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Francis W. Bowen

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Francis W. Bowen
birth: 11 Nov 1780 in Faurquier County, VA to Thomas Bowen and Rebecca Green
death: 20 Aug 1867 in Boone County, IN
burial: Dover, Boone County, IN

marriage: 31 Jul 1806 in Frederick County, MD
Sarah Glascock Turley
birth: 4 Oct 1788 in Fauquier County, VA to William Turley and Margaret Glascock
death: 12 Jul 1874 in Dover, Boone County, IN
burial: Dover, Boone County, IN

Children of Sarah Glascock Turley and Francis W. Bowen:

  • John Alexander b 18 Jun 1808 d 30 Sep 1871 M Jane Wilson
  • Eliza b 23 Mar 1810 d1904 M William Andrew Harris
  • Margaret b 2 Mar 1812 d about 1885 M Henry P. Rogers
  • William Francis b 16 Jul 1814 dafter 1871
  • Elizabeth Frances b 12 Jul 1816 d 9 Apr 1874 M Wesley Wilson Beck
  • Sampson Carson b 19 Aug 1818 d 6 Dec 1899 M Mary Ann Burk
  • Matthew F. b 12 Sept 1820 d 21 Aug 1896 M Catherine Ann “Kitty” Meenach
  • Catharine b 2 May 1823 d 2 Jun 1892 M Ambrose Cox
  • James b 5 Jul 1825 d after 1871 M Margaret J Pride
  • J Jacob b 15 Oct 1827 d?
  • Nancy Jane b 16 Oct 1827 d 22 Jan 1899 M Samuel S Shreve
  • Sarah Ann b 3 Apr 1829 d 28 Nov 1890 M Lewis McKern
  • Harrison Turley b 25 Mar 1834 d 4 Mar 1917

Ancestor here lived in:

1840-1867 Boone County, IN

Ancestor also lived in:

1780-1815 Fauquier and Rockingham counties, VA
1816-1834 Bracken, Harrison, Nicholas, Bourbon counties, KY

Other Information:

Served in the 1st Regiment (Crutchfield’s) Virginia Militia during the War of 1812

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Sandra L Norfolk
Email: librariancr@gmail.com

Thomas Pride

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Thomas Pride
birth: 1790 in Tennessee to Woolsey Pride, b 1760 and (possibly) Rachel Gold
death: 08 Jan 1856 in Pike County, Indiana
burial: Iva Cemetery (once known as Pride Graveyard); Iva, Pike County, Indiana

marriage: 12 July 1809 in Knox County, Indiana
Caty Miley
birth: About 1793 in Pennsylvania to Heinrich “Henry” Miley and Mary Polly Herndon
death: About 1846 in Pike County, Indiana
burial: Unknown (Lost to time)

Children of Caty Miley and Thomas Pride:

  • Henry Pride in 1814-Unknown, married Rhoda Fowler on 24 Sep 1837 in Pike County, Indiana
  • Other children, including a Woolsey Pride, dates unknown at this time

Ancestor here lived in:

About 1800 – before 21 Dec 1816, Knox County, Indiana (where his father, Woolsey Pride established White Oak Springs Fort)
From 21 Dec 1816 (when Pike became a county) until his death in 1856, Thomas lived in Pike County, Indiana

Other Information:

Census records indicate that Thomas Pride was born in Tennessee

1812 – Militia, Knox County, Indiana.

Listed in the 1820, 1830.1840, and 1850 census records for Pike County, Indiana.

1820 – appointed as a commissioner to “view, locate, and mark the route chosen for the ‘state road’ from Troy to Washington (part of an article from The Herald; Jasper, Indiana · Friday, October 31, 1975)

Married Martha “Patsy” (Ragsdale) Palmer (widow of Mark Palmer) on 03 Nov 1846.

As reported in the Princeton Clarion-Leader, Princeton, Indiana on 29 Mar 1851, Thomas was appointed as a Jefferson Township, Pike County delegate to the Congressional convention to be held in Perry County, Indiana.

Several mentions in history books of the era, including “Executive journal of Indiana Territory, 1800-1816: Journal of the proceedings of the executive government of the Indiana territory”; “History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana” published by Goodspeed in 1886; “History of Pike and Dubois counties, Indiana” published by Goodspeed Bros in 1885.

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Sonya Grams
Email: sonyric214@hotmail.com