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Submitted by: Lina Boyd
Email address: <linajaneboyd@hotmail.com>
 

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. .