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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, Tuesday, February 21 1933: "Funeral services for John A. McGowan, aged 83, resident of Lonaconing and Gilmore for more than a half century, who died Friday afternoon at his home in Gilmore, and not, as previously published, at the Meyers' home, were held in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of which he was a member. Rev. Jos. P. Nolan of Frostburg officiated. Burial was in St. Michael's Cemetery. The pallbearers were: Michael Morley, Robert McKenzie, George Kreil, Thomas Moore, John Cosgrove, James Jenkins, Sr., John Murphy, Patrick Mills and Patrick Nolan. Mr. McGowan was born at Sandy Hook, Md., just across the state line from Harper's Ferry, W.Va., in 1849. He later moved to Virginia and during the Civil War, when he was only fourteen years old, he served as a Confederate soldier, in Company B-18 of the Virginia Cavalry under Captain Stump and Colonel Philip Snar. After the Civil War, he migrated to Western Maryland and settled at Rawlings, this county. After his marriage in 1876 to Mary Nolan, he purchased the Dan's Mountain farm at Lonaconing. He resided there until 1911, when he retired and moved to the present residence in Gilmore. Mrs. McGowan died in 1928. Mr. McGowan died of a heart attack. He had been in failing health from a fractured hip sustained in a fall while walking in his yard last spring. Surviving are ten children, William McGowan, Boulder City, Nev.; Mrs. M. J. Spence, Johnstown, Pa.; Mrs. Emmett Greenwade, Frostburg; John, Frank, and Joseph McGowan, Mrs. John Hughes and Mrs. Hugh MacMillan, Midland, and Mrs. Joseph H. Mills and Mrs. Fred J. Meyers, Gilmore. There are also 37 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren..."
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