When Reese Bayles Bowers was born about 1825, in Siam, Carter, Tennessee, United States, his father, Valentine B Bowers, was 37 and his mother, Abigail G Buck, was 32. He married Mary Polly Johnson on 31 March 1845, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Blue Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Haw Creek Township, Morgan, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died in September 1863, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee, United States.