John William Bowden Sr

Brief Life History of John William

When John William Bowden Sr was born in 1805, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Bowden Sr, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Wiggins, was 30. He married Cinthia Hickerson about 1829, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 11 October 1846, in DeSoto, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Independence, Tate, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

John William Bowden Sr
1805–1846
Cinthia Hickerson
1809–1856
Marriage: about 1829
Nancy Caroline Bowden
1830–1858
Thomas E Bowden
1843–1864
John William Bowden
1832–1907
Charles Wiggins Bowden
1835–1865
Sarah Ann Bowden
1837–1917
James Travis Bowden
1839–1909
Effa Jane Bowden
1840–1926
Lytle W. Bowden
1845–1921

Sources (4)

  • John Bowden, "United States Census, 1840"
  • John Bowden, "Find A Grave Index"
  • John W. Bowden, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1817

Mississippi is the 20th state.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England, the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin .

English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, from Middle English buve dun ‘above the hill’ (Old English būfan dūne, as in the placename Bowden, Wiltshire).

Scottish: habitational name from Bowden in Roxburghshire, named from Old English bōthl ‘dwelling-house’ + Old English denu ‘valley’.

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

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