Tennessee Family Group Sheet for the James Bowden Family


Husband: James BOWDEN
Birthdate: 06 February 1806
Birthplace: Georgia
Death date: 1885
Place of death: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Burial: unknown
Father: John Bowden
Mother: Anna Blackburn

Marriage date: 12 Mar 1830 (from Bible)
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 2 File 20 (bond read as dated 1838)

Wife: Elizabeth "Bessy" McANALLY
Birthdate: 06 July 1814 (from Bible)
Birthplace: unknown
Death date: 11 February 1848 (from Bible)
Place of death: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Burial: unknown
Father: William McAnally
Mother: Elizabeth Stone

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Mary Ann Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 28 November 1834
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 06 April 1906
Place of death: Dover, Pope County, Arkansas
Burial: McFadden Cemetery, Dover, Pope County, Arkansas
Marriage date: 01 September 1853
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 7 File 10
Spouse's name: Andrew Jackson Linam (1832-1919) son of John Hodges Linam and Judith Teague

Child No. 2: William Sebastian Bowden
Sex: M
Birthdate: 27 March 1837
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 02 April 1914
Place of death: Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas
Burial: Rising Star Cemetery, Eastland County, Texas
Marriage date: 17 Jun 1858
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 6 File 20
Spouse's name: Didama Elizabeth Nowlin (1838-1919) daughter of Benjamin Nowlin and Lucinda Webb

Child No. 3: Charles Winston Bowden
Sex: M
Birthdate: 20 April 1839
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 07 December 1928
Place of death: May, Brown County, Texas
Burial: May Cemetery Brown County, Texas
Marriage date: 28 Jul 1864
Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas (family history)
Spouse's name: Mary Jane Austin (1844-1939) daughter of William Young Austin and Frances Ann Pollock

Child No. 4: Elizabeth S. Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 Nov 1841
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 27 Mar 1889
Place of death: Oklahoma
Burial: Fairview Cemetery at Noble, Oklahoma
Marriage date: 27 Nov 1864
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Spouse's name: David Bryant Nowlin (1832-1891) son of Benjamin W. Nowlin and Lucinda Webb

Child No. 5: Lois Matilda Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 April 1842
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 07 Feb 1896
Place of death: Brown County, Texas
Marriage date: 15 Jun 1858
Burial: Heflin Cemetery in Brown County, Texas
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 6 File 80
Spouse's name: J. M. Harlow (1st husband)

Child No. 6: Sarah Frances Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 January 1844
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: 10 Mar 1882
Place of death: Moreland, Pope County, Arkansas
Burial: somewhere in the Gumlog Community of Pope County, Arkansas, grave is not marked.
Marriage date: 25 Jan 1866
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Spouse's name: Benjamin Wade Nowlin (1841-1915) son of Benjamin F Nowlin and Lucinda Webb

Child No. 7: John Archibald Bowden
Sex: M
Birthdate: 28 Jun 1846
Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee
Death date: age 23? in the Civil War (he would have been 23 in 1869, not during the Civil War.)
Place of death: unknown location
Burial: unknown
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name:
 
 
Documentation:
* Census and marriage records from Lawrence County, Tennessee and Pope County, Arkansas.
* Family Bible Record of Mary Ann Bowden, owned by Gene Burris of Russellville, Arkansas.
* Family Bible Record of William McAnally family found at the Russellville, Arkansas public library in the loose paper McAnally file.
* Cemetery records of Eastland and Brown Counties in Texas.
* Pope County History Volume I and II.
* James Bowden remarried after Elizabeth died to Louise J. Ladd. Louise was born in 1830 in Alabama. Her mother was Margaret Ladd. Two of her sisters, Emily and Mary Ladd, were living with James and Louise in the 1880 Lawrence Co. census.
* Lois Matilda Bowden remarried to Wiley P. White on 12 October 1871 in Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 11 file 100 at the county archives in Lawrenceburg, TN. Wiley is buried in Tennessee.
* Didama Elizabeth Nowlin, David Bryant Nowlin and Benjamin Wade Nowlin were brothers and sister. David was married before he married Elizabeth Bowden, Benjamin remarried after Sarah died.
* I found a book done by Charles Winston Bowden's daughter, Ada Madora Prentice in the Russellville, Arkansas library about her family. The Prentice papers mentioned that John Archibald (they called him Allen) died during the Civil War at age 23. In the Bible from Mary Ann Linam's family his birth is listed as the same date that is on his sister, Lois' tombstone, 24 Apr 1842. This would have him deceased in 1865 which would be during the Civil War. But the Prentice birthdate has 1846 and that would make him deceased in 1869. Census age agrees with the 1846 birthdate. So not sure about his dates.
 

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