Ancestors

Solomon Levi Bowen

1817-1898 · Knob district, Henry County, Georgia
Born 1817, Georgia
Died 1898
Children include Lucinda

Solomon Levi Bowen was born on 10 December 1817 in Georgia, by one account in Wilkes County. He was the eldest son of Dixon Bowen and Sarah Lee, who had eighteen children between them and Dixon's second wife. As a young man of eighteen he served as a private in a company of Georgia volunteers in the Creek War of 1836.

On 21 July 1844, in Henry County, he married Mary Cook before Allen Cleveland, minister of the gospel. His mother had died nine weeks before. He farmed in the Knob district of Henry County, in the rolling country south east of Atlanta, where his father had held land since the 1820s. Mary was about ten years younger than him.

The 1870 census finds the house full: Sarah, twenty; Lucinda, nineteen; Dickson, eighteen; Ellen, eleven; and Eliza, three. Find a Grave links add Samuel Jefferson, a second Sarah, and Elza Thomas, called Tom.

The 1880 census index places a Solomon Bowen of the right age, with a wife Mary and a son Dickson, in district 124 of Richmond County, at the other end of the state. Whether the family really moved east, or the index has the county wrong, is not settled. His daughter Lucinda stayed in Henry County with the man she had married.

He died on 10 March 1898, aged eighty, and is buried in the Bowen family ground at Stockbridge, near his father and mother. Mary died the next year and lies there too. Two photographs of him in old age survive, showing a white-bearded man.

Children

Lucinda C. Bowen 1850-1904

Sources

the 1870 federal census of Knob district, Henry County, and the 1880 federal census of district 124, Richmond County, Georgia; and the Georgia death certificates of his grandsons, which give his daughter's maiden name
The Henry County Weekly of 1880 to 1882, Georgia Historic Newspapers lccn sn89053243, which is an earlier and separate title from the paper of the same name used elsewhere on these cards
The Henry County Weekly, McDonough, Georgia, Georgia Historic Newspapers lccn sn89053246, read from the issues named
Henry County, Georgia, Marriage Book 1837-1851, Georgia Archives Virtual Vault collection countyfilm, printed page 255, with the book's own alphabetical index reading BOWEN SOLOMON 255

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