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146. THOMAS (GEN) FIELDER⁶ BOWIE (THOMAS CONTEE⁵, FIELDER CAPT⁴, ALLEN³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Apr 07, 1808, and died Oct 31, 1869. He married (1) CATHERINE HARRISON WARING Nov 11, 1830. He married (2) VIRGINIA GRIFFITH.

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Notes for CATHERINE HARRISON WARING:
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Notes for VIRGINIA GRIFFITH:
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Children of THOMAS BOWIE and CATHERINE WARING are:

HENRY I WARING⁷ BOWIE, b. Sep 02, 1832.

Notes for HENRY I WARING BOWIE:
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HENRY II WARING BOWIE, b. May 06, 1834.

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THOMAS WARING BOWIE, b. May 06, 1834.

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THOMAS (MAJ) FIELDER WARING BOWIE, b. May 14, 1836; d. Dec 13, 1896; m. ELIZABETH MARGARET WORTHINGTON¹⁷, Dec 16, 1856.

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Notes for ELIZABETH MARGARET WORTHINGTON:
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269.	v.		SARAH LOUISE BOWIE, b. Apr 17, 1838.
	vi.		HENRY CONTEE BOWIE, b. May 18, 1840; d. Oct 24, 1864.

Notes for HENRY CONTEE BOWIE:
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Educated for the bar, but entered the Confederate army inl86l , and servedin dement's /Battery, Maryland Line. He won a reputation for such coolness and bravery in the face of danger that his comreades still speak ofhim as one of the most superb soldiers of that gallant army. Manyancedotes are related of his courage. On one occasion, during a desperate artillery engagement, a shwll with a buring use fill in the battery. The gunners threw thmnselves upon the ground to secape, if possible, the dealy expolosion while "Hal" Bowie stepping quickly to the smoking missile, picked it up and walking to the edge of the embankment cast it far from him. The expolosin resulted harmlessley. He contracted a fever in the trenches, which ended his life ina Richomnd hospital Oct 24,l864, and he lies with hundred of other "boys in Gray" in a Richomond Cemetery.
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270.	vii.		MARY MACKALL BOWIE, b. Aug 22, 1841; d. WFT Est. 1882-1936.
	viii.		ELLEN WARING BOWIE, b. Jul 12, 1843.

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271.

ix.

EDITH PLANTAGNET BOWIE, b. Jul 12, 1845.

Child of THOMAS BOWIE and VIRGINIA GRIFFITH is:

ALEXANDER⁷ BOWIE, b. 1857.

147. ALLEN (DR.) THOMAS⁶ BOWIE (THOMAS CONTEE⁵, FIELDER CAPT⁴, ALLEN³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Aug 24, 1813 in Essington Prince Georeg County, Maryland, and died Sep 12, 1872. He married MATILDA JANE ROUTH Apr 14, 1838.

