Family: "Reason" "Rezin" Bowie / Elve Catesby Jones (F6497)

• Father | Male "Reason" "Rezin" Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1758	Maryland
  Died	Between 1819 and 1821	Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
  Buried
  Married	8 Mar 1782  [1]	Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia  [1]
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  Mother | Female Elve Catesby Jones

  
  

  Born	Abt 1762	Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
  Died	Abt 1837	Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
  Buried
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  Child 1 | Male David Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1784	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Male John Jones Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1785	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Bef 1818	Louisiana
  Buried
  Spouse	Nancy Scoggins | F6496
  Married	Abt 1806	Louisiana

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Sarah Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1787	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Mary Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1789	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Martha Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1791	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 6 | Female Mary Bowie

  
  

  Born	4 May 1792	Burke County, Georgia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Rezin Pleasants Bowie

  
  

  Born	8 Sep 1793	Tennessee
  Died	17 Jan 1841	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  Buried

  
  

  Child 8 | Male James Bowie

  
  

  Born	Abt 1795	Logan County, Kentucky
  Died	6 Mar 1836	The Alamo, San Fernando de B?xar, Coahuila And Texas, United Mexican States
  Buried
  Spouse	Ursula De Veramendi | F6510
  Married	25 Apr 1831	San Fernando DE B?xar, Coahuila And Texas, United Mexican States

  
  

  Child 9 | Male Stephen Bowie

  
  

  Born	1797	Kentucky
  Died	Abt 1831	Louisiana
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Excerpts from Steve Goodson's article "Bowie" http://www.texfiles.com/texashistory/goodsonbowie.htm Reason, had served in the Revolutionary War and was captured in Savannah. Savannah prisoners were allowed visits from sympathizers who often brought them food and clothing. One such sympathizer, a young lady named Elve Jones, of a prominent Georgia family, became acquainted with Reason and after the war in 1782, married him. Elve bore Reason ten children, five girls and five boys. Reason Bowie left Kentucky for Louisiana where he first went to Catahoula, the Bayou Teche and Opelousas, where he died in 1819. Elve Jones Bowie died in Shreveport in the home of her youngest daughter in 1837.

  
  

• Sources

  [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Lawrence, David (david.lawrence@sdsu.edu) "Lawrence, Lyons , and Allied Families" (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi -bin/igm.cgi?db=samlyons) Ver. Fri Apr 4 08:55:13 (Reliability: 3).