Henry Clay Bowman

Birth Date

1822

Death Date

1903-01-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Bowman. Married to Sallie Bowman. Father of Annabelle Bowman, Lucy Bowman, Sallie Bowman, and Henry Bowman. Married to Elizabeth Bowman. Father to Willie Bowman and Robert Lee Bowman. Farmer in Fayette County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Farmer in Fayette County in 1860. Owner twenty-six enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 163B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 287.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 427B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Precinct 5, p. 114A.
"End Came Suddenly," Lexington Leader (Lexington, Ky.) January 25, 1903, p. 4.
"Henry Clay Bowman (1822-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #43237606, accessed June 24, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43237606.

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