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Subject: [TNGREENE] Re: Elizabeth Bowman
Date: 4 May 2002 10:09:15 -0600


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Surnames: Johnson Johnston Lemon Lemons Lamon Layman Lamons Lemmon Lemmons Leming Bowman
Classification: Query

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Message Board Post:

Glenda...

The Bowman connection is very possible. However, Elizabeth Bowman m. William Johnston in 1800, and is Sparling Bowman's sister. Check out wills from John Bowman and Jacob Bowman, which establish the relationships.

Elizabeth Bowman and William Johnston may or may not be my ancestors, still working on the connection, as I am descended from Nancy Jane Lemon Johnson's 4th and last son. The father of her last two sons remains a mystery, as her husband James Johnson died a few years before they were born. The mystery man by oral tradition and sparse records was a William Johnson, possibly son, grandson or nephew of the William Johnson that married Elizabeth Bowman, but not enough data to say anything for certain, yet.

However, Nancy Jane Lemons Johnson's husband James Johnson was the son of Thomas Johnson and Polly Bowman.

Thomas Johnson was the son of James Johnson and Molly Dinsmore. James Johnson and Molly Dinsmore were original grant holders of land just south of the Nolichuckey River. Thomas and then his son James inherited land in this area, and part of that land was passed down to Nancy Jane Lemons Johnson's first two children who were fathered by James Johnson. This is the area we now call Camp Creek.

Quite a few of the family are buried in the cemetery on Red Hill, also called Mount Olive. James Johnson, husband of Nancy Jane Lemons Johnson, and son of Thomas Johnson and Polly Bowman, is buried in an unmarked grave (just a stone with no writing) in an unmaintained Indian and Slave cemetery, one hill over (right across the street) from Red Hill.

David Johnson







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