Well Linne you are finally getting close to the date of my Bowels. She was Martha Patsy Bowles and was born abt.1778 in Amherst, Virginia. She married John Montgomery Housewright Senior and the had either 9 or 10 children. John was born abt 1760 in Amherst and he married her at the age of 14. She was given permission to marry by her father James Bowels who it is believed he and wife Mary were born in England. Any assistance greatly appreciated. Lisa Kauffman krazylisa2@earthlink.net -------Original Message------- From: Linne Gravestock Date: 07/26/05 23:21:26 To: BOWLES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Ony Bowles m. Rev. Andrew Yeargin ===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: ENGLISH-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Peter_McCrae" <peter_mccrae@pmccrae.co.uk> Subject: YEARGAN; Nathan Charlotte Sims Davis-UK & USA Nathan A. F. & Charlotte Sims Davis Yeargan From: Proud Heritage, Vol 2 by DCPA. Nathan A. F. & Charlotte Sims Davis Yeargan Rev. Andrew Yeargan came from Wales in 1735 and was a minister in the Roanoke and James River valleys of Virginia. The first Methodist Chapel built in Virginia was named "Yeargan's Chapel." He married Ony Bowles and they had eleven children. The family moved to North Carolina after the Revolutionary War, and, in the early 1800s, moved on to Greenville, South Carolina, where Rev. Yeargan died. His son, Benjamin Yeargan, served as an assistant surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and married Sarah Morgan Patterson. He donated the land and was an organizer and trustee of the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Benjamin's son, Bardett Yeargan, was bom in 1790 in Chapel Hill, and moved to Williamson County, Tennessee in 1812. He was married to Mary A. Lawrence, and they raised twelve children. Among these was Nathan A. F. Yeargan, bom in Tennessee in 1821. In 1844, he married Charlotte Sears Davis, and they had twelve children. They came to Dallas in 1855 and built a log cabin at what is now the McKinney Avenue-Fitzhugh intersection. During the Civil War, Nathan was a Confederate Army captain. In 1884, he left the First Methodist Church of Dallas, which was difficult to get to in bad weather and organized the McKinney Avenue Methodist Mission, with eleven members. This congregation grew steadily, and, in 1900, its 1,000 members erected the beautiful Trinity Methodist Church, which was a longtime Dallas landmark at McKinney and Pearl Streets. Nathan died in 1894 and Charlotte in 1898. Their son, Powell Benjamin Yeargan, bom in 1850 in Tennessee, came to Dallas with his parents in a covered wagon in 1855. As a teenage drover, he helped herd 5,000 cattle from Dallas to California in 1868, overcoming deserts and Comanche and Apache Indians in the four-month drive. In 1890, he married May Webb, and, in 1905, they became the parents of today's DCPA member. May Ruth Griffin. She married (1) Henry Clark White in 1921 and divorced in 1938. She married (2) Henry Leroy Griffin who died in 1966. May Ruth Griffin now lives in Grand Prairie, and attends DCPA meetings in Dallas regularly. She is the proud owner of a 1902 "Dallas Exchange" telephone directory. Powell B. Yeargan's adopted son, Benjamin P. Yeargan (1896-1974) and his friend, Reveaux Bassett, hunted ducks at Bachman Lake in Dallas while working for the Dallas Morning News. Later Bassett became an internationally-known painter of ducks and other wildlife. His paintings are now valued possessions. Ben Yeargan moved to Missouri and hunted ducks there. He became famous for his hand-carved duck and geese decoys which are all in collections now. Submitted by: May Ruth Griffin Grand Prairie, TX 75050 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 7/25/2005