Elias Bowman Cemetery
2014
Located South of the Old Stage Road between State Hwy. 81 and Leesburg. It is under an oak tree at the edge of a field to the left and behind the Ruritan Club (old Leesburg Elementary School) building. This cemetery has been cleared recently. Only two stones is standing. The rest are on the ground and the larger ones are broken. There were 3 graves marked by fieldstones and one unmarked child’s grave.
GPS Location: 36° 17.52N 082° 32.29W
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Bowman, David [No date] 08 Mar 1866 Aged 75y, 3m 18d
Bowman, Delana Ann 07 May 1871 26 Dec 1890 Dau. D.S. & M.L. Bowman
Bowman, Elias 30 Jan 1835 15 Aug 1857 Ag’d 22 years 6 mo 15 d’s
Bowman, Elias, Sr. [No date] 20 Aug 1829 Aged 83y, Father of the Rev. John Bowman who presented this stone.
Bowman, Mary L. 22 Jan 1847 02 Aug 1875 Aged 28y 6m 10d
Bowman, Samuel D. 18 Nov 1803 03 Aug 1845 [Stone is now broken and pieces are missing]
Bowman, Samuel D. 23 Mar 1837 06 Mar 1903
Bowman, Sarah 29 Aug 1791 13 Jun 1883 Wife of David Bowman
Bowman, Sarah Frances 07 Nov 1869 27 Nov 1890 Daughter of S. D. & M. L. Bowman
Cloyd, Minnia A. 03 Oct 1888 16 Jul 1890 Dau. J.M. & N.A. Cloyd
Murr, Anna E. A. 4 Sept 1863 23 Jul 1882 Ag'd 19yrs 10ms 12Ds
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 31 December 2003 by Chester Willis, Dawn Peters, Bob Shell, Donna Cox Briggs member of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2012 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
Additional information:
Washington County, Tennessee, Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene Filler Burgner.
P.159: Samuel D. Bowman – Mary L. Knight – md. 23 December 1868 – A.R. Bennic, M.G.
P.93: Samuel Murr – Harriet Bowman – md. 2 September 1852 – W. Reed.
Washington County, Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872 by Goldene Filler Burgner.
p. 45: Elizabeth Bowman, August 2, 1846
I bequeath to: David, Elias, George & John Bowman, Mary Calvert, Barbary McConnel & Elizabeth Simpson – each $1. To Maria Smith – all personal property and my real estate. Executor: John T. Smith. Wit.: Wiley Tucker, James Smith. Probated June term, 1847.
Signed: Elizabeth (X) Smith
Washington County, Tennessee Deeds, 1775-1800 by Loraine Rae.
p.160: p164-5 5/18/1795 James Carmichael to Elias Bowman; 118 acres on the south side of Big Limestone where Bowman now lives. CO’NS: 360-1/3 Spanish dollars. ADJ: Leeroy Taylor. SIG: James Carmichael. WIT: Robert Maghlen, William Montgomery. CT: May 1795.