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The cemetery is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Center Road (Ohio State Route 45) and Lampson Road (Township Road 194)
Author: David J. Perkins
Noah Cowles was born 17 Oct 1759 in Torrington, Connecticut where he lived a good portion of his life. Like his father Samuel who fought in defense of Fort William Henry in the French and Indian War and later as an ensign during the Lexington Alarm of April 1775 in the Revolutionary War, Noah was destined to be a military man. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Revolutionary Army in May of 1776 under Captain lacy of Col. Herman Swift's regiment of the Connecticut State troops. He marched from Norfolk, Conn to Bennington, Vt., Whitehall and Mount Independence where he joined the arm and remained there until September 1, 1776. At that time, with permission of his officers he enlisted as a marine on board a galley called the Washington commanded by Captain Thatcher and Lieutenant Gould on Lake Champlain. There under General Benedict Arnold in the famous Battle of Valcour Island, his ship was pursued up the lake and eventually captured by the British. Noah and all on board became prisoners of war. He remained as such until April 1781 when he was exchanged and after being paroled, returned to Norfolk, Conn.
Soon after his parole, he married Olive Mills on 14 Dec 1780, became one of the first deacons in the Kensington Congregational Church and started a family. Not content to take over his father Samuel's potash company or gristmill, he decided that the west was calling him. Along with his son and my 4th great grandfather Salmon, Noah Cowles walked on foot to Ashtabula County in Ohio in 1800 to the present city of Austinburg with other home seekers from Norfolk. There they erected cabins, walked back to Connecticut, gathered up the ox team and the rest of the family and walked back again to Ohio, a 500-mile journey done three times over. Noah died in Stillwater, Ohio on 14 Jan 1839.
Noah's son Salmon was born 24 Jun 1784 in Norfolk and died 25 Mar 1869 in West Point, Iowa.
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