This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bowman Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JB.2ACE/377 Message Board Post: The Marble Hill Press, Marble Hill, MO February 18, 1903 Rev. B. L. Bowman of Marble Hill spent Sunday with his son, C. C. Bowman. He is one of the oldest Baptist preachers in this section of Missouri, and was the first man to raise a company of the Confederacy west of the Mississippi River. ~ Dexter Messanger