Identifier: indianwarspionee00brow (find matches)
Title: Indian wars and pioneers of Texas
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America
Publisher: Austin : L.E. Daniel)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on the 25th of Octo-ber, 1885, in his 88th year. Fifty-six years, lesstwo months and two days, had passed since theadoption of his resolution and other years havebeen added to the past, and still there is no mon-ument to Milam. Some men have become million-aires in the town he won to liberty and a largenumber have become wealthy. Every man on thatcommittee and every member of that council isdead, and still there is no monument to Milam!Will it for ever be tiius? God forbid! Rezin P. and James Bowie — The Bowie Family. An erroneous impression has ever prevailed inregard to the Bowie family-, in the belief that theysprang from Maryland. Such, until now, was myown impression ; but I am now in possession of per-fectly authentic facts to the contrarj. Two of three Scotch brothers of the name did settle inMaryland and have a numerous posterity. But athird brother, at the same time, settled in SouthCarolina. His son, Rezin Bowie, born in SouthCarolina, was wounded and taken prisoner by the
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KKZIN P. BOWJK. INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 135 British. Wliile so held in Savannah, among otherAmerican ladies who bestowed kindness upon him,■was a lovely and pious young lady named Elve(sometimes written Elvy) Jones, of a large andeducated family. In 1782 Rezin Bowie and thisgirl were married in Georgia and settled there.They became the parents of the Texas Bowies.Their first children, dying in infancy, were twingirls, Lavinia and Lavisia. David, a remarkablypious youth, died at the age of nineteen ; Sarah,who married Mr. Davis and died in Opelousas, La.,in her first childbirth; Mary, afterwards Mrs.Abram Bird, and John J., who died a few years agoin Issequana County, Miss. These six were bornin Georgia. The parents then removed to ElliottsSprings, Tennessee, where, on the 8th of September,1793, the distinguished Rezin Pleasants Bowie wasborn. Two years later, in 1795, James Bowie,martyr of the Alamo, was born at the same place,followed by Stephen, who became a planter onB

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