Bowen family web
I began this timeline as a way to organize births,deaths,marriages &census information etc. into an order that makes it easier to place persons in their correct spots in time, it has helped me to correct and organize and eliminate some confusion.This is a work in progress. My goal is to have only Bowen family members that are related to my line. My line came from Bertie County North Carolina,White & Jefferson Counties, Illinois and Tennessee then eventually some ended up in Caldwell, Lavaca, Bexar, & Dewitt Counties in Texas. In an effort to organize I am placing all Bowen info I find from those counties on this timeline page. This is a Historical Timeline and genealogical worksheet to help me put people in their proper order.I am also adding some interesting historical facts or links to other relative on site info I have found.
Notes: Anything in Blue I have a question maybe some contradictory or incomlete info. Anything blue underlined is a link. Anything in Green is census info. Red indicates Historical information as " perspective".
Indicates being in Ben's, clan. Those without "
the finger" have not yet been connected and or verified as direct
lineage.
Bowen family web ~ Timeline
- 1765 (abt.)- Hardy Bowen Sex: M Born: in Bertie County, North Carolina
- 1787- Hardy Bowen m Penelope Cobb on Jan.30th. in Bertie County, North Carolina ( best man Abner Lawrence)
- Note :Speculated that Hardy Bowen is related because Joshua Bowen had married a Margaret Cobb,in 1801 in Bertie County, North Carolina. records indicate however that Penelope and Margaret were not sisters.( perhaps cousins)?? also on Minutes of Capeharts meeting House Baptist Church Hardy, Joshua Bowen, Margaret Bowen & Joshua Bowen Jr. all are listed as members and referred to in the minutes.
1790 - The Census from Bertie County Illinois lists the following Bowens.
Bowen,Benjamin
Bowen,Hardy
1794-Henrietta Bowen marries Nehemiah Ellensworth on Dec. 16th. in Bertie County, North Carolina
1796- Sarah Bowen Marries Samuel Keeter on August 9th. in Bertie County, North Carolina.
1797- Nathan Bowen marries Martha Barncastle On August, 29th. in Bertie County, North Carolina
1790- Benjamin Franklin Dies
1801- Anna Bowen Marries Whitmell Dempsey June,17 in Bertie County,North Carolina.
- 1801-Joshua Bowen Marries Margaret
Cobb, July 27 in Berti County, North Carolina the Best man is Elisha
- Corbert. [Uncle Ben's GGGGG Grandfather & Grandmother]
- 1802-Joshua Bowen (Jr). Is born
to Joshua and Margaret Cobb.
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- 1803- Dorcas Bowen marries Thomas Cobb, Dec.12, In Bertie County, North Carolinia.
1803- Louisiana Purchase
1804-1806 - Lewis and Clark Expedition ~ Alexander Hamilton Shot and later dies from wounds received in a dual with Aaron Burr- Napoleon Bonaparte names himself Emperor in France.
1809- American Patriot Thomas Paine Dies, Authored " Common Sense " in 1776 calling for American independence from England
1809- Charles Darwin is born in England
1805- Polly Bowen Marries William Baker Dec. 7th In Bertie County, North Carolina
- 1812- (abt.) -
Green J. Bowen is Born to Joshua Bowen and Margaret Cobb
- [Uncle Ben's GGGG Grandfather]
War of 1812 begins,lasts until 1815. during the war the British army marches into Washingon D.C. forcing the president to flee, They then march on to fort McHenry and are stopped. this is the Battle where Francis Scott key was Inspired to write the Star Spangled Banner
1820- Daniel Boone (b.1734) dies in Missouri he opened the wilderness road in 1775 allowing over 200,000 settlers to travel westward by 1800.
1825-Stirred by Stephen F. Austin's success, DeWitt's colony, one of the major colonies in the settlement of Texas , was established by Green DeWitt and James Kerr by grant and approval of the Mexican Government. This setlement later became known as the town of Gonzales.
