Dear David: It has been a while since we communicated via e-mail. You had shared with me much information about our common descendants. My line is my father, Joseph Worth Bowles(8), Gilbert Bowles(7), Joseph Martin Bowles(6), Holman Bowles(5), Jesse Bowles II (4), Jesse Bowles(3), Capt. David Bowles(2) and John Bowles (1). I have some news about Jesse Bowles (3), who died 1837 in Quincy, Ill the brother of your Jesse Bowles. Last June, I was in Quincy, Ill for a wedding and was determined to find more information about the Jesse Bowles Line, specifically the location of the Bowles family cemetery where Jesse, Chloe Parker Bowles and other Bowles members were buried. I was successful. I checked the land records and found the cemetery that was reported in a Quincy County Library book on local cemeteries as "canvassed in the 1960s." The land records showed a Bowles descendant, Arthur Bowles, the descendant of one of Jesse's sons, Augustus ( I can check his first name -- I have the records at home) had sold the plot for $1.00 to a family who had purchased the land surrounding the cemetery and wanted to build a house. Apparently no one had been interred since the late 1800's and it was grown up in weeds and uncared for. Next, I found the deed to the family who purchased it, asked Mrs. Kau! fmann who had the Kaufmann Bed and Breakfast I was staying in if she knew the family and sure enough she did, and told me exactly where the cemetery was located on the north edge of Quincy. Mrs. Kaufmann had lived in the area all her life. Mrs. K. then called and set up an appointment so I could go and visit the owners. The land where Jesse Bowles lived and the cemetery are located is in a very good, prosperous farming area. The family who purchased the land were in the apple orchard business and now the land is inside Quincy on the corner of a main road and a state highway. The family built a brick house on the corner in the late 1960s and the same couple still lives there, although in frail health. The wife walked with me through the black locust grove trees where the cemetery was located and told me where the head stones had stood and she remembered the headstone of a child and where it was buried. She also said they just laid the headstones down where they had stood and c! leared the weeds and the stones have sunk into the ground. I was relieved to know the stones had not been destroyed or were setting in some barn. The grove of black locust trees are still there, very very tall and beautiful and are directly behind their house on the street. I told the owners the history of the black locust trees, when they were planted and that the seedlings had come from Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1831. Ladies working in the Adams County Clerk's office remembered the cemetery, too. I was very grateful to Mrs. Kaufmann for setting up the appointment with her friend as I know the elderly lady would have been reluctant to talk to a stranger about her land. If you or anyone else has an interest, I can provide the name, street address and cross road location for the black locust grove and where the cemetery really still is. My next search effort is to find where Capt. David Bowles and Jesse Bowles are buried in Bourbon County, Kentucky. I know Capt. David Bowles's name is inscribed on the Bourbon County Courthouse placque listing Bourbon County residents who served in the Revolutionary War. You had suggested to me several years ago I should start in the Jacktown Road area. I would also like to find the house Socrates Bowles lived in. I believe it is on the Bourbon County webside for historical houses. If you have any information I would appreciate it. I suspect there was a country cemetery where David, Jesse and others were buried, or even on a corner of their land. I've checked the cemeteries in Bourbon County via the internet and didn't discover anything.on Jesse Bowles or Hannah, his wife, or David Bowles. If I'm going to be an old lady and wear purple, I figured I also needed to be a member of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and joined on Capt. David Bowles's record. Hannah Bowles Butler had joined on Capt. David Bowles's service in Bourbon County, Kentucky in about 1904. Good to hear from you about Robert Letcher Bowles. Sorry I can't help you on Eleanor. Margo Bowles David Bush <twoburps@adelphia.net> wrote: Back to the family of Robert Letcher Bowles, Sr. (1788-1856). married Annie Foreman, December 13, 1813 in Bourbon Co., Ky. who farmed somewhere near Jackstown in Bourbon Co., Kentucky. They had the following children: [1]William (Robert Letcher Bowles, Sr. (4) Jesse(3) Capt. David(2) John(1)who, we know, died at age twenty-six. And that is all we know about him? Pure speculation: could he have died in the great Civil War?? [2]Eleanor Bowles (Robert Letcher Bowles, Sr.(4), Jessee(3), Capt. David(2), John(1) was born September 24, 1814 and died December 16, 1872. She married Charles W. Taylor who was the older brother of Wesley Lander Taylor who married her sister, Emmarine Bowles. The Taylors lived on Harrod's Creek near North Middletown, Bourbon Co., Ky. Charles W. Taylor was born about 1811 in Bourbon Co., Ky. s/o Simon Taylor and Rebecca Lander. He died about 1875 in Miller Township, Marion Co. Mo and was buried in the old Whaley Cemetery in Miller Township, Marion Co., Missouri. 1850 Federal Census Miller Township, Marion Co., Missouri: #466/#493 Charles W. Taylor, 39 (1811), Ky. Ellen (Eleanor?), 32 (1818), Ky. Martha A. Taylor, 06 (1844), Mo. Mary E. Taylor, 01 (1849), Mo. SCOURCE: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, 1850 Census of Marion Co., Missouri, (Chillicothe, Mo.;n. pub., n.d.), pg. 30. Children of Charles W. Taylor and Eleanor Bowles: [1]Martha A. Taylor. [2]Mary E. Taylor. ENDNOTE: David Lander, "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky", (Published by Peggy Roberts Brown Chapman, 1503 47th, Lubbock, Texas, 79412, Copyright 1993), page 192, Ref. #134. Looking for what happened to Eleanor Bowles?? Was she buried in Missouri?? Is there anybody out there in cyber land connected to the daughters of this union??