Re: Luke Townley & Rebecca JONES Townley
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Re: Luke Townley & Rebecca JONES Townley
Joe Sissom 6/13/05
My grandmother was Margaret Bowman, ggranddaughter of Luke and Rebecca via Harrison Bowman. I have read Dicey Bowman's work and she primarily researched the Dowling Bowman line and the other children of James Bowman who settled near Wawbeek, Alabama. I call them Escambia River Bowmans. Harrison and the rest of Reuben's children moved to the Perdido River basin during the Cival War. Dowling died in 1858 only 5 years after his father and the widow remarried
John Gunter. The young Bowman children were sort of isolated from their grandmother and cousins after the war.
My grandfather along with the Fillingams and Applegates, all married into Reuben and Mary Bowman's family and bought into the old tale of Luke Townley being an heir to an
English fortune. There was quite a bit of research in the 1920's trying to document one's kinship to Luke Townley.
I went to the National Archives several years ago and pulled Luke's war record. It had been signed out in 1927 by Robert Fillingam before the records came into the NARA.
So my sources are family lore, census, NARA, Dicey Bowman and others.
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Re: Luke Townley & Rebecca JONES Townley
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Re: Luke Townley & Rebecca JONES Townley