Bradley Springs Cemetery Tombstone Project  
M. E. Bowlin

Probably
(Mary) Etta Bowlin
Probably: Oct.22, 1886-Nov. 10 1886

As you can see, there are pieces missing.  We are still looking.  Our best guess on current information is that this is probably Mary Etta Bowlin daughter of James Amos Bowlin and Alice Green (both buried at Tennessee Community Cemetery) and granddaughter of William Marion Bowlin and Elvira Elizabeth Risinger (also buried at Tennessee Community Cemetery.) The dates seem to come closest to fitting the following reference.

The Descendants of Jeremiah Bowlin (1756-2000)
available at the
Timpson Area Genealogical Heritage Society
PO Box 726, Timpson, TX 75975
location: 317 Bremond St., Downtown Timpson on the square
E-mail: [email protected]
page 51
"Etta Bowlin, born 26 August 1886 in Shelby Co., Texas, died in infancy after 1887 (?) in Shelby Co., Texas, and was buried in Bradley Springs Cemetery, Shelby Co., Texas.  Etta Bowlin died as s small child."

Note that while the dates do not match, the come closest to any of the other dates and this is the only tombstone with an E.  The tombstone which included the date: 26 Aug 1886 has it as a birth/death date.  And the name looks like it ends in ULL or UEE.  If other evidence comes to light, we will post the information here.
 

while

Our Dead: Shelby County Texas 1836-1964
by J. B. Sanders
says on page 28
"Bowlin, A.E.bd 1866      93"
93 is the Bradley Springs designation.  We suspect that he was working with a broken stone even then and that the A he saw was actually a part of the M.  The 1866 instead of 1886 was probably a slip of the pen.

Relationship to others buried in Bradley Springs

Great-Great granddaughter of

Amos Gilmore and Mahala Stone Risinger

Probably Sibling of

M. S. Bowlin

Probably 1st Cousin of

Curtis G. Bowlin



 
 

Linkable Bradley Springs List of Known Burials

Bradley Springs Plot Map
Closeups
South West Section:  Rows 1-3, A-C
Mid West Section:    Rows 4-5, A-C
North West Section: Rows 6-8, A-C
North East Section:   Rows 1-3, E-G
Mid East Section:      Rows 4-5, E-G
South East Section:    Rows 6-8, E-G

Bradley Springs Restoration and Preservation Project

Photos from Cemetery Workings

Photos of Bradley Springs

Location Map

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NOTICE

If you have family buried here, you are welcome to attend the annual cemetery working the last Saturday in May.  If it is raining, the gathering usually moves to the First Methodist Church in Tenaha. Come about 11 AM and bring a covered dish, a chair, and information about your family (copies of pictures we may use are especially welcome).

Donations to the upkeep of the cemetery may be made to: 
              Bradley Springs Cemetery Fund 
              Citizens State Bank
              PO Box 380
              Tenaha, Texas 75974


 
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