{"id":6486,"date":"2013-06-05T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:48:05","slug":"bowen-bolivar-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bowen-bolivar-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"BOWEN, Bolivar Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOWEN, Bolivar Burns<\/strong>, traveling salesman; born Chulahoma, Miss., Nov. 16, 1852; Welsh-English and French descent; son of <strong>Richard P. and Jane S. (Tucker) BOWEN<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, planter; paternal grandparents <strong>A.M. and Catherine Rent (Poston) BOWEN<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Jeremiah and Abagail (Clifton) TUCKER<\/strong>; received common school education; in early life was a farmer; married <strong>Mary Elyza TUCKER<\/strong>, Jan. 19, 1880; member DeSoto Lodge No. 299, F. &amp; A.M., Past Master of said Lodge; Democrat; election commissioner of Shelby Co., Tenn., 1903-1907; was for a number of years chairman of the endowment committee of Masonic Widows&#8217; and Orphans&#8217; Home; was instrumental in creating more election booths in city of Memphis, Tenn.; member of First Baptist church, Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BOWEN, Bolivar Burns, traveling salesman; born Chulahoma, Miss., Nov. 16, 1852; Welsh-English and French descent; son of Richard P. and Jane S. (Tucker) BOWEN; father&#8217;s occupation, planter; paternal grandparents A.M. and Catherine Rent (Poston) BOWEN, maternal grandparents Jeremiah and Abagail (Clifton) TUCKER; received common school education; in early life was a farmer; married [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4405,4419],"tags":[952,2644,60,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-6486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bowen","10":"tag-clifton","11":"tag-poston","12":"tag-tucker","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}