from: Dept of State, Florida State Records Center, Division of Archi ves,

history + records management, Talahassee, FL, Mr. Jesse J. McCarary , Jr., Secy of State(Archives Accession number p74-08)(book 2, page 11) P.G. (PLEASANT GREEN) BOWLES WAS EMPLOYED AS A RAILROAD DETECTIVE I N JACKSON CO. FLORIDA, PRIOR TO 23 JUNE 1898. Pleasant Green (P.G.) Bowles, white male, age 34, prison number 4201 ; sentenced to 2 1/2 years, 1898, June 23; crime: driving cattle on R.R. Tracks ; died November, 1898, sentenced from: Jackson County FL. (died from pneumo nia from working in a sulphur mine while imprisoned).

!1860-Ochesee, Calhoun, FL Census, reel 2299, Ellen Barbara AYRES wit h father, mother, sisters + brothers !1870, Jul 5, Marianna, Calhoun, FL, Reel 38056 Pt 1 census, With Tho mas, Sarah, Ellen, Albert, Samuel + step brother, William Howard, living n ext door to Mother + step father. !1880, Jun 5, 3rd precinct, Calhoun Co., FL, living with sister Mar y Ayres Whilfield, husband + dau, Janie Stephens, census reel 51620, pt. 971 , page 10 !1883, Nov 11, Calhoun Co., FL, Marr. Records, Vol 2 pg 110, Pleasan t Green BALDS + Ellen AYRES, (also see Family Bible) !1898, 26 Nov 1898, death record, Reiford, FL Prison Records, Famil y Bible !1900, Jun census, Freestone Co TX, Census, precinct 2, Ellen BOWLES , head, Lonia D., mother-in-law, John G., Nora, Lizzie, Ellen, Malzie(childre n) !1901, deed book 161, pg 418, Freestone Co., TX, 2 Dec 1901, Henry PA RKER to (H ellen BOLLS) Ellen BOWLES, 85 acres for 8 bales of cotton !1902, deed book 22, pg 602, Leon Co., TX, 2 Jan 1902, J. L. Ayer s + wife to Ellen BOWLES, 85 acres for 16 bales of cotton !1903, deed book, 20, page 142, Leon County TX, 16 Nov 1903 (H ellen BOLLS) Ellen BOWLES to Henry PARKER, 80 Acres !1906, Deed book 9, p. 209, block 12, Reimans add., Seymour, TX, Mill er St. !1907, interest from 15 Nov 1906, C.M.J. Stringer to Ellen Bowles 1916, Seymour, Baylor County, Texas Marriage Record No. 381, Book 4 , page 38, W. H. Burns and Ellen Bowles, 18 Mar 1916 !1934, Deed book 327, page 584, all of east half of block 84, 5 May 1 934, R. L. Freeman and wife, Lizze to Mrs. Ellen Bowles, Wichita Falls, Wichita , TX 1936, Deed all of block 84, Wichita Falls, Texas, Ellen Ayres Bowle s to Nora Sullivan, 25 feet, 1936 Power of Attorney, Wichita County, TX 1936, Death Certificate, Reg. No. 120, Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX , 7 Mar 1936, Mrs. Ellen Bowles, died at her home, 113 East Wichita St., Wichita Fa lls, TX, 8:30 A.M., Cemetery, Thornberry, Texas, 8 Mar 1936, Charles Meeks pai d for her burial.

from: Dept of State, Florida State Records Center, Division of Archi ves, history + records management, Talahassee, FL, Mr. Jesse J. McCarary , Jr., Secy of State(Archives Accession number p74-08)(book 2, page 11)

Pleasant Green (P.G.) Bowles, white male, age 34, prison number 4201 ; sentenced to 2 1/2 years, 1898, June 23; crime: driving cattle on R.R. Tracks ; died November, 1898, sentenced from: Jackson County FL. (died from pneumo nia from working in a sulphur mine while imprisoned).

