Vince: J. BOWN DEC AUG. THE 6 1865 Semper Fi - Bob "Vincent E. Summers" wrote: > > What is the text, please, of the BOWN stone, in full? Thanks, > Vince > > bob bowen wrote: > > > > I've been told that my original message was jumbled to a point it could > > not be read. Here is is again. As far as the referenced photos are > > concerned, if you want copies, send me a separate message and I'll send > > them to you as an attachment to my reply. > > > > Hi: > > > > Just back from a quick visit to the Bowen Cemetery on Rt. 621 in Craig > > County. Would be interested in talking with the person who recorded this > > cemetery (it's posted on the Craig County web site) because there are > > some additions that need to be made to the list. Also, Mr. & Mrs. Joyce > > who now own the land on which the cemetery rests, says that at some time > > in the early 1900's, an orphanage was located on the property. Do any > > of you have any information about this orphanage? > > > > The land in question was in the Bowen family from 1788 to at least 1905 > > (John Bowen to son, James Bowen to son James L. Bowen). John and his > > wife Elizabeth are believed to be buried in the cemetery. James Bowen > > assumed ownership upon the death of his parents per an 1823 agreement on > > file in Montgomery County. James' estate was settled in 1866. He is > > believed to be the J. Bown who died in August 1865. His grave is marked > > with an inscribed field stone. His son, James L. (blind mattress maker) > > is shown living in the house in the 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1900 census for > > Craig County. He is the "J. L. BOWAN, DEC AUG 15, 1905 AGD. 78 YS" > > buried in the cemetery. > > > > I'm attaching three photos to this message. (1) the cemetery, (2) J. > > Bown's marker & (3), J. L. Bowan's marker. > > > > Semper Fi - Bob Bowen in Woodbridge, VA > > > > -- > > Protect our Flag > > > > ==== VACRAIG Mailing List ==== > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > ...........................CRAIG MAILING LIST.......................... > > To unsubscribe from the VA CRAIG List, send a message to the following: > > VACRAIG-L-request@rootsweb.com with ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the > > body of the message. Your request will be processed automatically. So > > please be sure that this is the ONLY thing that appears in the body. If > > you're sending a signature file along it will cause it to fail. THANKS > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > ==== VACRAIG Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ...........................CRAIG MAILING LIST.......................... > The VACraig Mailing List is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data > Cooperative. RootsWeb is sponsored entirely by you, the genealogy com- > munity. To find out how you can help support internet genealogy through > RootsWeb, why not go ahead right now and visit this page: > .........http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html........ > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > The -- Protect our Flag