Husband: Jackson J. BOWDEN
Birthdate: 22 January 1814
Birthplace: Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Death date: 24 November 1896
Place of death: Mexia, Limestone County, Texas
Burial: Enterprize Cemetery in Limestone County, Texas
Father: John Bowden
Mother: Anna Blackburn

Marriage date: 11 August 1834
Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 2 File 20

Wife: Salina LAY
Birthdate: 1814
Birthplace: Georgia
Death date: 1852
Place of death: Pope County, Arkansas
Burial: unknown
Father: Vincent Lay
Mother: Rhoda unknown

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Rhoda Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1835
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: before 1858
Place of death: Pope County, Arkansas
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: 21 March 1855
Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas Book C page 15
Spouses' names: Wiley Collins

Child No. 2: Ann Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1839
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: unknown
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Marriage date: 23 Apr 1860
Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas Book D page 32
Spouses' names: Monroe McCoy

Child No. 3: Nancy Jane Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1841
Birthplace: Tennessee
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Child No. 4: Mary L. Bowden
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1847
Birthplace: Tennessee
Death date: after 1896
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Marriage date: 02 July 1868
Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas (not recorded, found in vault at courthouse)
Spouses' names: James Reynolds

Child No. 5: James Taylor Bowden
Sex: M
Birthdate: 06 January 1850
Birthplace: Pope County, Arkansas
Death date: 20 September 1924
Place of death: Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas
Marriage date: 08 November 1868
Burial: Trickham, Texas
Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas Book D page 193
Spouses' names: Nancy Crowell (1st wife)

Child No. 6: unknown Child Bowden
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Documentation:
* Goodspeed's History of Pope County on Jackson J. Bowden page 213. This article states that he and Salina Lay had six children, two of whom were alive when this article was written. These two would have been Mary Reynolds and James Taylor Bowden.
* I have an obituary written by Rev. John Wesley Bowden, a nephew of Jackson J. Bowden at his death.
* Jackson J. Bowden remarried after the death of Salina to Narcissa E. Bewley on 12 Aug 1852 in Pope County, Arkansas. Goodspeed's history said they had 10 children, three of which died in infancy. See wife No. 2 for these children.