_Our BOWMAN Family Line

_Johannes Bowman, abt. 1722 - Elizabeth Rueger
Maria Mary Bowman, Pennsylvania - Johannes Keller
Benjamin Keller - 1764, Virginia, Rosannah Leinbach
Rheaboam Keller - abt. 1825, Tennessee, Melvina Staggs
Jacob Nathaniel Keller - 1860, Indiana, Lueanna Green
Leona Keller - 1887, Illinois, Robert D. Gifford
Martha Gifford - 1917, Tuckerman, Arkansas
Mary Jo Gifford -  1937, Leachville, Arkansas, Luther Goodman
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Descendants of Johannes Jacob Bowman

Generation No. 1

JOHANNES JACOB BOWMAN (Bauman) was born Abt. 1722, and died October 29, 1778 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He married ELIZABETH RUEGER August 11, 1740 in New Holland, Lancaster County, Virginia. She was born Bet. 1710 - 1720 in Germany or Switzerland, and died Bet. 1783 - 1799 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

About 1768 Jacob Bowman purchased 200 acres located on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, from Jonathan and Mary Langdon. Jacob and Elizabeth sold this land in 1769 to Frederick Stoner. Jacob also bought lot #84 in the town of Woodstock. When the settlement of his estate was made on 30 October 1779, his land consisted of 60 acres on the North Fork of the Shenandoah and the lot #84 in Woodstock. He always lived in Shenandoah County, near Woodstock.

Children of JOHANNES BOWMAN and ELIZABETH RUEGER are:
         i. MARIA MARY BOWMAN, b. Bet. 1745 - 1750, Pennsylvania; d. 1810.
        ii. MARIA BARBARA BOWMAN, b. 1741, Conewego, York, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
       iii. JOHN JACOB BOWMAN, b. May 15, 1744, Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. May 21, 1861, Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee.

Generation No. 2

MARIA MARY BOWMAN (JOHANNES JACOB) was born Bet. 1745 - 1750 in Pennsylvania, and died 1810. She married JOHANNES KELLER 1761 in Virginia, son of GEORGE KELLER SR. and BARBARA HOTTEL. He was born June 12, 1736 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died November 04, 1800 in Greene County, Tennessee.

Children of MARIA BOWMAN andJOHANNES KELLER are:
         i. GEORGE KELLER.
        ii. BENJAMIN KELLER, b. Abt. 1764, Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. May 08, 1842, Parke County, Indiana; m. ROSANNAH LEINBACH, June 17, 1805, Green County, Tennessee; b. Abt. 1775; d. May 08, 1842.  Benjamin Keller was listed in 1840 census as living in Sugar Creek Township, Parke County, Indiana
        iii. ELIZABETH KELLER, b. Bef. 1770; d. Aft. 1785; m. FREDERICK PARROTT, May 17, 1785; b. Bef. 1770; d. Aft. 1785.
        iv. DANIEL KELLER, b. June 26, 1773, Shenandoah, Tennessee; d. August 30, 1840, Greene County, Tennessee; m. CHRISTINA LAMOM.
         v. MARY KELLER, b. Bef. 1774; d. Abt. 1843; m. (2) DAVID M. KEY.
        vi. JACOB KELLER, b. Abt. 1780, Greene, Tennessee; d. Aft. 1806; m. ANGELINE LINDSEY, February 06, 1806, Shenandoah, Virginia; b. Bef. 1791; d. Aft. 1815.

MARIA BARBARA BOWMAN (JOHANNES JACOB) was born 1741 in Conewego, York, Pennsylvania, and died Abt. 1801 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. She married (1) JOHN SIX Abt. 1760 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. She married (2) CHRISTIAN FUNKHOUSER, son of JACOB FUNKHOUSER and VERENA. He was born 1740 in Stoney Creek, Shenandoah County, Virginia, and died 1793 in Stoney Creek, Shenandoah County, Virginia. She married (1) JOHN SIX Abt. 1760 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Children of MARIA BOWMAN and JOHN SIX are:
        iii. JOHN SIX JR., b. Abt. 1761.
        iv. ISAAC SIX, d. 1829, Shenandoah County, Virginia; m. ELIZABETH DELLINGER, December 22, 1795, Shenandoah County, Virginia.
         v. ELIZABETH SIX, m. ADAM POKE.
        vi. CATHERINE SIX, m. WILLIAM STONER, June 06, 1791, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Children of MARIA BOWMAN and CHRISTIAN FUNKHOUSER are:
         i. DANIEL FUNKHOUSER, b. Abt. 1776, Shenandoah County, Virginia; m. MARY WHILSER, 1799.
        ii. BARBARA FUNKHOUSER, d. Abt. 1801, Shenandoah County, Virginia; m. GOTTLIEB ZINCK.

