Martin V. Bowen

Birth Date

1838-03-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mercer County, Kentucky, shoemaker, jailer, and police judge. Married to Parellee Gabhart Bowen. Father of Sallie Bowen. Shoemaker in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed George Walton as an apprentice in Mercer County in 1860. Jailer of Mercer County c1862. Police judge of Mercer County in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, p. 547 .
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000191863, Mercer County Marriages, p. 2565.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 304.
Kenneth W. Noe, "'Disturbers of the Peace': The Kidnapping of John D. Hale and the Long Civil War in Kentucky," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 117, Number 2, Spring 2019, p. 277.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #22360.
KYR-0001-005-0100.

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