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At the personal request o Bishop Chase, of Ohio, he was sent to Kenyon College, Gambier County, Ohio. He left Keyon ere graduation, and the studied medicine at Batlimore Mayland Medical College, where he received his diploma in l836, and in the same year went to Nathrz Mississippi. He practiced his profession a hort time at Port Gibson Mississippi. After his marriage Dr. Bowie moved to Louisiana, abandoned the practice of medicine and engaged laregly in cotton-planting. Her acquired a manificent estate known as "The Franklin and Glen Allen" plantations, lying along two sides of the lovely shores of Lake St. Joseph, in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. On the "franklin plantation, opposite "Glen Allen" he built his hoem wchich was one of themost splendid private residences in the South. This palatial building contained upward of twenty rooms, large halls, and wide galleries. It was furnished with exquisite taste and luxury. Sloping to the warters of the lake (seen across the public road that wound around its curved shores) stretche a spacious lawn; deer raomed beneath the forest trees in an adjacent park; numverous parterres of rare flowers, diversified a scene whose natural beauty needed little to enhance it. Within the bulding was a carefully slected library, and the walls were hung iwth rare paintings and costly mirrors. In the music room were a variety of fine instruments; a billiard room; pleasure boats on the aprakling waters of the lake, and blooded horses in the stables, broken to the saddle or harness, were among the pleasures Dr. Bowie provided for the entertaiment of his friends and family. Climate, locality, tast, and wealth, convined in creating an earthly paradis, which, not withstanding or beacuse of its charms, was doomed in a few years to destruction by the torch of an invading army. Dr. Bowie was like most gentlemen of the South, fond of politics; a ready and forcible speaker, his addresses, generally inpromptu, abounded with grace and wit. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was opposed to secession, and bitterly denounced such action in a letter addressed to a mass meeeing held in hi State, Declaring, "Ratherthan disunion, I would vote to elevate my Nogor coachman to the Presidency. I am a Unin man; I love the North, I love the East, The West, The South; the whole Union. I go for the Union first, last, and forever, against the combined plots and machinations of evbery people on earth. " When war was however declared, being a "State Right's man," his lot and his fortune were cast with Louisiana when she seceded, and his three sons entered the Coonfederate Army. His home burned, his princely fortune lost, he returned to Natchez and became identified with every public owrk, whether political or charitable. The followieng is an extract fromthe first volumne of the Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, descriptive of "Frankline and its fall: "along the bayou or Lake St. Joseph, were many ver fine cotton plntations, and I especially recall that of a Mr. Bowie, borther-in-law to the Hon. Reverdy Johnson of Baltimore. The House was very handsome, with a fine and extensive plot in fornt *** We dismounted and walked into the house. On thefront proch I found a magnificent grand piano, with some satin-covedred armcharis, in one of which sat a Union soldier (one of McPherson's men) with his muddy feet on the ivory keys of the piano, his musket and knapsack lying on the porch. I asked him what he was doing there. He answered, Taking a res. This was manifest, and I started him in a hurry to overtake his command. The house was tenantless and had been ransaced; article of dress, books, etc. were strewn about. A handsome boudoir cabinet, with mirro front, had been thrown down, striking a French bedstead, shivering the glass. The Library was extensive, containing a fine collection of books, and hanging on the walls were tow full-length portraits of Reverdy Johnson and his wife; the latter (one of the most beautiful ladiesof ou county) I had been acquained with in Washington at the time of General Taylors administration. Behind the house was the usual double row of cabins called "Quarters" . Ther I found an old Negro (a family servant), with several women, who I sent to the house to put things in order; telling the old man that other troops would follow, and he must stand on the proch and tell any officer who came along that the property belonged to Mr. Bowie, who was a brother-in-lw of our friend Reverdy Johnson of Baltimore, and ask them to see that no further harm was done. Soon after we left I saw some Negores conveying away furniture which manifestly belonged to the hosue, and compelled them tocarry it back. After reaching camp at "Hard times" that night I sent a wagon to the Bowie plantation to bring up to Dr. Hollingsworth's house the two protraits fro safe keeping, but befor the wagon had reached it the house was burned, whether by some of our men or by Negroes I have never learnd." With this account of General Sherman's contrast an extract from a speech of Gen. James M. Tuttle, of Iowa made at DesMoines during the Hayes and Wheelercampaign;"Some one on the lower mississipi writesto a St. Louis paper wondering if I am the General Tuttle whose troops onthe march from Millikin's Bend to Grand Gulf burned so many fine houses on Lake St. Joseph-among them the finest resdien in all the Southern country, that of Dr. Bowie. I am the man! The Bowie mansion was the finest and grandest house I ever saw or read about.l Th house and furniture were said to have cost five hundred thousand dollars. The upholstering was grand,, beyond all description. I found a number of Union Soldiers in the house lounging around in their muddy boots enjoying the luxures. After about half of my division has passed and I was bout two ro three miles sway I looked back, attracted by an immense blaze, and the Bowie house was gone. I suppose we could have prevented their burning it if we had made ti a specially! I expect, too, that it was burned by some of my own boys! In fact, I do not doubt that it was !" The Negores resuced some of the portraits, hid them in a pultry house, and they were afterwards restored to the family. Mrs. Johnson's which was a full-length, coped from the orignal by Sully, was cut in two and the upper half taken away by one of the soldiers, but it was recovered after the war and retuned through a friend to Dr. Bowie, it having been recognized, and a Union staff officer who had the pircute upon hearing who owned it, returned it to its proprietor with a polite note. The portrait of Dr. Bowie's mother Mrs. Polly Bowie, was defaced by bayonet thursts-oneunder the eye can be easily seen in the photographic copy. This portrait was painted by Peel. Much of the family plate was saved by being palced in casks, and, upon the approach of the Union troops, sunken in the waters of a wll at Alexandria, Louisisana, where it was taken, and later removed to Texas. The portraits of the family that were rescued are now in the possession of Capt. Allen T. Bowie of Natchez, a son of the Doctor. The latter years of Dr. Bowie were passedin Natchez, He was presiden ofthe Reading and Social Exchange Club, a member of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Natchez, and a vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church. He death occurred Sept. 12,l872, and he is buried at Natchez. All the leading papers of Natchez and St. Joseph published atricles at the time of his deah deploring hisloss and eulogizing his character. The various clubs andassociations of which he was a member, assembled and passed resolutions of commendation and regret. His wife, MRs.Matilda Jane Bowie survived him uinitl Mar. 7 l882 whe she was laid to rest by his side.

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Notes for MATILDA JANE ROUTH:
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She was the daughter of John Routh and his wife Anne Smith Routh

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Children of ALLEN BOWIE and MATILDA ROUTH are:

272.	i.		THOMAS CONTEEJR⁷ BOWIE, b. Oct 14, 1841; d. Apr 01, 1880.
	ii.		ANNE ROUTH BOWIE, b. Feb 27, 1843; d. Oct 10, 1871.

Notes for ANNE ROUTH BOWIE:
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she die at natches of yellow fever oct l0,l87l. The Natchez Courier when announcing her death said "Highly educated, difgnified in deportment, and blessed with many accomplishments, she won love and respect wherever she moved."

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273.	iii.		ALLEN THOMAS JR. BOWIE, b. Aug 17, 1840.
274.	iv.		JOHN ROUTH BOWIE, b. Apr 14, 1839.

148. MATILDA ELIZABETH⁶ BOWIE (THOMAS CONTEE⁵, FIELDER CAPT⁴, ALLEN³, JOHN SR.², JOHNE¹ BOWY) was born Mar 10, 1807, and died Jul 29, 1871. She married WILLIAM SAUNDERS GREEN Sep 22, 1832.

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Children of MATILDA BOWIE and WILLIAM GREEN are:

275.	i.	MARY MACKALL BOWIE⁷ GREEN, b. Feb 01, 1834; d. Sep 1868.
276.	ii.	ALICE BOWIE GREEN, b. May 10, 1839; d. Nov 27, 1870.
277.	iii.	FANNIE NCIHOLAS GREEN, b. Mar 14, 1841; d. May 28, 1881.
278.	iv.	GORDON WINSLOW GREEN, b. Feb 06, 1844; d. 1908.

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