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Joshua Bowen & Margaret Cobb > Green Bowen & Elizabeth Fobar >

The Family group of :
Aquilla Adams & Mary Bowen

Husband : Aquilla Adams

 Birthdate  July 1832 Place of Birth  England
 Occupation   Place  
 Marriage  1860 Place  DeWitt County, Texas
 Death   Place  
 Burial   Place   
 Father - Mother -
Military Service

 Aquilla Adams is listed on the Muster Roll of Captain J.J. Dix's Company, in the Texas Frontier Regiment of Mounted Volunteers, commanded by Colonel James M. Norris.
Called into the service of the State of Texas from the 8th day of March 1862, when mustered, to the 30th day of July 1862 by Governor Lubbock under the Act of the Legislature, approved December 21st, 1861.

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[ Aquilla Adams : Texas Frontier Regiment Discharge Papers July 1,1862 - February 14,1863 ]

Other
Marriages/ Notes

 Aquilla arrived in the USA in 1852.

Van Boone of Port Lavaca Texas says, "I have information about Eliza Adams ( Daughter of Aquilla and Mary ) and C.H. Alexander's children.  Eliza is my Great Great Grandma.  We own the property where Aquilla Adams established his homestead."

Wife : Mary Bowen

 Birthdate  May 1842 Place of Birth  Illinois
 Occupation   Place  
 Death  4-21-1924 Place  DeWitt County, Texas
 Burial   Place   
 Father  Green Bowen Mother  Mary Elizabeth Fobar
Other
Marriages/ Notes
 

Children

No.  Sex  Names  Group
Sheet
 Date & Place of Birth  Marriages Spouse , Date & Place  Death
 1  F Eliza Marie Adams  fs3c1 February,1862
Texas 
 C.H. Alexander (Charles Henry)
b May 10, 1859
d Jun. 17, 1907
Sept 1932
Stratton, DeWitt County, Texas 
Alexander Cemetery
 2 Lucy Adams   fs3c2 1866
Texas 
   
 3 M George Green Adams  fs3c3 1870
Texas 
   
 4 Charles William Adams  fs3c4 1872
Texas 
   
 5 M John Henry Adams  fs3c5 Dec 1873
Texas 
   
 6 Samuel Adams  fs3c6 1876
Texas 
   
Notes:

Census or Tax Roll information

 Date & Place

 Date & Place

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 1840  
 1850 Jefferson County Illinois.  
 1860  
1870
DeWitt County,Texas  
 
1880
DeWitt County, Texas 
 
   
   

Free inhabitants in District number ten
in the County of Jefferson State of Illinois enumerated by me,
on the 19th day of Aug. 1850 Robert Wingate
Page 365

Microfilm roll M432-110

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 Name Age   Sex  Occupation From  Line 
 Boen, Green 35 Farmer  Tn.  26 
Boen, Mary  36   Ill.  27 
Boen, Eliza  16  F   Ill.  28
 Boen , Elizabeth  11  F   Ill.   29
Boen, Mary A.    Ill.   30
Boen,William  6   Ill.  31 
Boen, John 3 M   Ill.  32 
 Boen, Abraham 2 Months    Ill.  33 
 Also listed in the household are :
Elizabeth Whelip age 15, Hezekiah Whelip age 16, Sarah E. Whelip age 10 and Nancy Whelip age 8 all list places of birth as Illinois.

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Bibliography :
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Family group sheet notes
Marlene Bowen Fruth

Cemetery stones at Alexander Cemetery
research by Betsy Young.

Van Boone of Port Lavaca,Texas.

Texas State Archives

 

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