1827- Cornelius Bowen marries Charlotte Todd, May,2 1827 Bertie County,North Carolina ( best man Jessie Bowen)
1828- Huldah Bowen marries Thomas Cobb may 22, Bertie County, North Carolina
1828- Edward Bowen marries Harriet Myers August 21. Bertie County North Carolina.( best man is Joshua Bowen)
- 1828 - Andrew (Andy) born to
Joshua Jr. and ? ( Joshua Jr. marries Petney Cotton in1836) will marry
Mary
- Holderby in 1850 fights in the union army "48Th Illinois"
1831-Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia, Killing at least 57 white men, Turner is captured and executed.
1832- May,29 Green Bowen marries Susanna Pullum in White County, Illinois (GREEN WHO I ASK?)
1833- Jessie Bowen marries Margaret Gregory on April, 25th in Bertie County, North Carolina ( best man is Abner Lawrence)
- 1834- Green Bowen marries
Mary Elizabeth (Fabor) (Fobar)
Jul 10, in White County, Illinois
- [Uncle Ben's GGG Grand father and Grandmother]
1836 - John Bowen marries Felise Cotton on May 21st in White County, Illinois
- 1838- Green born to Joshua Jr. and Fetney Gann , marries
Albina Blue in 1860 dies before 1869
- Enlists with brothers Andy and John M. in 48th Illinois Union army (born where?)
- 1839- Adeline
Prudence Courtney is born June 21st 1839 in New York to Truman Courtney
and Amanda Geary.
- Adeline will marry Oliver Hugh Rice in 1854 and after his death will
marry Abraham Bowen in 1870.In DeWitt County,Texas.
- 1839-1840 : Adeline Prudence Courtney's grandfather, Seymour Garey settles in Gonzales/Dewitt County Texas with a land grant.
1841- Potato Famine hits Ireland
1842 : Elijah Garey was killed at the Dawson Massacre, Salado Creek, Texas.
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse succesfully demonstrates the magnetic telegraph
- 1844- William M. born to Green J. Bowen and Mary Elizabeth
Fabor in Illinois
- will marry Mahala Duke in 1868 - [This is Uncle Ben's GGG Grandfather]
1845 - Green Bowen m Anna Ellen Gann on Mar 29, in White County, Illinois?
- 1846 -The first post office in DeWitt County, Texas was established in May in Daniel Boone Friar's store, four miles north of the present site it was also called Cuero (later Old Cuero).The present DeWitt County was formed from Goliad, Gonzales, and Victoria counties in 1846 and named for empresario Green DeWitt.
1848 : Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels pen the Communist Manifesto in Russia.
1848- Caldwell County in Texas is established,largley from DeWitt Colony land.
- 1849- Sarah Frances Bowen marries William C. Hyman August 2nd. in Bertie
County, North Carolina
- 1849- Patsey Bowen marries Elisha Myers August, 23rd in White County,Illinois.
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1850 - Census Information :
- On the 1850 Jefferson Co., Illinois census are Green,
Mary Elizabeth Fabor, and their children:
- Eliza 14, Elizabeth 11, Mary A. 7, William 6, John 3 and Abraham 2 months.last name recorded as "BOEN"
- There are also Four other children living with them: Elizabeth Whelip 15, Hezakiah Whelip 14, Sarah E. Whelip 10, and Nancy Whelip 8.
- Eliza 14, Elizabeth 11, Mary A. 7, William 6, John 3 and Abraham 2 months.last name recorded as "BOEN"
- 1850 -Abraham is born to Green J. and Mary Elizabeth
Fabor in Illinois,
Abraham will marry Adeline Courtney Rice in Texas.
- 1850- Mahala Duke is born 11-21-1850 in Jackson County,
Alabama
- (Mahala will marry WilliamM Bowen in 1868)[Uncle Ben's
GGG Grandmother]
1851-Rebecca Bowen marries william Craddick June 10th in Bertie County,North Carolina.
