Texas Family Group Sheet for the Charles Willis Bowden Family *********************************************** Copyright Lina Boyd. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Lina Boyd Email address: Husband: Charles Willis BOWDEN Birthdate: 05 December 1815 Birthplace: Oglethorpe County, Georgia Death date: 1883 Place of death: Lawrence County, Tennessee Burial: unknown Father: John Bowden Mother: Anna Blackburn Marriage date: 20 Sep 1838 Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 2 File 20 at county archives Wife: Elvira D. LADD - (Lysle on marriage bond) Birthdate: 1816 Birthplace: North Carolina Death date: March 1889 (from estate settlement) Place of death: Lawrence County, Tennessee? Burial: unknown Father: William Ladd Mother: Unknown CHILDREN Child No. 1: Constantine S. Bowden Sex: M Birthdate: 1840 Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee Death date: 1865 Place of death: During Civil War, place unknown Burial: unknown Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: never married Child No. 2: John W. Bowden Sex: M Birthdate: 1843 Birthplace: Alabama Death date: unknown Place of death: During the Civil War, place unknown Burial: unknown Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: never married Child No. 3: Mary J. Bowden Sex: F Birthdate: 01 August 1847 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: 05 July 1904 Place of death: Tennessee Burial: Freemon Cemetery, Lawrence County, Tennessee Marriage date: ? Marriage place: unknown Spouse's name: A. J. Griffin Child No. 4: James Newton Bowden Sex: M Birthdate: 22 February 1849 Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee Death date: 19 Mar 1929 Place of death: Brownwood, Brown County, Texas Burial: unknown Marriage date: 12 July 1874 Marriage place: Pope County, Arkansas Book D page 354 Spouse's name: Medora McAnally (1st wife) (1848- ?) Child No. 5: Fountain Pitts Bowden Sex: M Birthdate: 22 July 1853 Birthplace: Lawrence County, Tennessee Death date: 21 Nov 1904 Place of death: Pope County, Arkansas (newspaper obit died 01 Nov.) Marriage date: 11 November 1875 Burial: McFadden Cemetery, Dover, Pope County, Arkansas Marriage place: Tennessee? Spouse's name: Sarah Ann Teague Linam (1854 -1903) Child No. 6: Sidney E. Bowden Sex: M Birthdate: 11 June 1856 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: 12 August 1928 Place of death: Nashville, Tennessee at State Mental Hospital Burial: Nashville, Tennessee Marriage date: 11 December 1879 Marriage place: Wayne County, Tennessee Spouse's name: Mariah (Mary) Staggs (1855-1934) Child No. 7: Margaret Elizabeth Bowden Sex: F Birthdate: 05 Nov 1857 Birthplace: Tennessee Death date: 24 May 1925 Place of death: Lawrence County, Tennessee Burial: Pleasant Grove Cemetery west of Lawrenceburg Marriage date: 23 Sep 1888 Marriage place: Lawrence County, Tennessee Box 15 File 50 at county archives Spouse's name: William James Tice (1859-1930) Documentation: Charles Willis Bowden is listed in the births in the Henry Nelson Clay Bowden family bible. This is how I know his name was Willis. Information on Sidney Bowden family from Bruce and Sue Bowden of Ridge Manor, Florida, who also sent pictures of the family. Information on Margaret and Wm. James Tice family from Paul Gary Tice of Nashville, Tennessee who had written a book entitled, "The Tice Family." Pictures are included in this book. Fountain Pitts and Sarah Ann Teague Linam Bowden lived at Dover, where I live. I have known their family all my life. I also borrowed pictures from their granddaughter, Bertha Taylor Martin. Sarah Ann Teague Linam is my grandmother's sister. Fountain Pitts Bowden was a first cousin to their mother, Mary Ann Bowden, daughter of James Bowden and Elizabeth McAnally. Information on the James Newton Bowden family from John Newton Bowden of San Antonio, Texas, a grandson; and from James Harrison who now lives in Spain, but at the time was in Nashville, Tennessee. He is from the family of their daughter Mary Ella Strickland and he had all the old family pictures of this family. I have a copy of the original estate settlement for Charles Willis Bowden from Lawrence County, Tennessee. I also found pictures of this couple at the Lawrence County Archives left there by Garry Brewer. He also sent me a letter written by Louise J. Bowden to Mrs. A. J. Griffin. Marriage records from Lawrence County, Tennessee. Cemetery records of Lawrence County, Tennessee, Pope County, Arkansas. Marriage and Death records in Brown County, Texas. James Newton Bowden remmarried to Elizabeth McLean (McCain) on 19 Feb 1920 Book 9 page 46 in Brown County, Texas.