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
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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
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Children of Robert BEWLEY and Evalina LANGFORD :
Mahlon Bewley |
b. March 02, 1830 |
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Benjamin Franklin Bewley |
b. Abt. 1832 |
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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 |
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Ellen A. Bewley |
b. Abt. 1839 |
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Almira Bewley |
b. Abt. 1844 |
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Children of Robert BEWLEY and Elizabeth BEWLEY
are:
Eldory Lee Bewley |
b. Abt. 1864 |
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Robert Sanders Bewley, Jr |
b. February 02, 1865 |
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Frank Bewley |
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Liddy C. Bewley |
b. Abt. 1872 |
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Richard Nelson Bewley |
b. January 29, 1870 |
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Selvanie Bewley |
b. Abt. 1877 |
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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.
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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.
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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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