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
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.