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Jack came to Texas with his parents and siblings in 1856. The Bowmans settled not north-east of Plano.
Jackson married Miss Madora Ellen Elizabeth Dye, the daughter of Henry Montgomery Dye and Sarah Elizabeth Skiles. Madora was called shortly Dora, she was born on 6 Feb. 1854 in Plano, Collin, TX. On the day of the wedding, Dora was 18 and Jack was 30. The ceremony took place on 13 July 1872.
Dora's father was one of the very early Plano settlers. In 1850, Henry lived with Mr. Joseph C Keppler and Joseph's family. He was a doctor. During the Civil War he was responsible for Confederate hospitals in Arkansas and worked as a surgeon. Mr. Dye was also the one who suggested the name for the town of Plano (derived from the Spanish word "llano" which means "grassy plain"). Doctor Dye was the first founder of the Presbyterian Church in Plano, he donated the land on which the first building of the church was built.
Jackson Harrison Bowman was a successful man, one of the wealthiest persons of Plano. He was the vice-president and one of the directors of the Plano National Bank which was established in 1877.
Clipping Source: The Plano Star-Courier (Plano, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 14, 1916, newspaper, January 14, 1916; Plano, Texas. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601778/: accessed November 13, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.
G. W. Bowman was George Washington Bowman, Jakson's younger brother. Both brothers were Civil War veterans.
Jackson Harrison Bowman was president of the Plano Cotton Oil Company as well. Besides that, he was an active member of the Presbyterian Church and served as the church board of stewards president for a few decades.
Dora Ellen Bowman grew up in Plano where she attended the first public school. She continued her education at the female Methodist College in Dallas. Mrs. Bowman was immensely involved in the works of Women's Foreign Missionary Conference (she was the Conference president for many years), Women's Foreign Missionary Society and Women's Home Missionary Society. She supported Christian education of the young people who later took up missionary work abroad. Dora Bowman's leadership fruited with establishing Missionary schools in Cuba and Brazil as well.
Dora and Jack Bowman had four children, three girls and one boy. The youngest daughter Minnie Florance, born in 1872, lived four years only.
Jackson Harrison Bowman passed on 14 March 1923 at his home in Plano. Dora lived seven years longer. She died on 11 April in Houston after a stroke she had suffered from about a week earlier. Mrs. James R. Adams was Fannie May, born on 28 Feb. 1879. Both Jack and Dora were buried in Plano.
The Celina Record (Celina, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. [43], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1930, newspaper, April 17, 1930; Celina, Texas. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth773087/: accessed November 13, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Celina Area Historical Association.
What is our family relation to Jackson Harrison Bowman and his wife Dora Ellen?
Jackson Harrison Bowman
⇒ his wife Dora Dye
⇒ her sister Addie Lee Brown nee Dye (b. 23 June 1866, Plano, Collin, TX/d. 5 Jan. 1930, Collin, TX)
⇒ her husband John Wesley Brown (b. 24 Sept. 1858, Sumner, Tennessee/d. 21 Mrch 1934, Plano, Collin, TX)
⇒ his brother Robert Jefferson Davis Brown (b. 11 Sept. 1860, Sumner, Tennessee/d. 23 May 1890, Bethany, Collin, TX)
⇒ his wife Rachel Clementine Brown/Gant nee Howard - our grandmother
Sources:
- Collin County, Texas History
- The Plano Review by H. Grady Chandler, 1914
- Images of America. Historic Downtown Plano by Janice Craze Cline, Arcadai Publishing, 2012
- Brian Stansberry [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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