Bowers Family Cemetery
2003
Located off the Boones Creek Rd. [Hwy. 354] Johnson City, TN, turn opposite mailbox 3030, in front of a new commercial building. The building does not have a number and the lane leading up to it does not have a name. The retaining walls are approximately 3 1/2 feet high. Well kept and landscaped.
NAME BIRTH DATE DEATH DATE COMMENTS
Range, Leonora Bowers May 1843 Nov 1921 Wife of William T. Range
Bowers, Lawrence 1810 1901 [Same marker as Alcy Bowers]
Bowers, Aley 1812 1880 [Same marker as Lawrence Bowers]
Bowers, Henry N. 22 Mar 1842 29 Dec 1883
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web 2003 by Betty Jane Hylton and Donna Cox Briggs members 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 Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. III by Charles M. Bennett and the Watauga Association of Genealogists with permission from Loraine Rae.
p. 75: The following stone was lying on a stump in Mr. Kirkpatrick’s back yard and was badly broken. It had been brought from the old cemetery, which was in the front yard of the house built by B.G. Young [3120 Boones Creek Rd.] on the opposite side of the road and a few hundred yards northeast.
Henry Bowers, departed this life March 28, 1818, age 45y 8m 16d (His will probated April 1818 names wife, Nancy; sons, Levi, Joshua, Abraham, Laurance; daughter, Leah.
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870 by Goldene F. Burgner.
p. 45: Lawrence Bowers—Alsey Mains—md. 18 August 1835—James Miller.
Washington County Tennessee 1860 Census, compiled by Hilda Padgett:
p.12: Bowers, Lawrence 49, Aley 48, Sophia W. 22, Nancy E. 20, Henry A. 19, Tenira S. 16 (f), David A. 15, Augustus C. 13, Roena J. 11; Lumnas, James A. 10; Maines, Mary 78.
p.12: Bowers, Nancy 78, Abraham 54.
Washington County Tennessee 1970 Census, compiled by Hilda Padgett.
p.72: Bowers, Laurence 59, Aley 58, Leonra 26, Raina 21; Farmer, Sarah 10.
p.72: Bowers, David 25, Sarah 23.
p.72: Bowers Nancy 90, Abram 64.
Washington County Tennessee 1880 Census, compiled by Byron Sistler.
p. 10: Bowers, Larence 69, Lenora S. 37, Augustus C. 33, Eva L. 19 (545)
p. 10: Bowen (? Bowers) David A. 34, Sarah C. 33, Byron A. 8, Roenna J. 7, Mary L. 3, Charles L. 3 (545)