Husband: Benjamin BOWERS
Birthdate: 1778
Birthplace: Beech Island SC
Death date: March 12 1822
Place of death: Beech Island SC
Burial: Bowers Cemetery Beech Island SC
Father: David BOWERS
Mother: Ann unknown

Marriage date: 1811
Marriage place: Beech Island SC

Wife: Mary Galphin HOLMES
Birthdate: 1782
Birthplace: Barnwell County SC
Death date: January 16 1845
Place of death: Beech Island SC
Burial: Bowers Cemetery Beech Island SC
Father: William HOLMES
Mother: Barbara GALPHIN

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: George G. BOWERS
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 5, 1812
Birthplace: Beech Island SC
Death date: Sept. 18 1880
Place of death: Beech Island SC
Burial: Bowers Cemetery Beech Island SC
Marriage date: none
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: none

Child No. 2: Aurelia BOWERS
Sex: F
Birthdate: Feb 27 1813
Birthplace: Beech Island SC
Death date: 1824
Place of death: Beech Island SC
Burial: Bowers Cemetery Beech Island SC
Marriage date: none
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: none

Child No. 3: Julia A. BOWERS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1817
Birthplace: Beech Island SC
Death date: after 1900
Place of death: Georgia
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 4: Mary H. BOWERS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1820
Birthplace: Beech Island SC
Death date: 1889
Place of death: Beech Island SC
Burial: Dicks Cemetery Beech Island SC
Marriage date: 1840
Marriage place: Beech Island SC
Spouse's name: Alfred N. Dicks
 

Documentation:
* Mary Holmes actually married three men, the second being Thomas Duley, son of an area Rev. War hero. Thomas and Mary evidently did not get on well together and Thomas left, going up to Kentucky to live with his grandparents and other family. While he was gone, Mary consulted local authorities and the JP, her uncle Thomas Galphin, gave her permission to remarry. She "married Benjamin Bowers, had one child and was pregnant with the second when Duley returned. Papers concerning these happenings are in Edgefield Courthouse records. Families are found in Census records of Edgefield and Barnwell counties.