BOWMAN-RANGE CEMETERY

BOWMAN-RANGE CEMETERY
2003

Located at the Hwy. 67 West/321 South exit off the Milligan Highway, Johnson City, TN. A new fenced has been install and the cemetery is clean (November 2012). There are many broken markers, fieldstones and unmarked graves.

GPS Location: 36°18.42N  082°19.57W

Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web (date) by 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:

From “Digging for Your Roots,” by John L. Kiener, Jonesborough Herald-Tribune, April 22, 2003, page 4B:

(The Bowman-Range Cemetery is located in the 3^rd Ward of Johnson City, Tennessee at the end of Young Street off Crescent Drive. According to the notes placed with the cemetery information filed at the Washington County/Jonesborough Library, 200 Sabin Drive, Jonesborough, Tennessee 37659, Billy Rowland, 219 Young Street, Johnson city, Tennessee said his father purchased the land from Mrs. Texie M. Allison. Mrs. Allison bought the land from John H. Bowman, and the cemetery site was excepted in the deed. The Cemetery was copied on May 6, 1961 by Lena Hunt Henderson, L.W. and Mrs. L.W. McCown, 512 East Unaka Avenue, Johnson City, Tennessee.-J.L. Kiener)

The gravesites, names, and dates as copied in 1961 of the Bowman-Range Cemetery are:

BOWMAN, John H. (1-9-1809 – 6-10-1874)

BOWMAN, Selina J. First wife of J.H. Bowman (1-19-1811 – 10-13-1848)

BOWMAN, Jane R. Second wife of J.H. Bowman (1-10-1816 – 4-15-1872)

BOWMAN, Sousannah H. (stone set down into concrete hiding data)

BOWMAN, Mary Mother of J.H. Bowman (9-15-1777 – 2-29-1818)

BOWMAN, Mary Rankin Wife of A.B. Bowman (Died 7-12-1889 – Age 35 years, 10 months, and 7 days)

Unmarked stone in concrete beside Mary, Mother of J.H. Bowman

FISHER, Wiley D. Son of J.A. & M.J. Fisher (12-4-1887 – 6-24-1905)

FISHER, Laura B. Daughter of J.A. & M.J. Fisher (3-1-1881 – 3-4-1896)

RANGE, Matilda Wife of Peter Range (Died 2-2-1858 – Age 61 years, 8 days)

RANGE, Peter (The stone is gone but there is a footstone with “P.R.” carved on it) Data of Peter Range was supplied from a Bible Record as follows: (4-3-1792 – 76-1866 – Age 74 years, 3 months, 3 days)

There are many other graves in this cemetery. The graves are sunken and many of the graves have missing markers.

NOTES MADE

[The late] Mrs. L.W. McCown made notes for the Bowman-Range Cemetery from Bowman & Hoss data in her files. The material reads as follows: “The Peter Range (1792 – 1866) is Peter Range, Jr. son of Peter & Elizabeth Hieronousus Range, who lived on Knob Creek. Peter, Sr. died in 1817… (his) grave is marked with a rock and the rock has a date on it.”

Matilda Range was Matilda Hale. A copy of their Bible record is contained in the files of Mr. L.W. McCown. Elinor Range was the daughter. She did not marry. Her grave is the most recent marked grave in this Cemetery off Young Street, 3^rd Ward in Johnson City, Tennessee.

“Mary, Mother of John H. Bowman (1777 – 1818) “was the wife of Joseph Bowman (1784 – 1850).” Joseph Bowman was the son of the old Jacob Bowman & Susannah Millhouse Bowman, of Rockingham County, Virginia. The Bowmans migrated to Washington County, Tennessee early. Joseph Bowman was a preacher in the Brethren Church on Boones and Knob Creek. He may be buried in the Knob Creek Brethren Cemetery. Mary Bowman was Mary Hoss, daughter of Jacob Hoss & Mary Boon Hoss, The first of the Hoss name in Washington County, Tennessee. They settled in the eastern area of what is now Johnson City.

FOUR CHILDREN

Joseph and Mary Bowman had four children: (1) Susanna, born in 1807 married James Crouch on May 26, 1825; James was the son of Joseph & Margaret Sanford Crouch, of the Boones Creek area; (2) John H. who on July 4, 1837 married Salina J. Broyles in Washington County, Tennessee; (3) Elizabeth (born 1809) who married Henry Bashor on February 19, 1831 – Bashor was a Brethren, and (4) Jacob Bowman who died in infancy.

THE GRAVEYARD FIELD

One record I have states: Mary Hoss, born (c – circa) 1790 – which is in error and died about 1816 or 1819. (The tombstone gives 9-15-1777 – 2-29-1919) Mary Hoss is buried on their farm called “The Graveyard Field.” In 1806, she married Joseph Bowman (1784 – 1850). Bowman was a Deacon in the Church of the Brethren, and son of old Jacob Bowman of Rockingham County, Virginia & Susannah Millhouse Bowman. Susannah married a second time after the death of Jacob to Isaac Hammer, also a Minister of the Church of the Brethren. After the death of Mary Hoss Bowman, Joseph Bowman married a second time in Virginia to Christian Beahm. The marriage took place in 1819. This couple was the parents of six children: (1) Daniel, (2) David, (3) Joseph, (4) Catherine, (5) Mary, and (6) Sarah Bowman.

Joseph Bowman & Christian Beahm Bowman are both buried in the Cemetery at the Knob Creek Brethren Church:

Joseph Bowman (Born 9-26-1784 – Died 8-12-1854)

Christiana Beam Bowman, consort of Joseph Bowman (Born 3-10-1789 – Died 12-22-1861)

The Knob Creek Brethren Cemetery is across the road from the present Church Building of the Knob Creek Brethren.

MISSING CONNECTION

I have not yet unraveled the connection between Peter & Matilda Hale Range, Jr. and the Bowmans. I do know that Wm. T. Range, son of Peter Range, Jr. & Matilda H. Range lived on an adjoining farm to the John H. Bowman farm. Could this site have been part of the Jacob Hoss, father of Mary Hoss Bowman, holdings? Likely the Washington County Deeds may answer this question. This May 7, 1961. Types by [late] Mary Hardin McCowan (Mrs. L.W.)