When Cacey Potter Bowen Sr. was born on 13 December 1830, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States, his father, Elias Bowen, was 21 and his mother, Cynthia Harrington, was 19. He married Eleanor Ellen McGarry on 25 July 1851, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He registered for military service in 1850. He died on 21 January 1902, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Deweyville Cemetery, Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
On May 27, 1850, a tornado came through Nauvoo and took the remaining outer walls of the temple. It was the most frightful thing the city had witnessed. Not just a tornado but also lightening, thunder, wind, hail and rain assailed the spot. Over time what was not destroyed by the storm crumbled until only a small amount was left.
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.
Possible Related NamesCacey Sr. is known in family history for driving the pioneer wagons of his family to Utah while still a teenager after the death on the plains of his father and for his service in the Indian wars of N …
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