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:Most recent inquiries:
I am searching for Rebecca (Becky) Bowen, who
was a relative of Benjamin Bowen, formerly of Mississippi.
Does anyone know this family?
TPierce
Hi, I seek the proper Hester/Esther Bowen, without
any luck. The Hester I long for is the daughter of Richard Bowen of Rehoboth,
but she is securely married to Samuel Millard, as named in Richard Bowen's
will calling her Esther Millard, and I can't undo her.
Erika-Caro writes:
My great great great grandmother was a Mary A. She married a Jessie Beals.
she was probably born in the 1830's. Anything you have would be interesting.
More
Phyllis Bourne Batchelor is looking for information concerning Richard
Bowen of Rehoboth and his daughter Alice:
She states : :I believe that she married a Wheaton. Charity Wheaton married
Jared Bourn, through whom I am descended." More
I am looking for any information regarding my Great Grandfather, Anthony Bowen who married Laura Sabina Loudermilk,
Grn Briar CO. West Virginia in1875.
The father of my grandpa " Theodore Bowen"
... is Charles Lindbergh Bowen who died at 75, born in Boston and was the
son of Helen "?" and Guy Benjamin Bowen.
...any information on a C.C. Bowen who lived
in Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas, circa 1915. My surmisal is that he was
a Confederate veteran.....
My father George Edgar and sister Dorthy,
were given up for adoption around 1930's by John Felix Bowen to Lou Turbeville
and their birth mother Mabel.....
Uriah Springer Bowen & Elizabeth Moore
( Re: Bowen & Holloway family connections).
Mike is looking for the descendents
of George W. Bowen
George Bowen served in the 16th Michigan Infantry as a surgeon ,had a brother
named Henry and a wife named Kate whose maiden name was Thurber.
Emeline Mays who married
Marshall Bowen in 1845
in McDonough County, Illinois.
Buddie Bowens &
Willie Rozella Carpenter.
Ervin & Elsia May Bowen.
Clifton Bowen, Clifton Bowen Jr.,
Samuel Bowen.
William F. Bowen, and son
Arthur Franklin Bowen who married
Cora Maude McClure.
English Sea Capt. George Bowen
who m. Mary Margaret Farr.
William Olney F.M. Bowen.
[ The
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Looking for info about
Ervin & Elsia May Bowen.
[ Bowens
on the 1790 census ]
[ Bowens on the
1800 census ]
Correction made on 12-29-2003
to the 1800
Rhode Island Census
See the note on that page.
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The two latest features are works that are on-going and
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information will contibute to the work.
The first is :
Bowen's
to America
the second is
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The
Bowen Clan of Tazewell, Virginia
[ The
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Rees T. Bowen ]
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John
Perry Bowen Papers
( re : John Perry Bowen, Reece Bowen & Wylde Lyde Latham
Bowen. )
Archaeologists
:
Digging into the past of enslaved blacks
at the old
William Bowen plantation
( The Bowen - Campbell house)
have discovered what is believed to be
the kitchen of a slave cabin.
[ USGenWeb
of Tazewell Virginia ]
Bowenville is is an area that may be of interest to the
members of my specific Bowen clan. Bowenville contains information related
to the research of my family lineage and some collateral lines.
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[ Texas Bowens' ]
 The Duke family
file
William M.Bowen (1836-1915) married
Mahala Duke (1850-1928) in
Guadalupe County Texas on
October 12, 1868.
Mahala is the daughter of
David Dukes & Matilda Killingworth.
[ William & Mahala group sheet ]
Also read
[ Bowen's with Cherokee
Blood ]
R.I.P.
W.G.
"Bill" Duke
1917-2003
[Bowen
& Rice clans of Texas]
Looking for
burial location
of Oliver Rice (1726-1812)
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The information placed
on this site is primarily concerning the Bowen family genealogy of my Tennessee > North Carolina > Illinois >
Texas Bowen clan.
My Bowen clan has been traced back to Cannon County
Tennessee,Bertie County North Carolina,White and Jefferson Counties in
Illinois and then on to Dewitt, Lavaca, Bexar, Goliad, Caldwell (and beyond)
Counties In Texas.If you are trying to trace down ancestors with the names
of Joshua Bowen,Margaret Cobb, Green Bowen,Anna Gann, Green Bowen Jr,a
few other cousin Greens' and Joshuas' as well as well as Eliza Bowen,Elizabeth
Bowen,Mary Ann Bowen,Abraham Bowen, Andy Bowen,David Bowen,Ganum Bowen,Anna
Bowen, Betsy Bowen,Ruth A. Bowen, James Lawrence "Lonnie" &
Dora Bowen, Seymour & Bessie Bowen, you just may be one of the amazing...
descendants of Joshua Bowen and
Margaret Cobb
: Collateral Lines :
Cobb / Fobar / Duke / Rice
/ McBride / Phillips / Romanos-Chapa
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Ben, good to hear from you again....
....Pawpaw ( Seymour Courtney Bowen) was 65
years old in 1962 and he retired on social security at that time but he
kept working part-time for a while. Abraham ( Bowen)
married widowed Adeline ( Prudence Courtney )Rice
after her husband Oliver Rice died. Abe
was eleven years younger than she was. She had four children by Oliver
and then she had three Bowen children by Abe and they raised them all as
one big happy family.