1853-Holloway Bowen marries Francis A. White October 18th, Bertie County North Carolina. ( Best man is Cornelius Bowen)
1853- John Wesley Hardin is born in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas.
1854- James Hardy Bowen marries Mary Williams Nov. 23rd in Bertie County, North Carolina
1855-Susan Ann Bowen maries Hezekiah White on January 6th in Bertie County, North Carolina
1855- Humphry H. Bowen marries Margaret Winnifred (Bowen?) Dec. 21st in Bertie County, North Carolina.
- 1856- ( Joseph) Green Junior is born to Green J. and
Mary Elizabeth Fabor ( in Texas) Green Jr. will marry thrice 1st to
- Elmira pallon 2nd wife is Jane M. Gregory aka Ellen Nolen
1857- William E. Bowen marries Francis M. Barncastle Dec. 13th 1857 in Bertie County North Carolina
1859- Humphrey H. Bowen Marries Ann Leicester January 3rd. 1859 in Bertie County, North Carolina
- 1860 - Green Bowen m *Albina
S Blue Dec 27, inWhite County, Illinois. ( Green dies before 1869)
- (Albina S. Blue marries Elisha Graddy Nov.23rd 1871 in white county.)
1860- W H Bowen marries Mary W. Butterton July 12th in Bertie County, North Carolina
Nov. 1860 - Lincoln Elected President
Feb. 1861- Confederate States of America formed.
April 1861- Fort Sumpter Attacked by Confederate General Beaureguard begins the War between the States which lasts until April 1865
March 1861- Lincoln Sworn in as President
- 1861- Sept. The 48th Illinois
union Army infantry is formed. Andrew,Green and John M.Volunteer. Their
unit
- resides at Carmi,Illinois which is the County seat of White County.
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1862- January. William M. Bowen
of Caldwell County, Texas Enlists in the Confederate States Army , Waul's
- Texas Legion Cavalry
1862 -April 6-7 The Battle of Shiloh on the Tennessee River. The 48th Illinois is there. 23,000 men are killed or Wounded.The 48th loses half of its' men.
1862-Sept. Battle of Antietam, Maryland. Bloodiest day in US military history, 26,000 men dead, wounded or missing.
1862- Dec. Battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia. 12,653 men die.
1863- May. Battle of Vicksburg " Stonewall" Jackson Dies from wounds
1863- July . Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1864- Atlanta falls to General Sherman , President Lincoln Re-elected in September.
1865- Congress ratifies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution Abolishing Slavery, the Amendment is later ratified by the States.
1865- April 9 General Robert E. Lee Surrenders to U.S.Grant at Appamatox Courthouse in Virginia. War is Ended.
1865- April 14th. Lincoln Shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies from Wounds on April 15th.
- 1868 - William M. Bowen marries
Mahala Duke in Guadalupe County, Texas.
- [Uncle Ben's GG Grandfather and Grandmother ]
1869 - Ruth Bowen m. Aaron Daniel May 19, in White County, Illinois
Mystery Texas Bowen > Mother Mrs. R.F. Bowen Born Feb. 8 1869 Died Apr. 4. 1931
- 1870- Abraham Bowen marries Adeline
Courtney Rice b. in New York in 1839 on May 16th. 1870. Adeline
- was previously married (1854) to Oliver Hugh Rice (oliver
d.1867).
- 1871- Daniel Hodge Bowen is Born
to Abraham Bowen and Adeline Courtney Rice in DeWitt County, Texas.
- Daniel will marry Minnie lee Downing c. 1893 Daniel dies1935 in Luling, Texas.
- 1872- February 29,Jane Bowen marries Gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in Dewitt County, Texas. Hardin in August is wounded by Phil A. Sublett and is later arrested and taken to The Gonzales County jail. Soon thereafter he broke out of the jail with the help of Mannen Clements.
- 1873- In April John Weley Hardin killed J. B. Morgan in a Cuero barroom, one of the two killings for which he would ultimately be convicted.
