Cousin Buzzy 

(For Shari Terrell and Alvin "Buzzy Baby Cowser"

My mother's first cousin Alvin 'Buzzy' Cowser and his sister Emma who hailed from Oregon by way of Colbert, Oklahoma and came to live on Sheridan Street in Chicago and then Dolton IL was mixed race.  My moms aunt who died of tuberculodis met their father Alvin Cowser Sr. after she died they were sent to live with his family in New Jersey. Buzzy was a nice looking tall man. He put me in the mind of Shabadoo from Breakin'. He came to Chicago to work with my great uncle in the tunnels and then subsequently became a pimp. He gave me jewelry from time to time when my mother or cousin Poochie came to baby sit his children. I remember him always being with a pretty women black and white.