C. E. Bowers, a merchant of Henning, Tenn., is the son of James and Dicy M.
(Moore) Bowers. The father was born in Virginia, May 10, 1804, the mother in
Newbern District, S.C., June 7, 1811. They came to Tennessee while young, and
were married February 22, 1837. To this union were born four sons and four
daughters; six are now living. The father was a Missionary Baptist and a
Democrat; he died May 24, 1869. His mother was a member of the Christian
Church, and died February 27, 1879. Our subject was of Scotch-Irish descent on
the mother’s side and German on the father’s side, and was born at
Brownsville, Tenn., May 3, 1840. He had good educational advantages. When the
war broke out, he volunteered in the ninth Mississippi Regiment Infantry
Volunteers, Confederate Army, it being the first regiment to leave the State,
and he was in numerous battles, remaining until the surrender. After the war
he returned to Panola County, Miss., where he was married January 18, 1870, to
Miss Ann E. Cathey, who was born February 5, 1844, in Mecklenburg County, N.C.
Two sons and four daughters were born to this marriage; one son, Charles E.
and three daughters, Emma M., Jessie J. and Evalina are living. Mr. And Mrs.
Bowers moved to Lauderdale County in 1876, and the following year moved to
Henning, Tenn., where he engaged in the drug business; he is now a salesman in
the store of Wilson & Bowers. In politics he is a straight-out Prohibitionist.
He was postmaster during the yellow-fever epidemic in 1878 to 1880, and is a
Mason and a Knight of Honor. Both his wife and himself belonged to the
Christian Church. Mrs. Bowers died October 24, 1883. Mr. Bowers is a man of
integrity and kind heart.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN