Arkansas Family Group Sheet for the Jackson J. Bowden (1st) Family *********************************************** Copyright Lina Boyd. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Lina Boyd Email address: Husband: Jackson J. Bowden (1st) 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 (1st wife) 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 Spouse's name: Wiley Collins Child No. 2: Ann Bowden Sex: F Birthdate: 1839 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: unknown Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: 23 Apr 1860 Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas Book D page 32 Spouse's name: Monroe McCoy Child No. 3: Nancy Jane Bowden Sex: F Birthdate: 1841 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: Mary L. Bowden Sex: F Birthdate: 1847 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: after 1896 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: 02 July 1868 Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas (not recorded, found in vault at courthouse) Spouse's name: 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 Spouse's name: Nancy Crowell (1st wife) Child No. 6: Unknown Child Bowden Sex: Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: 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.