- Mystery Texas Bowen > Father W.H. Bowen Born Sept. 27. 1872 Died Nov. 17. 1938
- 1874- James Lawrence Bowen born 11-18-1874 to William
M. Bowen and Mahala (Duke) Bowen in DeWitt
- County, Texas.James marries cousin Dora Alice Bowen in 1896. dies in 1934. [Uncle Bens G Grandfather]
1876- Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
- 1875- Dora Alice Bowen is born to Abraham Bowen and
Adeline Courtney Rice. on April 20th. Dora will marry
- cousin James Lawence Bowen in 1896 . Dora dies in 1953 in Tucson Az.[Uncle Ben's G Grandmother]
1878- Author Carl Sandburg is Born.
- 1878 (abt.)David Bowen is born in Yoakum DeWitt County,
Texas to Abraham Bowen and Adeline Courtney
- Rice.Will marry Hermana Magdeline Rice in 1899 ,David dies in 1923
- 1878- Joseph Green Bowen Junior marries Elmira Pallon/Pollan in Lavaca County Texas
- 1880 - William Bowen (Son of Andrew Bowen & Jennie S Manier) m Mary Holderby May 19, in White County Illinois, Mary holderby was previously wed to Andrew Bowen in 1850
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1880- Census Information-
Green and wife along with Green Jr. and Family are on 1880 DeWitt County
Texas Census reports.
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- 1892- Jane Bowen wife of John Wesly Hardin Dies,she is buried in asher cemetery in Mound Creek Texas in Karnes County. Mound Creek was a community on a dirt road eight miles southeast of Gillett.
1895- August 19, John Selman, with whom John wesley Hardin had been arguing, shot Hardin in the back of the head as he threw dice at the bar of the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Texas where Hardin had set up his law practice.
- 1896- James Lawrence Bowen marries Cousin Dora Alice
Bowen March, 19th. In DeWitt County, Texas.
- [ James Lawrence is Uncle Ben's Great Grandfather Dora
Alice is Uncle Ben's Great Grandmother]
- 1897- Seymour Bowen is born to James Lawrence Bowen
and Dora Alice Bowen on February 3rd, Seymour will
- marry Bessie Myrtle Phillips in 1920 [ Seymour and Bessie are Uncle Ben's Grandparents]
- 1899- David Bowen son of Abraham Bowen and Adeline
Courtney Rice marries Magdeline "Maggie" Rice
- in DeWitt County,Texas.
1901 On September 6, President William McKinley is assassinated by a mentally ill anarchist named Leon Czolgosz.
1903 - First successful flight by the Wright Brothers.
- 1904- John M. Bowen (b.1840) dies
on November, 23rd.
1905- Richard Neal Bowen is born to James Lawrence
Bowen and Dora Alice Bowen on March 24th.
- 1905 - Albert Einstein develops the theory of relativity.
1907- Edna Lea Bowen is born to James Lawrence Bowen
and Dora Alice Bowen on March 6th
- 1908- Ford produces the first Model-T automobiles.
1909/1910?- Andrew Bowen is born to James Lawrence
Bowen and Dora Alice Bowen on Oct. 6th
1910- Census info:
On the 1910 Lavaca Co., Texas. census are James Bowen Dora and children:
- Seymour 13, William 12, Addie 9, Agnes 7, Richard 5, Edna Lee 3, and
Andrew 9 months.
- Also Dora's father Abraham and his second wife, Nancy, are living with them.
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1912- Percy Bowen is born to James Lawrence Bowen and
Dora Alice Bowen on Jan 7th. and dies the same day.
- 1912 - The Titanic sinks drowning 1,513 people.
- 1914- President Woodrow Wilson creates the Federal Trade Commission.
- 1917- The United States enters World War I.
- 1917- The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts the country into communism.
- 1918- Germany surrenders to in to the Allies.
- 1918- A world-wide influenza epidemic kills 22 million people.
