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Alfred Jackson Bowen, I, is the son of John Hunter Bowen & Susannah Elizabeth Strickland. He married Ann Elizabeth "Annie Eliza" Williams on 04 JAN 1883 in Bulloch County, Georgia. There were thirteen (13) children from this marriage, twelve (12) survived to maturity. He owned and operated two farms, about a mile apart, in the Adabelle area of Bulloch County, Georgia. Prior to his death, he sold one of the farms, the one he did not live on, which today lies in the County of Evans (created by the Georgia Legislature in the year 1914). Both he and his wife are interred in the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia.

Listed below are all the siblings of Rebecca Ann Bowen, including her, in birth order:

1) - Macey Ann Catherine Bowen, b. 30 Oct 1850, d. 15 Apr 1935, married Pharis Elkins Phillips (1855-1913). Both are interred at Middleground Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia.

2) - Elisha Jackson Bowen, b. 10 Aug 1852, d. d. 19 May 1930. His Death Certificate, dated June 1, 1930, states he is interred in Bulloch County however as of this writing his grave has not been found, and a findagrave.com Memorial Record has been established by a descendant in the findagrave.com record in Middleground Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery (in this writer’s opinion it would be appropriate to place a Stone Memorial there next to his Mother Headstone monument, or next to his father’s monument at Bowen-Dekle Cemetery, Candler County, Georgia. The search is still on for his burial site).

3) - Rebecca Ann Bowen, b. 01 Apr 1855, d. 12 Nov 1937, married John Malcolm Warnock (1851-1941), both are interred at Middleground Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia.

4) - Alfred Jackson Bowen (Sr.), b. 31 May 1858, d. 06 Dec 1929, married Ann Elizabeth "Annie Eliza" Williams, both are interred in Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, on US Highway 301, Bulloch County, Georgia.

5) - Margaret Elizabeth Bowen, b. 1860, d. 03 Jun 1934, married (1) Henry Grady Foston (1863 d. Unknown), burial unknown, and (2), a widower and CSA Veteran, Peter Cone Richardson (1839-1918), buried in the Peter Cone Richardson Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia next to his first wife. Margaret had one child with her first husband and one child with her second husband. She is interred at Middleground Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia where all her sisters that survived to maturity are interred.

6) - Silas Everett Bowen, b. 09 Feb 1862, d. 20 Sep 1931, His Death Certificate, dated December 30, 1931 by Registrar, Mrs. D. C. Jones, states his place of internment as Trinity Cemetery on 21 Sep 2014. An existing Trinity Cemetery, in Bulloch County, Georgia at the time of his death has not yet been found by this writer as of October 28, 2014. The search is still on for his burial site, however his direct descendants may decide to erect a Memorial Monument in a Bulloch County Cemetery. It this occurs, this biography will be updated accordingly.

7) - Deborah Bowen, b. 29 Jun 1865, d. Aug 1865, in infancy. Deborah is interred in the Bowen-Dekle Family Cemetery, Candler County, Georgia, adjacent to her father, John Hunter Bowen. Her grave is in the same cemetery plot containing the graves of her grandparents and her uncle Robert Bowen, born 1804, died circa 1805, who also died in infancy.

8) - William P. Bowen, b. 1866, d. unknown, burial site unknown at this time. It is said he married and he and his wife had several children in the Bulloch County, Georgia area. A search is currently underway and hopefully an update can be made soon. Stay tuned!


This biography is a WORK IN PROGRESS and is written by William Kenneth Bowen, Grandson of Alfred Jackson Bowen, Sr., and son of Alfred Jackson Bowen, Jr. on March 12, 2012.Son of John Hunter Bowen & Susannah Elizabeth Strickland. There were thirteen (13) children from this marriage, twelve (12) survived to maturity. He owned and operated two farms, about a mile apart, in the Adabelle area of Bulloch County, Georgia. Prior to his death, he sold one of the farms, the one he did not live on, which today lies in the County of Evans (created by the Georgia Legislature in the year 1914). Both he and his wife are interred in the Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Bulloch County, Georgia.


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