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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Hazel Virginia Rowan: Birth: 08 Nov 1914 in Wiggins, Stone, Mississippi, USA. Death: 14 Sep 1998 in Metairie, Jefferson, Louisiana, USA

  2. Jeanette Charlotte "Jackie" Rowan: Birth: 6 Feb 1917 in Bogalusa, Washington County, Louisiana, USA. Death: 6 Jan 2004 in Kentucky, USA

  3. Wilford Thomas Rowan: Birth: 28 May 1922 in Kiln, Hancock Co., Mississippi, USA. Death: 11 Jan 2007 in Lake Park, Palm Beach, Florida, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Bogalusa Enterprise at Newspapers.com
Page:   Found in Bogalusa Enterprise in Bogalusa, Louisiana on Thu, Aug 31, 1916.
Source:   S-1081735781
2. Title:   Newspapers.com - The Times-Democrat - 5 Oct 1913 - Page 52
Page:   Virginia Strahan was known as Virgie to some. 5 Oct 1913
Publication:   The Times-Democrat
3. Title:   Newspapers.com - Jackson Daily News - 4 Jan 1914 - Page 3
Page:   Poplarville Notes: the "very popular" Virginia Strahan and Wilford Hall Rowan to marry. 4 Jan 1914
Publication:   Jackson Daily News
4. Title:   Newspapers.com - The Times-Democrat - 7 Dec 1913 - Page 40
Page:   7 Dec 1913
Publication:   The Times-Democrat
5. Title:   1910 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1910; Census Place: Poplarville, Pearl River, Mississippi; Roll: T624_753; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 107; Image: 540.
Source:   S-2119055188
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the Unit
6. Title:   1900 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1900; Census Place: Orvisburg, Pearl River, Mississippi; Roll: T623 824; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 83.
Source:   S-2119031855
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623,
7. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1920; Census Place: Beat 4, Hancock, Mississippi; Roll: T625_876; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 34; Image: 378.
Source:   S-2119031861
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 on roll 323 (Chicago City.Original data - United States
8. Title:   Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935
Source:   S-2119031848
Author:   Hunting For Bears, comp.
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - Mississippi marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfich
9. Title:   1940 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1940; Census Place: Bentonia, Yazoo, Mississippi; Roll: T627_2080; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 82-1
Source:   S-1081724902
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
10. Title:   South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1961
Source:   S-1081724894
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations Inc

Notes
a. Note:   Notes by M. E. Rowan Virginia Strahan Rowan and her husband Wilford Hall "Doc" Rowan were talented musicians who had their own vaudeville troupe, the Dixie Funmakers, which traveled the South. Their son Wilford Thomas "Bill" Rowan, in an unpublished autobiography, recalled his family's life on the road.
  Bill, a serious big band jazz buff, described Virginia's ragtime piano as worthy of any band of the day. Doc played cornet, saxophone, violin, mandolin, drums, and a little piano. The two had a charming husband/wife clown act, daughters Hazel and Jackie were a song-and-dance act, and little Bill played cornet and drums and was "Chief Curtain Puller." For awhile they traveled with Jethro Almond's tent vaudeville show. As vaudeville gave way to moving pictures, they switched to running moving-picture shows, then Doc returned to to his pharmacist career.
  Doc operated drugstores in Wiggins MS, Bogalusa LA, Wrens GA ("Rowan's Drugs"), and Hampton SC.



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