ALLEGHANY COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Bowen, Lone Graves ----¤¤¤---- Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Bowen, Lone graves: 1937 July 20 Research made by Robert Stover Cemetery Location: Go 14 miles southwest of Covington, Virginia, leaving Route #60, on Route #18 up Potts Creek 8 miles to Blue Spring Run Junction, thence Route #615 up Blue Spring Run 4 miles to junction of Route #616 and #615, thence Route #616 towards Bess’s Run (the old yellow Route Turnpike) 1 mile to Charley Smith’s, take private road to southeast 1 mile to cleared field (the William Bowen place) find graves on east of said field. Alleghany County OWNERS: 1833 – Nathan and Barbara Bush to John Reynolds 1847 – John Reynolds to Dioclesian Reynolds 1848 – Dioclesian Reynolds and Polly to Fielding Sizer 1848 – Fielding P. & Mary P. Sizer to Edwin Jordan 1881 – Edwin Jordan to John McPherson 1881 – John McPherson to Jacob A. Arritt 1896 – Jacob A. & Margaret Arritt to Mary Jane & William Bowen 1919 – Bowen Heirs to W.F. Bowen 1922 – W.F. & Bertha M. Bowen to L.H. Bowen 1936 – L.H. Bowen to W.F. Bowen & B.H. Tucker DESCRIPTION: Private graves, situated on each side of cultivated farming land and approximately 200 yards to northeast of new house of late William Bowen. There are three graves. The burial spot is in fair condition, but no fence encloses the graves. A rambling rose bush adorns the sacred spot. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: William Bowen, a son of Johnson Bowen, who was a school teacher and Nancy Bowen, Nancy Harless, a daughter of Anthony Harless. Mr. John Bowen is authority for saying that Nancy Bowen is buried in Bowen Fridley graveyard, situated about 1.5 miles to northeast of said graves. William Bowen was a farmer and “wagoner”, that is he drove a covered wagon as transfer and peddler. He was a Confederate soldier in the War Between the States, enlisting with some other residents from Potts Creek on Sunday at Shoep’s Chapel, so states Porter Bowen, his grandson, who also states that William Bowen was shot in the foot in some battle in which “Stonewall” Jackson was wounded, and having given Jackson a chew of tobacco only a few hours before he was shot. William Bowen owned a farm of 192 acres on north of Nichols Knob at one time. Inscriptions: Only one tombstone, a double one: Father William Bowen b. Sept. 24, 1843 d. Dec. 14, 1916 Mother Mary Jane Bowen b. 1840 d. Feb. 14, 1916 SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Informants: Mrs. Daisy Gilbert, Blue Spring Run, Virginia Mr. John Bowen and Porter L. Bowen, Covington, Virginia RFD Route #2 Court Records, Clerk’s Office, Alleghany County, Covington, Virginia ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joan Renfrow NOTICE: I have no relationship or further information in regards to this family. ___________________________________________________________________