Robert Sanders Bewley & Evalina Langford

Descendants of

Robert Sanders Bewley

& Evalina Langford
 
Robert Sanders Bewley  (Mahlon, George, Anthony, John, George) was born Abt. 1803 in Virginia, and died Abt. 1883 in Scottsville, Pope Co., Arkansas.  He married (1) Evalina LANGFORD Abt. 1825 in Jackson Co., Alabama (?), daughter of Benjamin LANGFORD and Martha "Patsy" PACE.  He married (2) Elizabeth Jane DAVIS BEWLEY March 20, 1864 in Pope Co., Arkansas.
More About Robert Sanders BEWLEY:
Burial: Abt. 1883, Langford Cemetery, Scottsville, Pope Co., Arkansas
Marriage Notes for Robert BEWLEY and Elizabeth BEWLEY:
Marriage performed by J.M. Bewley, MG

Robert was the second born son to Mahlon Bewley and Jane Reed.  One of ten children, he and brothers John M., Nelson Reed, and George Washington were all born in Virginia. His four sisters, Jane, Sarah Ann, Rebecca, and Elmira, and brothers Anthony B., and Benjamin Vanpelt were all born in Jackson Co., Alabama. The Bewley family moved to Pope Co., Arkansas sometime around 1829, as they appear on the 1830 Pope County census.  Listed as heads of household are :
            John M. Buley          (brother)
            Mahlon Bewley          (father)
            Robert Buley
            Benjamin Langford      (father-in-law)
On November 4, 1830 Robert's father Rev. Mahlon Bewley performed the wedding ceremony for his sister Sarah Ann to Lewis Potter.

"Rev. Mahlon Bewley along with his 4 preacher sons, Rev. John M. Bewley, Rev. Robert S. Bewley, Rev. George W. Bewley and Rev. Nelson Bewley, founded the first church, which was Methodist, at Boiling Springs near Hector in Pope County.  Rev. Mahlon Bewley lies in an unmarked grave in Bewley Cemetery on the N.E. corner of Pine Hill, also Rev. Nelson Bewley; Rev. John M. Bewley in the Bewley Cemetery on Gumlog Creek near Pea Ridge Mt.; and Rev. Robert S. Bewley in the Langford Cemetery near Scottsville.
Rev. Robert S. Bewley preached at Dwight Mission the first Sunday in January 1829, and at the conclusion of the sermon, Rev. Cephas Washington  shook hands with him and stated [you have this day preached the first Methodist sermon in Pope County.]  He preached in Little Rock in 1831, in a little log church house belonging to the Cumberland Presbyterians." (My Study of the Tripp Family by "Bob" Tripp)

According to Federal Population Schedules, Arkansas Census 1840:
            Bewley, J. M.                Gumlog Township
            Bewley, Anthony            Liberty Township
            Bewley, Robert S.          Liberty Township
            Langford, Benjamin        Liberty Township
 

 
"The territory .. in Pope County was included in the Indian territory until 1828 .. few white people had entered the county before the departure of the Cherokees. There were, of course, the usual number of hardy white pioneers  who always follow the receding borders of an uncivilized country.  Among the first settlers of the Illinois Bayou above Dover were Hon. Benjamin Langford and his four sons-in-law John S. Price, Thomas Gardner, R. S. Bewley and John Ridge all from northern Alabama ... John R. Homer Scott ... felt that (they) had wielded quite an influence on the early history of the county." Russellville Centennial 1870-1970  Arrows to Atoms


        Children of Robert BEWLEY and Evalina LANGFORD :

Mahlon Bewley b. March 02, 1830    
Benjamin Franklin Bewley b. Abt. 1832    
Narcissa Evalina Bewley b. January 04, 1834 Scottsville, Pope Co, AR m. Jackson J. Bowden d. August 04, 1885,
Pope Co., Arkansas
Jane Bewley b. Abt. 1837    
Ellen A. Bewley b. Abt. 1839    
Almira Bewley b. Abt. 1844    

          

        Children of Robert BEWLEY and Elizabeth BEWLEY are:

Eldory Lee Bewley b. Abt. 1864    
Robert Sanders Bewley, Jr b. February 02, 1865    
Frank Bewley      
Liddy C. Bewley b. Abt. 1872    
Richard Nelson Bewley b. January 29, 1870    
Selvanie Bewley b. Abt. 1877    

           Generation No. 2

2.  Narcissa Evalina BEWLEY (Robert Sanders, Mahlon, George Anthony) was born January 04, 1834 in Scottsville, Pope Co., Arkansas, and died August 04, 1885 in Pope Co., Arkansas.  She married Jackson J. BOWDEN August 12, 1852 in Pope Co., Arkansas.

