Dixon Bowen
Dixon Bowen was born on 3 June 1792, in South Carolina by the census, and died on 26 December 1879 in Henry County, Georgia. He spent at least fifty two of those years in Henry County. Every clerk of the nineteenth century who wrote him down spelled him DICKSON. The twentieth century spells him Dixon.
He was there by 1828. That September the Macon Telegraph advertised a sheriff's sale of a hundred and fifty acres, lot 195 in the 11th district, "levied on as the property of Daniel McIver, to satisfy sundry fi fas in favor of Dickson Bowen". A fi fa was a writ of execution for a debt. He was the creditor.
He sat on the county grand jury in December 1835 and again in October 1848, both times under the foreman John T. Bently. Grand jurors were drawn from freeholders of standing. In February 1844 he was living in the 491st Militia District, where he and Nathaniel Carrol valued a stray mare taken up by William Gleaton. The Southern Recorder printed the entry from the county estray book: "one cream colored mare, with dark mane, tail and legs, deficient in the left eye, six years old, appraised by Dickson Bowen and Nathaniel Carrol, to thirty dollars." The Bowens, Pucketts, Stanleys and Thurmans held ground in the 491st for the next sixty years.
He married twice. His first wife was Sarah Lee, born on 9 November 1799, who died on 16 May 1844. His second, by a Find a Grave memorial, was Elizabeth Cagle Barnett. The children of the two marriages run from 1816 to 1864, a span of forty eight years.
In the family burial ground at Stockbridge, descendants set up a granite monument headed "DIXON BOWEN'S 18 CHILDREN". It lists them in two columns. Solomon L. Bowen, 1817 to 1898, heads the first, under the words "CREEK INDIAN WAR OF 1836". Stephen J., 1827 to 1888, is under "CO. H. 1ST ALA. INF. CSA". Six more stand under "SONS IN CO. K 22ND GA. INF. CSA": Elzey T., 1820 to 1862; William H., 1822 to 1887; Marcus D., 1824 to 1864; Noah J., 1833 to 1925; David C., 1836 to 1862; and John N., 1838 to 1862. The second column holds Eunicy B. Posey, Martha, Sarah B. Ford, Mary B. Mosley, Nancy B. Townsend, Joseph C., Seth E., Benjamin F., Thomas H. and Henry T.
He died shortly before 15 January 1880. On that day Noah J. Bowen petitioned for letters of administration on the estate of "Dickson Bowen, late of said county, deceased". Notice to debtors and creditors went out that August, and leave to sell all the real estate was asked on 29 September 1880. N. J. Bowen petitioned for letters of dismission on 4 January 1882. Dixon lies in the Bowen family ground at Stockbridge, near Sarah Lee and their son Solomon.
His own parents are not proved. A memorial makes him a son of Capt. Samuel Bowen, 1756 to 1843, a Revolutionary officer who lived in Wilkes County, Georgia from 1811 to 1826. Solomon is said to have been born in Wilkes County in 1817, which fits. Dixon's own South Carolina birthplace in 1792 fits less well, because Samuel's sworn declaration keeps him in North Carolina until 1796.
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Cite: Heirology, "Dixon Bowen (1792-1879)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/dixon-bowen-1792-1879-83af53.