James Cowell, lot 5, concession 3, Marlborough township, was a son of John and Rose Ann (Mathews) Cowell. John and Rose Ann are buried in the Union cemetery in North Gower. James and Jane Templeton, a daughter of Samuel and Jane Templeton, were married on March 21, 1877. The children of James and Jane were: Electa (Merrick Brownlee), John (Jane Findlay), Mabel, Milton, Russell Thomas (Annie Moffitt), Amanda (Ernest Thompson), Etta (Thomas Baker), Ida Myrtle (Harold Taylor), Vincent and Wilmont.