Adam R. Bowen

Brief Life History of Adam R.

When Adam R. Bowen was born in 1829, in Hickman, Smith, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert Gillespie Bowen, was 41 and his mother, Mary Ruby Wilson, was 38. He lived in Hickman, Tennessee, United States in 1850.

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Family Time Line

Robert Gillespie Bowen
1789–1848
Mary Ruby Wilson
1791–1831
Eleanor Bowen
1810–1869
Polly Ann Bowen
1818–
Eleanor Bowen
1820–
Mahaley Bowen
–1839
Louisa Bowen
1814–1867
Rebecca Bowen
1824–
Robert Reece Bowen
1825–1849
Amanda J. Bowen
1826–
William Reece Bowen
1827–1889
Adam R. Bowen
1829–
Mary Jane Bowen
1831–1909

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  • Adam R Bowen in household of James O Lewis, "United States Census, 1850"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Owain ‘son of Owain’ (see Owen ), with fused patronymic marker (a)p, which is normally voiced before a vowel.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadhacháin ‘descendant of Buadhachán’, a diminutive of Buadhach ‘victorious’ (see Bohan ).

Irish: used to ‘translate’ Ó Cnáimhín ‘descendant of Cnáimhín’, a personal name meaning ‘little bone’ or ‘little body’, see Nevin 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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