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- Note from Find a Grave
h/o Susannah Abbott Painter md 19 Mar 1764 Harrisonburg, Rockingham Co., Virginia, He was in the Revolutionary War.
-- Written by Owsley County historian Arch B. Bowman--
The Cornelius Bowman, Sr. family began migration from Kings Branch, Muddy Creek, Madison Co., Ky. to the South Fork of the Kentucky River, as close neighbors to the James Moore, Sr. family, in 1795 just after the Moores arrived on the South Fork. Cornelius Bowman, Sr.'s son & wife, John & Sarah Smith Bowman, were the first to leave Tennessee for Muddy Creek occurring on the Madison Co., Ky. tax list in 1794 & the first to arrive on the South Fork in 1795. All the Cornelius, Sr. family migrated from Tennessee except William. Cornelius, Sr. & Cornelius, Jr. were the last of the Bowmans to leave Muddy Creek in 1812 for the South Fork, where they remained to death.
Kevin Avery sent this to me on 12 Mar 2019
RE: Cornelius Bowman
I believe his parents are Peter Bowman & Margaret (Scholl) Bowman.....
I found this online.....
We know that Peter Bowman is the father of Cornelius because of a note written by family members in 1901. In that note, it states that "Aunt Sythe" (my gg-grandmother Siretha Seburn) had sent a record, apparently written in her mother's hand (in other words, written by Sarah Bowman Gabbard, b. 1798), outlining family relationships. According to the note, which is in the possession of David Travillion Bunton of Russellville, Arkansas (& is shown in the Cornelius Bowman book recently written by Edward Bowman): "Grandfather Cornelus Bowman Neal - Grandfather Neal Bowman was son of Peter Bowman & Margaret Bowman. Grandma Bowman married a Van Peldt" ... "Written by Sally Gabbard for ???? Aunt Sythe sent record to ???? ???? their mother's hand." In another place, the note states: "Grandma Elizabeth Gentry Gabbard was born Apr. the 23rd Day 1833. Edward Gabbard & Sarah Bowman her parents." [The note is displayed on page D 30 of Ed Bowman's book, "Cornelius Bowman, A Founding Father of America & some of His Ancestors & Descendants".]
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 April 2019), memorial page for Cornelius "Neal" Bowman, Sr (1740-5 Jan 1826), Find A Grave Memorial no. 98019533, citing Bowman Family Cemetery, Owsley County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Audrey Russell (contributor 47084393) .
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text from Ancestry famiy tree
CORNELIUS BOWMAN SR., HIS PROBABLE ORIGIN
The national archives files on Cornelius Bowman file (compiled by Walker Hume Bowman and apparently others) promote the now widely held view that Cornelius Bowman Sr. was b. 1740 in the Shenandoah Valley of VA. The date of birth comes from the family Bible of Cornelius' son, Rev. Thomas Bowman, but the Bible record lists no birthplace. Most subsequent studies have accepted Mr. Bowman's belief that Cornelius Sr. was married to Susannah Abbott, called "Betsy."
Whereas deeds exist recording her name as Susannah and independent family traditions that say she was called "Betsy", there is no primary documentation to support the Abbott surname. Neither is there evidence that she was born in Wilkes Co., NC, as is sometimes claimed.
Thanks to research by Edward Lee Bowman, we are beginning to get a clearer view of Cornelius' origins. The Harrisonburg-Rockingham (VA) Historical Society has records that formed that basis of a book by Richard K. MacMaster called _The Session Book of Peaked Mountain And Cook's Creek Presybterian Churches_ that contains the following marriage entry. McMaster records the marriage as follows:
Married in 1764 March 19th
Cornelius Boman
Susanna Painter
The Peaked Mountain Presbyterian meeting house is believed to have been located about seven miles south of Harrisonburg, Rockingham Co., VA. The original Session books are in the possession of the Presbyterian and Reformed Historical Foundation, Montreat, N.C., and the first Presbyterian Church of Harrisonburg, VA, has a microfilmed copy. I have carefully analyzed a photocopy of the original record using the writer's own handwriting style as seen in other entries as an interpretive and comparative tool. My analysis reveals that bride's name was originally penned as "Eliz.th" (superscripted "th") Pointer (not Painter), but subsequently "Susana" was heavily inked over the Eliz.th. This strongly suggests she bore both the name Susannah as well as Elizabeth, and it explains why her name appears as Susannah in documents, though she was often called "Betsy" by the family.