Notes for Narcissa Evalina BEWLEY:

Obituary:

Died of heart disease Aug. 4, 1885, Mrs. Narcissa E. Bowden.
She was as well as usual to within twenty minutes of her death.  Subject of the above was a daughter of R.S. and Evelina Bewly.  Born in Pope county, Arkansas, January 4th 1834, was married to the Rev. J.J. Bowden Aug. 12, 1852, and happily converted to God on the 4th Sunday in September, 1854, at Gum Log camp-meeting, and she ever afterwards lived a faithful and devoted christian.  The writer during the past 11 years has often met with her around the sick beds of her friends, children and husband and on her own sick bed we were frequently called to administer and wait on her, and always found her the same dignified, modest, prudent christian with a heart full of sympathy and kindness for her friends and family in times of affliction, Sister Bowden was a woman of fine native intellect, energetic and industrious.  She leaves a husband, one daughter and six sons to mourn her departure.  But while she leaves those of mature years she has gone to meet those three little ones on heaven's eternal happy shores.  Her funeral will be preached at Gravel Hill camp meeting, embracing the 2d Sunday in next month.  May God comfort the bereaved.
C.L. Kirksey

Notes for Jackson J. BOWDEN:

Jackson J. Bowden was born in Oglethorpe, Georgia January 22, 1814. His family moved to Murray County, Tennessee in 1819 when he was 5 years old.  They then moved to Lawrence County, Tennessee in 1820. Jackson J. Bowden married Salina Lay in Lawrence Co., Tennessee where his first 3 children , all daughters, were born.  The family moved to Arkansas sometime around 1844, where 3 more children, another daughter and two sons were born.  Selina probably died in 1850 and is buried most likely in Gravel Hill.  At the age of 38 he married his second wife, Narcissa Bewley, age 18.  Marriage was performed by her uncle John M. Bewley. The couple had 10 children, 3 of whom died in infancy. From 1845 up to the beginning of the Civil War, Jackson J. Bowden was a militia captain.  He was appointed postmaster at the Post Office in Moreland in 1866.  He held this position for 3 or 4 years.  He joined a temperance organization  in Dover in 1867. Despite his old age, he raised with his own hands, two and a half bales of cotton, thirty bushels of corn and forty bushels of sweet potatoes.

Marriage Notes for Narcissa BEWLEY and Jackson BOWDEN:
Marriage performed by John M. Bewley, uncle of Narcissa.

Children of Narcissa BEWLEY and Jackson BOWDEN:

       
       

Generation No. 3

3.  Robert Sanders BOWDEN (Narcissa E. BEWLEY, Robert S., Mahlon, George Anthony) was born October 04, 1854 in Gravel Hill, Pope Co., Arkansas, and died October 12, 1933 in
Pope Co., Arkansas.  He married Lydia G. REYNOLDS February 14, 1878 in Pope Co., Arkansas, daughter of
Andrew REYNOLDS and Martha JEANES.

Notes for Robert S. BOWDEN:
Robert and Lydia appear on the 1870 Pope Co., Arkansas census.  He was 17 years old, living with his parents.  She was 12 years old, living with her widowed mother, 4 sisters and 1 brother.  They were next door neighbors.  He died at the home of his son.

More About Lydia G. REYNOLDS:
Burial: Hillis Cemetery, Gravel Hill, Pope Co., Arkansas

Marriage Notes for Robert S. BOWDEN and Lydia REYNOLDS:
Marriage performed by J.W. Sugg

Children of ROBERT BOWDEN and LYDIA REYNOLDS are:
4. i. LONZO J.8 BOWDEN, b. November 29, 1882, Gravel Hill, Pope Co., Arkansas; d. March 09, 1970, St. Paul's
Cemetery, Pope Co., Arkansas.
ii. JOHN WESLEY BOWDEN.
iii. MATTIE F. BOWDEN.
iv. ALVIS ROBERT BOWDEN.
v. FINIS TELDON BOWDEN.
vi. ROSA MAY BOWDEN.
vii. WILLIAM ANDREW BOWDEN.
 

Generation No. 4

4.  LONZO J.8 BOWDEN (ROBERT SANDERS7, NARCISSA EVALINA6 BEWLEY, ROBERT SANDERS5, MAHLON4, GEORGE
ANTHONY3, JOHN2, GEORGE1) was born November 29, 1882 in Gravel Hill, Pope Co., Arkansas, and died March
09, 1970 in St. Paul's Cemetery, Pope Co., Arkansas.  He married DELPHIA VERLIN KENDRICK October 21, 1903
in Pope Co., Arkansas.

Marriage Notes for LONZO BOWDEN and DELPHIA KENDRICK:
Marriage performed by B.E. Whorton, JP

 

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