Groom: Bowden, Dan Bride: Connor, Mary Date: 1874Sep02 Groom: Cohnon, J. M. Bride: Bowens, L. G. Date: 1878July04 Groom: Looney, M. V. Bride: Bowens, Lucinda Date: 1878July04 Groom: Bowden, Bill Bride: Moore, Pernana Date: 1895Jan05 Groom: Bowen, Pete Bride: Murry, Martha Date: 1889Feb17 Groom: Davis, F. L. Bride: Bowen, Hallie Date: 1887Nov16 Groom: Coward, A. L. Bride: Bowen, Jeffie Date: 1889Sept18 ---------- Original Message ----------------------- From: MEGBR549@aol.com Reply-To: TXMILAM-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:42:13 EST >hello all, (see newspaper account below)Thanks for the posting > >I am thinking this O.A. Bowen is the same fellow that married amelia louisa >dodd and lost her in child birth?--i have found the O.A. Bowen again in milam >records--he worked at a grocery/ dry goods store as a young man in Milam. > >I believe the D.A. Bowen is the same man as- O.A .BOWEN. The newspaper account >DOES show that the child Mary BOWEN, the surviving infant of amelia dodd >bowen--did have a father who stayed around Milam co. and married again and >raised a family. We do not know who raised Mary L. Bowen and have thought it >was her aunt Synthia Dodd Grabener-who was a nursing mother when the infant >was left motherless? Especially knowing that Mary wed her first >cousin-oldest son charles of theo and synthia elizabeth grabener. > In our records we do not find this young woman in a household until 1880 >living in the household of her uncle Louis taylor dodd with her grandma Lucy >Cave Dodd Autry, her aunt victoria and some cousins. > >And in the scheme of relationships: this young woman( see below) who >married-1903- would have been half sister to mary louise bowen grabener >(first wife of charles grabener and who also died in childbirth-like her >mother). > >The BOWEN poppa named one child, mary louise and the other Lucile. > >Cameron Herald, Thur., 1 Oct 1903 - Supplement > >Elopement - following special from Rockdale, Sept. 25, appeared in the Waco >Times-Herald of last Saturday - Miss Lucile Bowen, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. O. >A. Bowen and Kenneth King, formerly a resident here but now of St. Louis >eloped last night. At 10 p.m., Rev. W. E. Copeland married the couple at his >home and the couple is now on their way to St. Louis. > > > > > >==== TXMILAM Mailing List ==== >Milam County, Texas GenWeb page >http://www.geocities.com/milamco/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp? targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >