===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: ALCONECU-L@rootsweb.com From: conecuh_hs@hotmail.com Subject: 1883 Yellow Fever Quarantine Proclamation This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4R.2ADE/1635 Message Board Post: From the Mayor's Office, Evergreen, Ala., October 1, 1883: Pursuant to recommendation of the Town Council of the town of Evergreen, I, W.H. Herrington, Mayor of said town, do hereby proclaim and quarantine against Pensacola, Pensacola Navy Yard, Warrington and Woolsey, Fla., Brewton and Pollard, Alabama, and all places infected with yellow fever, to the effect that until after an absence of at least twenty (20) days from either of said places, or from the territory within four miles thereof, no person, personal luggage, merchandise or freight of any kind shall be allowed to come within the corporate limits of the town of Evergreen, except for the purpose of passing through on through trains, until public notice of the discontinuance of this quarantine. The penalties prescribed by an ordinance for violation of this quarantine, are a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment or hard labor, not less than ten or more than one hundred days, one or both." 'Signed by W.H. Herrington, Mayor--Witnessed by P. D. Bowles, Clerk.' ================================================ Then Freda Noble (tnoble@mcn.org) of our list sent me this item: >From: conecuh_hs@hotmail.com >Sender: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com >Date: 12 Jun 2005 21:21:52 -0600 >To: ALCONECU-L@rootsweb.com > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4R.2ADE/1635.1.1 > >Message Board Post: > I believe that would indeed be our own Pinckney D. Bowles of the Conecuh Guards. According to family records, Col. Bowles passed away Jul 25, 1910 and he and his wife, Alice Irene (Stearns) Bowles are both buried in the Old Historical Evergreen Cemetery.