Uvalde Co., TX: News - Calvin Bowles, Died on American Soil, 1898 This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Don Brownlee Upload date: 01/06/2005 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************** 12 March 1898 Dallas (TX) Morning News, p. 6 Died on American Soil Eagle Pass, Tex., March 10. - Mr. Calvin Bowles, a young man, well-known on the frontier, was brought across the bridge from Mexico to the United States yesterday while breathing his last. He had been sick for some weeks and yesterday the attending physician informed him that he had but a few moments to live. He desired to be interred in his native land, and as the shipment of a body out of Mexico is attended with great delay and expense, he was tenderly carried across the bridge while yet living, only to die as he touched American soil. The body was shipped to his home in Uvalde.