TO THE LIST: Hope someone else is researching this family, if so please let me know. Thanks, Pat My family is: > >Benjamin Bowden(can't locate except in bible- born in England, died in >NC) >1) Son-Brian/Bryant Bowden, born in 1798, NC > Brian moved briefly to Ky, then Bibb Co ,Al where he married Rosa >Ann >Purtle in1825, daughter of Michael and Mary Purtle,Jr., >2) Rosa Ann and Brian/Bryant had twelve children. They moved to >CHickasaw >CO,Ms from AL. >3)Brian/Bryant BOwden died in 1854 somewhere near Memphis,Tn(again >per >family bible) > Rosa and children, some grown and married,moved to Hempstead >Co(Hope), >Arkansas where most remained.One of the sons was my great >grandfather: >4)George Washington Bowden married Melissa Jane Rayburn and they had >13 >children. George and father in law, Elisha Rayburn served in the >Civil War. >Elisha T Rayburn died in prison in Long Island,Ill. George W and four >brothers fought, two brothers were killed in the war.One of the sons >of >this union was my grandfather: >5)Joseph Downs Bowden(child of George W Bowden and Melissa) married >Willard >Myers in Marshall,Texas. They had 5 children. Willard died in 1920 >in >Kerrville,Tx. Joseph Bowden, died in 1960 in Alexandria,La, buried >in >Hope,Ar.One of their sons was my father: >6)Stuart Eugene Bowden, who married Georgia Mae Purtle, descendant of >George Purtle who was a brother to Rosa Ann Purtle, listed in (1). >They >have 3 children >7)Patricia Ann Bowden m James E Crumpton > Have two children and two grandchildren > >This is a fair summary of my Bowden connections. I have details of >all >siblings since the marriage of Bryant and Rosa Bowden but have been >unable >to find anything at all on Benjamin Bowden , nothing on possible >siblings of >Bryant, etc. >