George A. Bowyer

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1814-12-28

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1900-10-17

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White

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"George A. Bowyer" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00006622, (accessed November 5, 2024).

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Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, tailor and merchant tailor. Virginia native. Married to Mary Poindexter Bowyer. Father of George Bowyer, Clarance Bowyer, Charles Bowyer, Lution Bowyer, and Earnest Bowyer. Owned two enslaved persons in Tailor in Fayette County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Merchant tailor in Lexington in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 94.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 206B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 614.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, pp. 523-524.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 1, p. 460B.
Williams & Co., Compilers, Williams' Lexington City Directory for 1864-5, (Lexington, KY, 1864), 112.
Find A Grave, "George Bowyer (1814-1900)," Memorial 83684386, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83684386 (accessed March 10, 2020).

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