Cowdery Genealogy and Cowdery Family History Information

Oliver Cowdery (1806-1850), scribe to Joseph Smith and witness of the Book of Mormon (1829), Second Elder of the Church (1830), and Assistant President of the Church (1834), editor, and lawyer. Cowdery...

The mother was born in Ohio in 1807 and is still living. Her parents were Jacob and Abigail Cowdery, born in Connecticut, of English extraction. They came to Meigs county in 1798, settling in Chester o...

Oliver and Elizabeth Ann Cowdery adopted a young woman Adeline Fuller who lived with the Cowdery's at Kirtland, Ohio, in the mid-1830s. Adeline was apparently related to Oliver's mother, Rebbecca Fulle...