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Mary Bowie

Female Abt 1789 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Mary Bowie  [1
    Birth Abt 1789  Burke County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I17498  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father "Reason" "Rezin" Bowie,   b. Abt 1758, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1819 and 1821, Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Mother Elve Catesby Jones,   b. Abt 1762, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1837, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Marriage 8 Mar 1782  Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • 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.
    Family ID F6497  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [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).