Cullman County AlArchives Obituaries.....Bowden, Gregory T. July 18, 1936
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"The Cullman Democrat"
Cullman Co., Alabama

Issue of Thursday, July 23, 1936

Last Confederate Veteran Passes

G.T. Bowden, Sole County Survivor, Died Saturday
Prominent Citizen of Cullman for Seventy Years

G.T. Bowden, age 90, the sole surviving Confederate Veteran of Cullman County, 
died at 7:00 o'clock last Saturday Evening. Mr. Bowden had been ill only a few 
weeks before his death, and was unusually alert and in good physical trim for a 
man of his age. A native of Georgia, Mr. Bowden enlisted in the Confederate 
Army at the age of 15 years and served for three years, having been in several 
major battles. He was captured at Murphreesboro, Tenn. and imprisoned in 
Chicago the last year of the war.

Returning to Georgia, he moved shortly to Alabama, and had resided in this 
county continuously for over 70 years. He was a Mason, had served as County 
Commissioner several terms and was well known and popular throughout the county 
for many years.

Two sons, Gregory C. Bowden, Southern District manager of the Southern Bell 
Telephone company, Atlanta, Ga., and Richard Bowden, Cullman, Route 4, survive. 
A brother Braxton Bragg Bowden, of Rangor, Ga., and a sister, Mrs. Jesse Hart, 
of Columbia, Ala., also survive.

Funeral services were held from the home of Mrs. Fred. J. Buchmann on Monday 
afternoon, with Rev. J.H. Brown in charge. Oscar Fischer and Sons, directing. 
Interment was at the Protestant Cemetery. Pall bearers were: Ben Timpe, W.L. 
Ward, W.P. Herrell, J.M. Kilpatrick, G.W. Ponder, Paul Howard.


Additional Comments:
Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 
Name: G. T. Bowden 
Death Date: Jul 1936 
Death County: Cullman  
Volume: 38  
Roll: 3  
Page #: 18658
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Married 1st to Sarah T. "Tossy' Crowder ca 1870-1871.  She passed after April 
15, 1910.

He married 2nd to Leola ?____________ ca 1925.

The Protestant Cemetery is now known as the Cullman City Cemetery.


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