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Submitted: 2/24/17 • Approved: 7/18/19 • Last Updated: 1/31/23 • R1177696-G0-S3
Cornelia
June 7, 1859 - August 21, 1934
Alonzo
October 6, 1855 - June 29, 1931
"Alonzo Madison Bowen, one of the leading planters of Bowen, Missouri Township, Pike County, was born near Lawrenceville, Georgia, October 6, 1855. His parents, John J and Mary L Cooper Bowen, natives of Georgia, had a family of six children - Lorenzo A, Dilmus L, Columbus L, Alonzo M, Jefferson D and Nancy C. His father was engaged in tilling the soil in Georgia until 1856, when he emigrated to Arkansas, locating in Pike County, where he made his home until his death in 1862. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and took a deep interest in the welfare of society generally. He participated in the late war, serving under Capt Spear. Both he and wife were members of the Baptist Church, she died in Texas in 1863. The subject of this short sketch was reared in Clark County, receiving his education at the private schools, and at the age of sixteen began doing for himself by hiring out as a farm laborer. He also made three trips to Texas. August 12, 1879, he was married to Miss Cornelia A Hewitt, a native of Clark County, Arkansas, and to this union have been born five children, Callie R, Enos L, Darthie D, John F, Quincy A. Mr. Bowen owns ninety-six acres of good land, fifty acres under an excellent state of cultivation; his farm is well stocked. He is a member of the Wheel, and has held the office of clerk and sentinel of the same. Both he and wife are worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and take an earnest interest in the welfare of the community in which they reside.
" Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas - Goodspeed Publishing Company - Chicago, Nashville and St Louis - 1890)
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