- 1919- State legislatures ratify the 18th Amendment, starting prohibition and a prelude to the roaring twenties.
- 1920-Women win the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
1923- David Bowen (b1878) son
of Abraham Bowen and Adeline Courtney Rice dies on January 5th. one month
- before his father.
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1923- Abraham Bowen (b1850) Dies
Feb. 27th In DeWitt County Texas. had married Adeline Courtney Rice.
1925- Justin Ray born may 29th. to Seymour and Bessie Bowen dies the same day.- 1925- Teacher, John Scopes is tried for teaching evolution, this is sometimes called the scopes monkey trial.
- 1927- In the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
- 1927 - Construction begins on Mount Rushmore
- 1928- Wayne Lanier Bowen born Oct. 4Th in Houston,
Texas.To Seymour Bowen and Bessie Myrtle Phillips.
- 1931-The Empire State Building opens in New York.
- 1934- James Lawrence Bowen (b.1874)
dies October 3rd. in New Braunsfels, Texas.had married cousin Dora Alice
- March 19, 1896
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1935- Daniel Hodge Bowen dies in Luling Texas.
- 1941- On December 7, Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 1941- On December 8, The United States official declares war on Japan.
- 1942-The Revenue Act of 1942 increases the number of Americans who pay income taxes.
- 1944 : D-Day : On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy.
- 1944 : December -The Germans launch a counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg named the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1945 : August 6-The United States drops "Little Boy" the 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
- 1945 : August 9-The United States drops "Fat Man" the 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 1947-Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play baseball for the Major Leagues.
- 1950-Senator Joseph McCarthy begins anti-communist charges.
- 1950-The Korean War begins.
- 1950-The United Nations, not America, officially declares war on North Korea.
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1962 : Seymour Courtney Bowen retires from Guadalupe
Valley Cotton Mills.
- 1963 : On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1965 : Seymour Courtney Bowen dies, buried at Hillside cemetery in
Cuero, Texas.
- 1968-Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. are assassinated.
- 1969- The U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon, Neil Armstrong is first man to walk on the moon.
1975 : Bessie Myrtle Phillips Bowen dies, buried at
Hillside cemetery in Cuero, Texas.
1997- Wayne Lanier Bowen dies June 11th,1997 buried
at Hillside cemetery in Cuero Texas in DeWitt County.
- Was a Marine Drill Instuctor,Served In Korea and two tours in Vietnam
while serving 22 years as a U.S. Marine.
- Sept. 11, 2001 : Saudi Arabian Muslim radical terrorists crash hijacked planes into the world Trade center's twin towers,
causing them to collapse a plane crashes into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and a field in Pennsylvania.
[ The Bowen Freedom Foundation ]
Bibliography
History Sources: Grolliers Encyclopedia 1996
Info on Adeline Courtney Rice and Abraham Bowen see the Bibliography on the Rice family page.
White County Marriages : Compiled from various sources including but not limited to family info,White County Clerk, For document copies contact:White County Clerk Main Street Carmi, IL 62821 phone 618/382-7211, us gen web pages, personal web pages,as well as familysearch.org ( the Mormon Church of Latter day Saints web site).
Bertie County Census info: from Bertie County courthouse records This census is from Microcopy No. T-498 Roll 2 "The Census 1790 NC Bertie county,Edington distict pg 11b."
1850 Jefferson County Illinois & 1910 Lavaca County, Texas census info supplied by my cousin James Bowen.
Bertie County Marriage info : from Bertie County courthouse records
Births : Supplied by Cousin James Bowen- Cousin Marlene Bowen and various on-line sources.
48th Illinois Union Army info: from Illinois State Archives on line records. Dyers report and Ajudent Generals report, and 48th army company "H" Muster rolls.
DeWitt Colony information from Texas State Historical Association , Handbook of Texas online.
The Bowen family web The Rootsweb edition 2000-2003
e-mail contact information
revised 7- 2002
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