From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms108.htm
CARTER COUNTY, TENNESSEE
William G. Goowin, “age 16, born in October 1883 in Tennessee” and Martha A. Goowin, “age 13, born in February 1888 in Tennessee,” were enumerated in the 1900 census of Carter County, Enumeration District 126, page 8, living in the home of their grandmother, Emily Corden.
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Rhoda Gowen, “mulatto” [possibly Melungeon] was listed as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Carter County, Enumeration District 257, page 25, Civil District 14, Household 241-257 enumerated as:
“Gowen, Rhoda 45, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, mulatto,
illiterate, washerwoman
Nathan 20, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, illiterate, son
Mary 18, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, daughter,
illiterate
Lois 16, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, son, illiterate
Stanford 5, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, son
Emily J. 3, born in TN, father born in TN,
mother born in TN, daughter”
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