Our claim to fame is through Adeline. Her grandfather was Seymour
Garey who came to Texas in 1839 and received a land grant in Gonzales
county which was split in two to make Dewitt county and Gonzales county
and his land was then in Dewitt county. And you will remember that his
son, Elijah Garey was killed at San Antonio
at the battle of Salado creek in 1842 when Santa Anna sent General ( Adrian
Woll ) back into Texas to try to recapture San Antonio.
He in buried in a common grave with the others in La Grange (Texas). Sam
Houston is reported to have attended the interment ceremony. There is a
large standing Tombstone with his and the others names inscribed.You may
make a rubbing of his name if you like. I did.
Uncle Bubba
Quote of the hour:
" The
Lord has made room for us."
Richard ( Bowen), the emmigrant, settled in Roxbury, MA. near Boston,
1640. In 1643 some 40 families including his, under the leadership of their
pastor, Rev. Samuel Newman, left Roxbury and penetrated the unbroken wilderness
and formed a new settlement some 50 miles to the south and named it Rehoboth
signifying "the Lord has made room for us." This town is about
8 miles east of Providence and in the "Newman cemetery" lie the
remains of Richard Bowen and some of his descendants.
(Genealogical Exchange, Mar 1911, p 81.) & [ strutton.org
]
from the probate records of Albina S. Blue Bowen
for the estate of Green Bowen (b.1837-d.1869)
To the Hon. Wm.Thomas Judge of the County Court
of White County, in the State of Illinois.
The Petition of the undersigned Albina S Bowen
respectfully represents that Green Bowen late of the
County of White aforesaid, departed this life at ("at"
is struck through)in said County, on or about the 28th
day of OctoberA.D. 1869,leaving no last will and testament
as far as your petitioner knows or believes.
And this Petition futhur shows that the said Green
Bowen died, siezed and possessed Real and ("Real and"
is struck through) Personal Estate, consisting
chiefly of
2 horses- 1 cow - 13 sheep - 4 hogs - about 12 acres of corn in the
field & household & kitchen furniture & a few farming implements
Estate of of Green Bowen (1837-1869)
/ Adminisrator's Bond
Request for Letters of Administration
in the matter of Green Bowen's estate
filed by Albina S.Bowen October 28th,1869
Letters of Administration in the
matter of Green Bowen's estate
granted to Albina S.Bowen November 4th,1869
Sale Bill for the estate of
Green Bowen 1869
From
The History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
:Nottingham:
"Tradition has it that these Indians when
at Boscawen in 1753 at a place
known as Indian Bridge, they stopped with Peter Bowen and got very drunk
on rum; while in that condition boasted they had killed three persons,
two
men and a woman in Nottingham. They said the woman was 'big' and
when they were killing her she 'blatted like a calf.' They spent the night
with one Peter Bowen; while they were asleep Bowen drew the bullets from
their guns, fearing they might attempt to shoot him. In the morning they
wanted him to carry their packs on his horse and not daring to refuse he
complied with their request. The names of these Indians were Sabatis and
Plausawa. Sabatis proposed that he and Bowen have race and Bowen
consented, but allowed Sabatis to outrun the horse. As they went along
and
came near the river, Sabatis proposed another race with the horse; this
time
Bowen got a little ahead of Sabatis, when he heard a gun snap behind him
and turning saw the smoke of Sabatis' gun aimed at his head.- Leaping from
his horse he plunged his tomahawk into Sabatis' head and killed him. Plau-
sowa aimed and fired at Bowen, but did no damage as the bullet had been
removed by Bowen the night before. Bowen then attacked Plausowa and
killed him. This was down in the road near the Merrimack River.
"Bowen was afterwards indicted by the grand jury at Portsmouth for
having killed the Indians without proper cause to justify him, but a crowd
assembled about the jail the night before the trial and broke it open and
released Bowen. It is said that Nottingham men had a hand in the work
of breaking open the jail; everybody seemed to be satisfied that justice
had
been done in releasing him, as the people believed the Indians had been
pun-
ished as they deserved.
Read more : [ John
Bowen of Boscawan New Hampshire, Peter Bowen & the murder in 1753 of
the two indians,Sabatis and Plausawa., Nottingham New Hampshire in Indian
times and a related story : Captivity of Mrs.McCoy ]
- Bowen History -
Jeannie Frazier
" These wonderful mountain men of Virginia, fresh
from their battles with Indians, dressed in buckskin, hair long, feather's
on the ends of their rifles, came whooping and hollering with a combination
of Indian War whoops and Highland battle cries that scared the daylights
out of the British troops, waiting on King's mountain. They ( *The British
under Ferguson) were routed so badly that they never did recoup.
Lt. Rees Bowen was killed, William Bowen when hearing
his brother was downed, went crazy, running to find his brother hoping
that it was not to late. As he ran to where his brother had fallen, a sentry
yelled, demanding the password of the day. William so distraught, couldn't
make sense of what the man was yelling and actually forgot the password.
When they were about to shoot it out, an officer, recognizing William grabbed
him, bringing him back to his senses. They hugged, grateful for not having
to shoot each other, but distraught about finding his brother.......
"
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* According to an interview of Jimmy Carter, discussing his new book
The Hornet's Nest : A Novel of theRevolutionary
War, the majority , if not all of the "British" under
Ferguson, with the exception of the officers were Americans' Loyal to the
King.
Ben
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