Person

William M. Bowman (Clerk in Eddyville, Kentucky)

b. 1831-02-07 d. 1905-09-09

Lyon County, Kentucky, clerk. Clark County, Indiana, native. Son of Hanson Bowman and Mary Ann Applegate Bowman. Farmer in Clark County, Indiana, in 1850. Clerk in Lyon County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Lyon County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, p. 150B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 765.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 41A.

"W. M. Bowman Dead," Owensboro Daily Inquirer (Owensboro, KY), September 11, 1905, p. 1.

"W Milton Bowman (1831-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial 67103566, accessed January 26, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67103566.

Citation

Bowman, William M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201064 (November 12, 2026).

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