Friday, 20 August 2010

The Bowers Sisters

Below is a photograph I recently received from a descendant of Nancy Helon Bowers, sister to Louisa Matilda Bowers McAlvain.

After reviewing the birth dates of these sisters and their children and comparing them to dates of migration, I believe them to be the following individuals.

Back row - L-R: 

Nancy Helon Bowers
Born: 18 December 1860, Grainger Co., Tennessee
Married: ca 1886-1887 to Maud Sharp
Married 2nd: 23 August 1898, Leflore Co., Oklahoma to John T. Estes.
Children: Floyd Burton Sharp (1888-1935), Claude Sharp (1892-?), Velma Eudoxia Estes (1910-1986)
Died: 1946, California

Susan Adaline Bowers
Born: 13 October 1859, Grainger Co, Tennessee
Married: ca 1876, Fulton Co., Arkansas, Simpson Sloan.
Married 2nd:  ca 1892, Louis Andrew Campbell
Children: Helen Arizona Sloan (1880-1954), Charles Murphy Sloan (1885-1958), Bessie Lela Campbell (1893-?), Nellie Edna Campbell (1900-1973).
Died: 3 February 1926, Superior, Pinal Co., Arizona

I believe the infant that Susan Adaline is holding was the above named Charles Murphy Sloan.

Louisa Matilda Bowers
Born: 17 June 1863, Grainger Co., Tennessee
Married: 1881 Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Albert Choate. 
Married 2nd:  12 July 1886, Sugar Loaf Co., Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Polk McAlvain
For Children see the entry regarding Polk McAlvain below.
Died: 25 December 1918, McAlester, Pittsburg Co., Oklahoma

Front Row - L-R:

I believe the first little girl to be Helen Arizona Sloan, the baby is possibly Floyd Burton Sharp, and the little boy I believe to be John Walter McAlvain.

2 comments:

  1. I am the great granddaughter of Nellie Edna Campbell. Nellie Married Darrell Herron and they had five daughters: Rita Mae, Bessie, Ruby, Dorothy, and Billy. My grandmother Dorothy married Ted Campbell and had one daughter: Carolyn. Dorothy remarried childhood sweetheart Albert Twain Johnson and had three more children: Thomas, Linda, and Jonathan. My mother Carolyn had six children: Tammy (me), Kimberly, Luke, Joshua, Jennifer, and Jessica.
    I have four sons of my own: Joseph (out of wedlock child), I married Robert Craig: Alexander, and Zachary. Second marriage to Joesph Pennington: Brandon

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  2. Hi Tammy and thank you for posting! Nice to meet a cousin!! =)) Sorry for the delay in responding - had some trouble accessing my blogger account but that seems to be cleared up now. I hope to be posting more about the family as I am able to do so. We certainly have an interesting ancestry. =D

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