Obituaries:
Mahlon Bewley
ADMINISTRATION NOTICE
Arkansas Gazette February 16, 1836
The undersigned having obtained, on the 22d day of December, A. D. 1835, from the Clerk (in vacation) of the County Court of Pope county, and Territory of Arkansas, Letters of Administration on the estate of Mahlon Bewley, late of said county, deceased, hereby gives notice to all persons having claims against said estate, to present them to him, properly authenticated, according to law, within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from deriving any benefit from said estate ; and if said claims be not presented, within five years from the date of said letters, they will be ever barred. Said estate is probably insolvent. All persons indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber.
ROBERT S. BEWLEY,
Adm'r of the estate of Mahlon Bewley, deceased.
Pope county, Feb. 4, 1836. 9-3w
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
Rev. J.J. Bowden Obituary
Arkansas Methodist--September 15,1897
At Rest : BOWDEN: - Rev. J.J. Bowden was born in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, January 22, 1814. Moved with his parents to Murray county, Tennessee in 1819; they moved to Lawrence county, Tennessee, 1820. Uncle Jackson, embraced religion September 1828 and united with the Methodist Church. He emigrated to Pope county, Ark., in 1844, and was licensed to preach by Andrew Hunter, at Lewisburg, Arkansas, in the fall of 1848, ordained deacon by Bishop Pain, at Clarksville, Arkansas, in 1852, ordained elder by Bishop Early, at Dardanelle, Arkansas, in 1858. When the war closed the Church was disorganized, but he went to work and helped to organize the Clarksville district, and was appointed P. C. of Dover circuit, the first year after the war. He donated eight acres of land near him on which he built a large frame church with some assistance and helped to erect an arbor and enclosed it with a plank fence. It is known as the Bowden Chapel camp ground. He was true to the prayer meeting, Sunday-school, and the ministry. Thousands no doubt will be saved by his ministry. His death was caused by a fall while on his why to Brownwood. He died at the residence of his son, M. E. Bowden, near Mexia, Texas, November 24, 1896. Uncle Jackson was well known as a true enthusiastic preacher. Got a blessing at every service. What a priceless legacy for his nine children who survive him. May the same God whom he trusted, comfort the bereaved, and may all meet in a brighter, better world.
Allen F. Bowden. Clio, Texas
Nashville and Texas Advocates
A. B. Bewley
Obituary:
We your committee appointed to draft a memorial suitable to the memory of our deceased brother, A. B. Bewley, would respectfully submit the following:We find that Brother Bewley was born in Green County, Ala., A. D.; came to Arkansas at the age of 12 years and made Scottsville his home all his life. He professed religion some 35 years ago and has been an acceptable member of the M. E. Church, South until Feb. 20, 1899 when his spirit took its leave of the tenements of clay. After 85 years, 7 months and 11 days of life on earth he has gone to join the disembodied spirits in the far away home of the soul. He leaves a wife, two sons and two daughters with a number of grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn his loss.
