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Dear Joey,
Here is what is in the book Bowie's and their Kindred by Walter Worthington Bowie under South Carolina Bowies:
pg.331
Luther Alfred Bowie (Samuel Bowie, Maj. John Bowie, emigrant)
the eldest son of Samuel Bowie and his wife, Allethia (Adair) Bowie, was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, July 14, 1818. After attaining his majority he removed with his brothers to Mississippi, and engaged in cotton-planting near Edinboro'. October 15, 1846, he was married to Mahala F. Allen, by whom he had two children, and died January 8, 1851. His widow later became the wife of Dr. G. L. Perry, of Edinboro', Mississippi, where they resided in 1897.
Issue of L. A. Bowie:
I Margaret Allethia Bowie, b. April 4,1848; married Allen H. Moss, of Leake County, and died in 1890.
II Samuel Alexander Bowie, b. March 6, 1850. Removed to Texas. By the accidental discharge of his gun he lost his right arm. July 7, 1897, married Mary Tucker, of Quitman, Texas.
Luther's father:
pg.317
Samuel Bowie, (Maj. John Bowie, emigrant)
the tenth child of Maj. John Bowie and his wife, Rosa (Reid) Bowie, was born at Abbeville, South Carolina, July 19, 1788. Was a cotton-planter, and resided near Abbeville. August 28, 1817, he married Alethea Adair, of Laurens District, South Carolina. She was born April 21, 1793. He died January 6, 1837, and his widow on January 15, 1839, married James I Gilmer. She died November 7, 1841.
Issue of Samuel Bowie and Alethea, his wife:
I Luther Alfred Bowie, b. July 4, 1818, m. 1846; d. January 8, 1851.
II Pickney Geddes Bowie, b. March 27, 1820; m. 1842; d. November, 1871.
III George Alexander Bowie, b. April 8, 1822. Removed to Mississippi, engaged in cotton planting, and married Minerva Steel. He died September 20, 1856.
IV Margaret Elizabeth Bowie; b. March 28, 1826; m. James Harrison of Edgefield, South Carolina, and died November 4, 1841, leaving an infant who died at the age of five years.
V Benjamin Franklin Bowie, b. 1827; d. in infancy.
VI William Langdon Bowie, b. February 7, 1828; d. September 18, 1851. He entered the mercantile house of James S. and Langdon Bowie, in Charleston, South Carolina, but his health failing he went to Europe and passed a year in the south of France. Returned to Abbeville, where he died of consumption a few months later.
father of Samuel:
Maj. John Bowie, eldest son of James Bowie and his wife, Margaret Tyre, was born May 10, 1740 in the Parish of New Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire, Scotland. The Parish Registers now preserved at Edinburgh show John Bowie was the eldest of nine children; that his parents were married June 11, 1739, and that his father, James Bowie, was the son of John Bowie, Jr., of "Denny," Stirlingshire, and his wife, Janet Young.
John Bowie, emigrated to America and landed in Virginia June 8, 1862. July 28, 1767, he married Rosa Reid who was born in 1743, and was the daughter of Col. George Reid, of Virginia, a native of Cecil County, Maine, where he was born in 1727.
Mrs. Rosa Bowie died March 29, 1807, aged sixty-four. Major Bowie died September 20, 1827.
Issue:
I James Bowie, b. December 21, 1768;d. in 1770.
II James Bowie, b. 1770; d. 1781, from the effects of smallpox, from which he had nearly recovered, when, seeing a party of Tories approaching the house he ran to give the alarm, and the exertion and excitement caused a fatal relapse.
III George Bowie, b. January 28, 1772; m. Louisa A. Pickens; d. August 31, 1864.
IV Andrew Bowie, b. November 20, 1773; m. Rosey A. Watts; d. January 26, 1808.
V John Bowie, Jr., b. March 3, 1776; m. Sarah Harwell; d. February 14, 1821.
VI Margaret Bowie, b. June 15, 1779; d. two years later while the family were flying to North Carolina to escape the British.
VII William Bowie, b. August 9, 1782; m. Nancy J. Strain; d. March 13, 1845.
VIII Rosa Bowie, b. April 3, 1784; d. March 20, 1798, at school in Augusta.
IX Robert Bowie, b. June 27, 1786; d. September 16, 1794.
X Samuel Bowie, b. July 9, 1788; m. Alethia Adair; d. January 1837.
XI Alexander Bowie, b. December 14, 1789; m. Susan B. Jack; d. December 30, 1865.
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