Martha Bowie

Abt 1791 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Martha Bowie  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1791	Burke County, Georgia   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Married a STERRETT.
  Person ID	I17499	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	"Reason" "Rezin" Bowie,   b. Abt 1758, Maryland d. Between 1819 and 1821, Opelousa, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Elve Catesby Jones,   b. Abt 1762, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia d. Abt 1837, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	8 Mar 1782	Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia   [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

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1791 - Burke County, Georgia  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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  [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).