As noted, the handwritten record suggests Susana/Elizabeth's surname was Pointer, not Painter. The writer consistently formed his "a's" with slightly open tops and a strong right-hand descender, whereas his "o's" have closed tops and a weak descender. Although she may indeed been a Painter, it is clear to me that her surname was recorded as Pointer.
The date of the marriage is in agreement with the estimated dates of birth of Cornelius and Susannah's eldest sons, John and William (b. ca. 1760/65) and fit Cornelius' date of birth of 1740 from the Thomas Bowman Bible. That would provide Cornelius with a believable age of about 24 at his marriage to Susannah. It also fits well with Susannah's estimated date of birth (ca. 1745), but points to her place of birth as possibly Augusta Co., VA, instead of the oft-quoted "Wilkes Co., NC". The Rockingham County location of the marriage (Rockingham County formed 1778 from Augusta County, VA) lies in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, and therefore consistent with Walker Hume Bowman's view that Cornelius Bowman was born in the same region.
On balance, there are simply too many factors that fit well together. Therefore, I believe we must accept the Rockingham county marriage record as that of our Cornelius and Susannah. This suggests that each was probably born to an Augusta (Rockingham) County, VA, family. Incomplete transcripts of Virginia state enumerations 1782-1785 for Rockingham County list households of a Leonard Painter, George Painter, Christly Painter, but no Pointers. Living near Christly Painter are several Bowmans, including John Bowman, Benjamin Bowman, Jacob Bowman Jr. There is also a Joseph Bowman. Also living in that county is Andrew Byrd Sr., Andrew Byrd Jr. and John "Shever" (Sevier). These names remind us of the court records of Augusta County, VA, cited by Chalkley and discussed in Ed Bowman's work.
As far as I know, the several Bowman clans living in Augusta County at that time were either German/Swiss or Dutch. The Painters were also German, the name having been derived from Bender. It should be noted that "Bender" pronounced by a native German sounds remarkably like "Painter." Although my own grandfather, Rev. William Albert Bowman (of Owsley Co., KY) believed that his Bowman ancestors were Irish, I doubt that he was correct.
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text from Ancestry family tree
Note from Tom Ashworth, researcher and descendant:
We know that Peter Bowman is the father of Cornelius because of a note
written by family members in 1901. In that note, it states that "Aunt
Sythe" (my gg-grandmother Siretha Seburn) had sent a record,
apparently written in her mother's hand (in other words, written by
Sarah Bowman Gabbard, b. 1798), outlining family relationships.
According to the note, which is in the possession of David Travillion
Bunton of Russellville, Arkansas (and is shown in the Cornelius Bowman
book recently written by Edward Bowman): "Grandfather Cornelus Bowman
Neal - Grandfather Neal Bowman was son of Peter Bowman and Margaret
Bowman. Grandma Bowman married a Van Peldt" ... "Written by Sally
Gabbard for ???? Aunt Sythe sent record to ???? ???? their
mother's hand." In another place, the note states: "Grandma
Elizabeth Gentry Gabbard was bornd April the 23rd Day 1833. Edward
Gabbard & Sarah Bowman her parents." [The note is displayed on page D
30 of Ed Bowman's book, "Cornelius Bowman, A Founding Father of
America and some of His Ancestors and Descendants".]
Two records of the general time of Peter's death place Cornelius in
the same general area where Peter lived: (1) a record from the Peaked
Mountain Church shows Cornelius "Boman" marrying Susannah Pointer on
March 19th, 1764; and (2) the April 16, 1767, record of the court
martial of Cornelius for missing militia meetings. Again, the first
record mentiond apparently gives the name of Cornelius' wife -
Susannah Pointer. All of this is well documented in the Ed Bowman
book.
