Katherine HOWETH ⁵

Born: 14 Aug 1800, Grainger County, Tennessee ⁵
Marriage: Andrew BOWERS (Jr.) on 29 Aug 1816 in Grainger County, Tennessee ¹ ² ³ ⁴
Died: 30 Aug 1841, Grainger County, Tennessee ⁶ ⁷

bullet Research Notes:

Katherine Howeth is presumed to be a daughter of William and Mary Howeth, because they were the only Howeths living in Grainger Co. at the time of her birth.

bullet Noted events in her life were:

1. Census: 1810, Grainger County, Tennessee. ⁸

Household of Mary Howeth: 21000-31010
Katherine was presumably the female child, age 10-16

2. Census: 1830, Grainger County, Tennessee. ⁹

Household of Andrew Bowers: 110001-212001
Katherine would have been the female, age 30-40

3. Census: 1840, Grainger County, Tennessee. ¹⁰

Household of Andrew Bowers: 3101001-0221001
Katherine would have been the female, age 40-50.

Katherine married Andrew BOWERS (Jr.), son of Andrew BOWER (Sr.) and Catherine, on 29 Aug 1816 in Grainger County, Tennessee.² ³ ⁴ ⁵ (Andrew BOWERS (Jr.) was born on 6 Nov 1791 in probably Rockbridge County, Virginia ⁵ ¹¹ and died on 21 Nov 1849 in Grainger County, Tennessee ⁷ ¹².)

bullet Marriage Notes:

Kennerly has: "Bowen, Andrew [to] Catherine Hawith, August 26, 1816. B. Eli Clark, August 26, 1816. John Hall, J.P." Fennell & Mason records the marriage the same way. The author has xerographic copies of the official records and there is no difficulty in reading the names as Andrew Bowers and Catherine Howeth. The August 26, 1816 date is actually the date of the license and bond. John Hall wrote on the license, "I certify I married the within named on the 29th Augt 1816." This latter date is confirmed by the Andrew Bowers Family Bible.

1 Andrew Bowers Family Bible. The whereabouts or even continued existence of the Andrew Bowers Family Bible is unknown. However, there are two known transcriptions of the family information contained in the bible: first, a 1978 transcription by Ruth Bowers Dommestrup, at which time the bible was in the possession of Rector Bowers (William Rosecrans Bowers, Thomas Bowers, Andrew Bowers); and second, a transcription of unknown date and authorship that was obtained from collateral Howeth descendants and which contains the following note at the bottom of the transcription, "this is copied from the old record. the only one any of us knows of anywhere. this record is very fraile and looks to be written with pokeberry ink." The transcriptions are nearly identical, but do have differences: Ruth's has Grainger Co., TN as the place of marriage for Andrew and Katharine, while the Howeth version has nothing in that respect; Ruth's has daughter Katharine being born 6 Apr 1827, while the Howeth version spells her name Kathrine and has her date of birth as 16 Apr 1827; and Ruth's has son Andrew being born 9 Jun 1829, while the Howeth version adds his middle initial "J." and has the date of birth as 19 Jun 1829. Neither transcription provides places of birth nor dates of death. The dates for which this source is cited are from Ruth's transcription.

2 Billie Wyrick Kennerly, Tennessee Grainger County Marriage Bonds and Licenses, 1796-1837, Book No. 1 (Houston, Texas; Herb Fisher Company; 1964), Page 12.

3 Mrs. Gladys Fennell & Mrs. Olivia Mason, Compilers, Marriage Records, Grainger County, Tennessee, 1796-1837, (The Historical Records Survey, June 19, 1939), FHL Film No. 024,658, Page 71.

4 Grainger County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, Marriage License and Bond for Andrew Bowers and Catherine Howeth. The author is in possession of xerographic copies of the official records, which were copied for the author in 2000 by Mickey Morris of M & D Genealogy.

6 Family Records of Ken Fiebelman. Ken Fiebelman is a descendant of Andrew and Katherine (Howeth) Bowers as follows: Lawrence Fiebelman, Letie Sellers, William Sellers, Catherine Bowers, Andrew and Katherine (Howeth) Bowers. His home address is 1202 Gertrude St., Salem, MO 65560. He can also be reached at Ken Fiebelman's Antiques, Ozark Museum & Information Center on State Highway 19 South in Salem, MO (tel: 573-729-5707). Ken is a recognized authority on the history of the Central Missouri Ozarks, a vocation he began when he was about 10 years old when he became the caretaker for the Rocky Ford Cemetery located on the Fiebelman farm. As a teenager, he assisted a local Salem historian in gathering cemetery data, which further sparked his interest in local history. He was elected as the first president of the Dent County Historical Society in 1966. In 1991, he was awarded the Award of Merit by the Missouri State Genealogy Society. As President of the Dent County Historical Society, he directed and produced the three volume Ozark Heritage series of Dent County Histories, published by the Dent County Historical Society (Vol. 1, 1978; Vol 2., 1980 and Vol. 3, 1994). He also assisted in the preparation of the history of Crawford County, Missouri, published by the Crawford County History Book Committee in 1987. Considerable information on our Bowers, including but not limited to the information for which this source is cited, is included in these books. I've included source citations for the books, if the volume and page number were known to me. Contact Ken for the current availability of these books. One of the sources of Bowers family information for Ken's work has been the Wiley and Mary (Bowers) Dyer Family Bible, which is in his possession. It had previously been in the possession of Nick Dyer, a son of Wiley and Mary. Ken obtained the bible from Nick's last wife's family. Besides the information it contains on Wiley and Mary's family, it is also the source for the death dates of Andrew and Katherine (Howeth) Bowers. Ken has provided the author with xerographic copies of the family pages from this bible.

7 Dent County Historical Society, Ozark Heritage - Dent County Families & Cemeteries, Vol III (1994), Page 104.

8 1810 Census, Grainger County, Tennessee, Lookup by Bennie L. Loftin <bloftin@oio.net (e-mail dated 18 Nov 1999).

11 Personal Property Tax List, 1781-1810, Rockbridge County, Virginia, FHL Film No. 1,905,708.

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