Andrew BOWERS (Jr.) (1791-1849)

Katherine HOWETH (1800-1841)

Thomas MAJORS (1810/1811-After 1884)

Phebe LEFFEW (1811/1815-1870/1871)

John BOWERS (1837-1884)

Mary MAJORS (Abt 1839-Abt 1872)

Nancy Helon BOWERS (1869-)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Maude SHARP Floyd SHARP Claud SHARP 2. John ESTES Velma Eudoxia ESTES Nancy Helon BOWERS 2 3 Born: 18 Dec 1869, Grainger County, Tennessee 4 5 Marriage (1): Maude SHARP Marriage (2): John ESTES on 23 Aug 1898 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory 1   Noted events in her life were: 1. Census: 1870, Grainger County, Tennessee. 6 Household of John Bowers: Bowers, Helon, 1, M(?), W, TN Nancy married Maude SHARP. Nancy next married John ESTES on 23 Aug 1898 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.7 (John ESTES was born about 1872 7 and died about 1951 in California 7.)   Marriage Notes: Although not of this marriage, note that Claude and Floyd Sharp went by the name Estes. 7

1 Ruth McLellan, Choctaw McAlvain Genealogy, Ruthies Genealogical Realm, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/2765. Ruthie King is a 2nd Great Grandaughter of Polk McAlvain and Louisa Matilda Bowers (Curtis Alton Pugh, Lois Lucille McAlvain, Thomas Jay McAlvain, Polk McAlvain).

2 Family Records of George G. Johnston. George G. Johnston, son of George Goold Johnston and Ola Pearl Bowers, belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Motivated by love of family and the teachings of their church, George, who passed away in 2005, and his wife, Lela, who passed away in 2001, spent much of their life together researching their families. This included not only research at the Family History Libraries in Mesa, AZ and Salt Lake City, UT, but also genealogy trips to interview other Bowers and Anderson descendants and to find the burial places of our Bowers and Anderson ancestors, as well as extensive correspondence with other descendants. George and Lela not only researched the past, but also kept up with the marriages, births and deaths of the current descendants of John DeWitt Bowers and Tilitha Ann Anderson. Our family is indebted to them.

3 "Daybook of Polk McAlvain." Polk McAlvain was Louisa Matilda Bowers' Choctaw husband. The original daybook passed from Florence Thomas nee McAlvain, daughter of Polk and Louisa, to her daughter, Lucille Blackard nee Thomas, in 1990. George G. Johnston has viewed the daybook and taken notes and photographs of it. The author has a copy of his notes.

4 Family Records of George G. Johnston.

5 "Daybook of Polk McAlvain."

6 1870 Census, Grainger County, Tennessee, FHL Film No. 553,029, Page 132 (12th District, Clear Spring P. O., Dwelling 13, Family 13).

7 Ruth McLellan, Choctaw McAlvain Genealogy, Ruthies Genealogical Realm, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/2765.