Biography of Joseph McGowen, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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McGOWEN - JOSEPH - - - - 1829 - UNK

(COULD BE JOSEPH McGOWAN IN BELL CEMETERY) 

Joseph McGowen, a native of North Carolina, was left an orphan at the age of
seven years, his mother having died in 1836 and his father four years later. He
was then bound out to a Mr. Turnage, with whom he remained until his seventeenth
year, when he commenced working for himself at common farm labor in Shelby
County, Tenn., and in 1852 purchased a farm in Tipton County. He was married
November 19, 1854, to Cordelia A. Joyce, a native of Tennessee. They were the
parents of thirteen children, seven of whom are still living: William Oliver
(born January 15, 1856), Eugenia H. (born September 6, 1857) and Thomas Martin
(born April 26, 1862), who are married; Edward G. (born October 1, 1860), Annie
Eliza (born January 10, 1867), Mary Frances (born December 25, 1868) and James
Taylor (born June 28, 1872). Eugenia H. was married to William Williams March 4,
1875; William Oliver was married to M. J. English December 28, 1881; Thomas
Martin was married to Gertrude Tennant December 21, 1887. Mr. McGowen remained
in Tipton County until 1878 when he removed to Lee County, Ark., but after one
year there, came to St. Francis County, where he still resides. He owns a
quarter section of land with all but twenty acres under cultivation. Mr. McGowen
has always been an active Democrat, and is a strong advocate of the public
school system.