Madison Co KY Court Orders Book B: 1 Dec 1795: Deed from Robert
Flemin & Mary his wife to Cornelius Bowman proved by Edward Jones &
Daniel Lee & ordered certified.
4 May 1796: Same deed proved by Rebekah Lee & ordered recorded. Also
appointed commissioners to determine boundary of a 2000 acres entry on
Muddy Creek - Cornelius Bowman was one of the commissioners.
3 Dec 1799 Cornelius Bowman granted a certificate to obtain letters
of administration on the estate of John Bowman, dec'd, whereupon he
entered into bond with Elisha Bowman and Cornelius Bowman. [John may
be his father since his son John lived some longer than this; Elisha
and Cornelius two of his sons.]
1810 Madison Co KY Census: Cornelius Bowman: 1m +45, 1f +45.
Cornelius Jr. also in this Census.
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Cornelius Bowman and his family meandered to Muddy Creek in Estill County around 1790. It was his boys who followed James Moore's daughters to South Fork County. After Neal's wife, Susannah died and he was getting on in years, he was persuaded to come to Owsley County with his sons. The story goes that he grieved so over the loss of his wife that he almost lost his mind. The sons went back to Muddy Creek, dug up the remains of their mother and moved her back to Owsley County (it was still Clay County then.) Her body was taken by pack-horse to old Neal's cabin where he requested her remains be laid on his bed. That night he crawled into bed beside her coffin to sleep. The next day she was buried on a nearby hill. Old Neal soon joined his beloved Susannah when he was laid to rest by her side.
The elderly Bowmans, their son, Cornelius, Jr. and his wife Betty Moore Bowman, are all buried near the residence of Willard Campbell. The mouth of the branch where widow Betty Bowman lived many years after the death of her husband still bears her name. (Source: "This Was Yesterday, A Romantic History of Owsley County", by Joyce Wilson.)
[Br?derbund WFT Vol. 14, Ed. 1, Tree #0331, Date of Import: Feb 16, 1999]
Scotch Lineage
1795 - Madison Co KY = Ellison
1813 - S. Fork = Booneville
NC - lived on Roan Creek now under Watauga lake
Wilkes Co, NC would be August or Shenandoah Co, VA
Reverend
1781 Tax Assessor Collector in Washington Co, Roan Creek
1790-92 Tenn
[Br?derbund WFT Vol. 9, Ed. 1, Tree #0371, Date of Import: Mar 6, 1999]
Cornelius Bowman obtained land in 1778 on Buffalo Creek and Upper Yadkin: (Land Entries in Wilkes County, NC, beginning March 4, 1778, by J.J. Hayes.)
"No. 56, 18 April 1778, . . . 200 acres on W. side of the Yadkin above mouth of Buffalow begg. . . including the impt Mr. Cornelius Bowman. . . . ".
Cornelius Bowman was appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace for County of Washington, North Carolina, May 10, 1791.
Cornelius Bowman was a Methodist Preacher.
Cornelius Bowman (1740-1826) migrated with his family from Senandoah Valley, Virginia, through the Carolinas; was in the Watauga Settlement, Washington County, North Carolina, for a while; then back to Virginia for a short time, before finally migrating to and settling in, Madison County, Kentucky.
The only child of Cornelius to remain in Tennessee was William E. Bowman (1768-1840).
Compiled from notes in the Rogers family history books.
If correct, our Susannah was a Pointer, not an Abbott. Although Painter/Pointer seems at first to be an English surname, researchers of the Painter/Pointer family of the Shenandoah Valley say they were German -- "Painter/Pointer" was anglicized from the German "Bender". Supposedly, the Painter/Bender family was descended from Matthaus Bender b. 1677 Mannheim, Palatinate, Germany, d. 1744 New Hanover Twp., York Co., PA; he m. Anna (Mary) Catharina b. 1681 Palatinate, d. 1764 New Hanover Twp, York Co., PA. You can find more by checking out the Painter Family GenForum.
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