Gottlieb Zinck lived at one time on Pughs Run. By July 1766, Gottlieb Zinck acquired 294 acres along both sides of Stony Creek, about fifteen miles south of the Funkhousers' home on Tumbling Run Stony Creek runs from the mountains west of Edinburg through that town and into the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

JOHN JACOB BOWMAN (JOHANNES JACOB) was born May 15, 1744 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and died May 21, 1861 in Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH KELLER November 25, 1767 in Frederick County, Virginia, daughter of GEORGE KELLER SR.and BARBARA HOTTEL. She was born Abt. 1745 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for JOHN JACOB BOWMAN:
In 1779 young Jacob II received 203 acres from his father-in-law, George Keller. He later sells this land while living in Greene County, Tennessee

Monday 29 Oct 1831 Min's 16 p. 419—— An inventory of the personal estate of Jacob Bowman dec'd. was returned by the administrator of said and ordered to be recorded and is as follows: "A memorandem or Inventory of the personal goods and effects of Jacob Bowman late of the County of Greene and State of Tennessee deceased, taken the 21st May 1831. Towit, Seven man slaves towit, Daniel, Thomas, William, Adam, Elijan, Alexander, John. Six women slaves towit, Hannah, Phebe, Mime, Grace Lucia,Ilerena. Six head of the horse kind, ten wagons, five pair of horse gears. thirty three head of cattle, small and grown ones, fifty three head of hogs, pigs and sows, forty geese, thirty ducks, three bar share plows, five shovel and bull tohgue plows, two sickles, two mattocks, one sprouting hoe , one foot adze, one pick axe, one cross cut saw, one broad axe, one handsaw, two drawing knives, three screw augers, and one barrel auger, three chisels, nine corn hoes, eleven choping axes, five guns, two set of dog irons, one fire shovel, one dirt shovel, two dung forks, four hoops of old wagon tires, one grind stone, three big kettles, one small brass kettle, one brass skillet, one copper tea kettle, five dutch ovens, eight pots, two skillets, one baking iron, three scythes, two thetstones, one still and six tubs, one barrel and three kegs, two weaving looms, one pair warping cards,a set of spools, five big wheels, one bearough, one cupboard, five tables and one candlestand, five spinning wheels and one reel, one chest, two mans saddles, one wornan saddle, two sets of measures, thirteen pot hooks, one windmill, one cutting box, one carrying knife and steel, eight sides of leather, ten tubs, three pieces of apper (upper ?) leather, one box with a slider, three silver watches, four Bee stands, five pair of steelyards, one pair of gold ? * weighing scales and some weights, two hammers, one scythe anvill, one horse brush, four pewter basons, six pewter dishes, fifteen pewter plates, eight tin pans, five tin cups, one quart and pint, three tin buckets , two tin coffee pots, four glass bottles, one looking glass, five steel traps, two razors and case, five pair bedsteads, four beds and furniture, sixteen yards and three quarters of fulled woolen cloth, two old frying pans, one halter chain, two old plowshares, two smoothing irons, three flax hackles, and one craping hackle, an old English *Law Book and two Dictionaries, one pot, two iron wedges, one iron tooth harrow, one log chain, one dirk (?) and staff, one pellon (2) of dried buckskin.

Children of JOHN BOWMAN and ELIZABETH KELLER are:
        i. REBECCA BOWMAN, b. 1770, Virginia; d. October 1842, Platte County, Missouri; m. DANIEL LINEBAUGH, November 24, 1790, Shenandoah County, Virginia; b. February 13, 1767; d. September 1842, Platte County, Missouri.
       ii. JACOB BOWMAN, b. March 08, 1774; d. January 22, 1840.
      iii. NANCY BOWMAN, b. 1773; d. Abt. 1835.
      iv. HENRY BOWMAN, b. November 27, 1778; d. October 27, 1834.
       v. ELIZABETH BOWMAN, b. Abt. 1785; d. May 1866.
      vi. BARBARA ANN BOWMAN, b. Abt. 1780; d. Abt. 1865.
     vii. SAMUEL BOWMAN, b. December 31, 1787; d. June 11, 1849.
    viii. JOSEPH NEWMAN BOWMAN, b. February 15, 1801; d. 1872.
      ix. ABRAHAM BOWMAN, b. 1792, Shenandoah County, Virginia.