nashville and remained there for three years, when he organized a company known as Kinkade, Hanley & Co., wholesale druggusts, with which firm he remained until 1877. He then became a leading spirity in the firm of Cowan & Co., wholesale notions, but disposed of this interests in this house in 1887 and removed to his farm near Franklin. He was married Jan, 3. 1884, to Miss Hattie McGavock, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John McGavock. After his marriage he erected a neat cottage on their place, a part of the McGavock farm, and this has since been their home. Five children have been born to them, three boys and two girls. Mr. Cowan carried on general farming and stock raising, beng quite an extensive breeder of high class roadsters. He is one of the trustees of the Confederate Cemetery Company for twelve years; has been secretary of the Bicouac of Confederate soldiers; is a member of Hiram lodge No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons; has held all the chairs in that lodge; was delegate to the Grand Lodge for twenty years; has held every chair in Franklin chapter; is now grand king of the Grand chapter of the state; a member of Orestes lodge No. 10. Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Democrat and has always been chairman of the county executive committee in 1892-93. Of Scotch-Irish descent, he finds the Presbyterian church his natural home and has been an elder of that church for forty years. For fifteen years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Cowan was engaged in the insurance business in Franklin for seven years. He is an expert accountant and does a great deal of that kind of work. The family home is one mile south of Franklin, and is a very pretty and attractive place [Allison, John. Notable men of Tennessee: Personal and genealogical, with portraits. Atlanta, GA: Southern Historical Association, 1905. p. 138-139].
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