{"id":3142,"date":"2022-01-10T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:27:25","slug":"bowers-g-m-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bowers-g-m-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowers, G. M. D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>G. M. D. Bowers<\/strong>, a leading merchant of Henning, Lauderdale County, Tenn.; is a<br \/>\nson of James and Dicy M. Bowers, and was born in Brownsville, Tenn., March 19,<br \/>\n1844. Mr. Bowers had good educational advantages and has a good common-school<br \/>\neducation. In 1862 he enlisted as a volunteer in Ward&#8217;s Battery of Panola<br \/>\nCounty, Miss., which was consolidated with Gates&#8217; Battery after the battle of<br \/>\nVicksburg, and he was in several engagements without being wounded, and<br \/>\nremained in the service until the surrender. March 1874, he located in<br \/>\nHenning, Tenn., and commenced merchandising, erecting the first business house<br \/>\nin the place under the firm name of Wilson &amp; Bowers, and ever since has been<br \/>\nin the business, carrying a complete stock of general merchandising, erecting<br \/>\nthe first business, carrying a complete stock of general merchandise. January<br \/>\n20, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary E. Bowers, who was born in Lauderdale<br \/>\nCounty, Tenn., June 13, 1847, one son was born to them, Robert C., November<br \/>\n18, 1868; he died June 13, 1874. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal<br \/>\nChurch South, and died November 25, 1870. November 3, 1875, Mr. Bowers married<br \/>\nMiss F.E.A. Greaves, who was born in Haywood County, Tenn., December 25, 1854,<br \/>\nand two sons and a daughter were born to this marriage: Joseph B., born<br \/>\nOctober 5, 1876, E&#8212;&#8211;, born September 29, 1879, and Robert C., born December<br \/>\n12, 1882; all of them are living. Mr. And Mrs. Bowers are members of the<br \/>\nChristian Church, and in politics he is a straightforward Prohibitionist. As a<br \/>\nmerchant he has been very successful, and at present is carrying such a large<br \/>\nstock that he employs a force of seven men to conduct the business. Mr. Bowers<br \/>\nhas been a resident of the county for sixteen years and is well liked by all<br \/>\nwho know him. He is an accurate business man, and is a Mason and a Knight of<br \/>\nHonor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. M. D. Bowers, a leading merchant of Henning, Lauderdale County, Tenn.; is a son of James and Dicy M. Bowers, and was born in Brownsville, Tenn., March 19, 1844. Mr. Bowers had good educational advantages and has a good <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/bowers-g-m-d\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-bowers"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}