!1860-Ochesee, Calhoun, FL Census, reel 2299, Ellen Barbara AYRES wit h father, mother, sisters + brothers !1870, Jul 5, Marianna, Calhoun, FL, Reel 38056 Pt 1 census, With Tho mas, Sarah, Ellen, Albert, Samuel + step brother, William Howard, living n est door to Mother + step father. !1880, Jun 5, 3rd precinct, Calhoun Co., FL, living with sister Mar y Ayres Whilfield, husband + dau, Janie Stephens, census reel 51620, pt. 971 , page 10 !1883, Nov 11, Calhoun Co., FL, Marr. Records, Vol 2 pg 110, Pleasan t Green BALDS + Ellen AYRES, (also see Family Bible) !1898, 26 Nov 1898, death record, Reiford, FL Prison Records, Famil y Bible !1900, Jun census, Freestone Co TX, Census, precinct 2, Ellen BOWLES , head, Lonia D., mother-in-law, John G., Nora, Lizzie, Ellen, Malzie(childre n) !1901, deed book 161, pg 418, Freestone Co., TX, 2 Dec 1901, Henry PA RKER to (H ellen BOLLS) Ellen BOWLES, 85 acres for 8 bales of cotton !1902, deed book 22, pg 602, Leon Co., TX, 2 Jan 1902, J. L. Ayer s + wife to Ellen BOWLES, 85 acres for 16 bales of cotton !1903, deed book, 20, page 142, Leon County TX, 16 Nov 1903 (H ellen BOLLS) Ellen BOWLES to Henry PARKER, 80 Acres !1906, Deed book 9, p. 209, block 12, Reimans add., Seymour, TX, Mill er St. !1907, interest from 15 Nov 1906, C.M.J. Stringer to Ellen Bowles 1916, Seymour, Baylor County, Texas Marriage Record No. 381, Book 4 , page 38, W. H. Burns and Ellen Bowles, 18 Mar 1916 !1934, Deed book 327, page 584, all of east half of block 84, 5 May 1 934, R. L. Freeman and wife, Lizze to Mrs. Ellen Bowles, Wichita Falls, Wichita , TX 1936, Deed all of block 84, Wichita Falls, Texas, Ellen Ayres Bowle s to Nora Sullivan, 25 feet, 1936 Power of Attorney, Wichita County, TX 1936, Death Certificate, Reg. No. 120, Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX , 7 Mar 1936, Mrs. Ellen Bowles, died at her home, 113 East Wichita St., Wichita Fa lls, TX, 8:30 A.M., Cemetery, Thornberry, Texas, 8 Mar 1936, Charles Meeks pai d for her burial.

owned a portion of a book, map + print seller's shop in St. Paul's Ch urchyard, London, England

was deputy commissary, Frederick Town MD, vestryman in All Saint's An glican Church, and trustee of the county free school. He was a Loyalist + d uring the Revolutionary War, lost all his prestige, moved to Washington Co. MD , did not join the Army, so did not lose his land.

!book-'William Augustus Bowles, Director General of the Creek Nation ' by J. Wright !enlisted with Loyalists in fall of 1777 within General William Howe' s lines at Philadelphia PA; was Ensign, later resigned his commission in FL in l ate Dec 1778, or late in 1779 He was a master of many fields, literature, drama, languages, history , all the sciences, and artist Tried to help the Muskogee Indian Confederacy establish a nation in a nd around Florida, but was betrayed by his own countryman, and deported to Hava na, Cuba, which was a part of Spain, where he fell ill in the Morro Castle Dung eon, after either starving himself, or being starved, almost to death, an d died in a Spanish Military Hospital there.

Maxine Wilson, Rt. 1, Clinton MO, (816)696-2239

!midwife - 1880 census, Jackson Co., FL, reel 51620, pt. 973, page 2

!book - LEAVES OF THE TREES, by H. Grady WILSON, Jr.,1989, pp 154-155 !marriage - Register of Overwharton Parish

!book - LEAVES OF THE TREES, by H. Grady WILSON, Jr.,1989, pp 154-155

barrel maker of Nancemond VA

acording to his sister, Irene McCain Wilson, Weldon's name was Seabor n, as he was born at sea

!listed in Federal Census in home of Lona Dalpha Mercer Bowles + Plea sant Green Bowles, 1880, Jackson Co. FL-p 385-18-19 age listed 42

barrell maker

!1840 + 1850 census. Lee Co., GA

!marker erected by DAR, Jacob Mercer, Heard's County Dooley's Regimen t, Revolutionary War

!Revolutionary War, GA.; Sep 1777, entered the service of Continenta t Army, served off + on through 1779

died at home of his daughter, Rosamond Mercer Thompson

reared by uncle, Thomas MERCER(1648-1718).

chronology, 1837, born in League Co., GA; 1850 - 1852, moved from Geo rgia to FL; 1854, marries John C. BOWLES, Jackson Co., FL; 1860, living wi th her mother + father at Jackson Co., FL, was already married; 1880, lvg wi th son near her mother + brother in Jackson Co., FL; 1900, lvg with daughter -in-law in Freestone Co., TX. dau in law dreamed she died + sent her to Sam Ayr es in Mart TX, + she did die of pneumonia there shortly!!!buried old Baptist par t of Cem. !'LEAVES OF THE TREES', HISTORY OF THE SPEARS + ALLIED FAMILIES, 1989 , H. GRADY WILSON, JR., 4819 ROCK SPRINGS RD., LITHONIA, GA 30058(404)981-4935 , PP 81-153 !FAMILY RECORDS OF DON W. MERCER, BOBBIE PINSON + FRANKIE BARKER

!had land in Pulaski County, GA by 1815