The following is taken from a family note..it tells a lot of Bowles history but is almost in code.. I am sending it so others might put some small piece of it together in their family history.. Thomas Bowles 1813 vol 115 m. Nancy Matilda Boles 1783 1850 Juliet Bowles 1784 Philip Bowles vol 105 Thomas Philip Bowles vol 66 John Bowles 1759 1808 vol 21 Thomas Bowles 1813 vol 129 David Bowles 1750 78 vol 41 Thomas Bowles vol 126 Samuel Bowles 1773 Anne Bowles 1804 1875 Permelia Frances married Uncle Ike Holt Arthur Eugene Holt their son Frances Emily Judy mother Bradley Ike Holt Frances Emily Judy married Stephen D. Bowles mother of David Franklin Bowles Aunt Tabitha Smalley Uncle Dudley Smalley and Aunt Becky Gaines were Uncle Ike's sisters. Bradley mother of Frances Emily Judy. Uncle Ike Holt's children were Alice and Jewel Elizabeth and son Wysong Uncle Ike married Peremelia Bowles. They had one sone Arthur Holt David Bowles' will was filed in Bourbon Co.KY, He died about 1806. He had a son Jessie one Stephen I have been informed that you have on record the will of David Bowles who died about 1806 My father's name was David Franklin Bowles. He was born in Carroll Co. Mo. in 8 21 1851 His father came from Ky. His name was Stephen Decator or Decatur Bowles. My grandfather's wife maiden name was Frances Emily Judy born in Ky. Died in Mo. She was the wife of Stephen Decator Bowles This is all the information that I have on this line Written by Myrtle Bowles Crabtree Date unknown submitted by Lorraine Chandler great-granddaughter of David Franklin Bowles. e-mail address: [email protected]