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BOWES Dennis^{[1, 2]}
1830 - 1923

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• Birth	1830	Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland   [1, 3]
  	John R. Bowes said he was born in 1831, but the 1880 U.S. Census said about 1834 and that he was age 46 in 1880. The headstone says 1830. I am going with the headstone. I may have made a mistake about the census record.
  Gender	Male
  OCCU	Bartender, Cairo, Illinois  [2]
  OCCU	Mason, south of Hannibal, Missouri  [2]
  RELI	St. Mary's Church
  	Address: Jamesville, New York
  	http://www.stmarysjamesville.org/history.html
  RESI	1859	Hennepin, Minnesota   [2]
  	"It seems that around 1859 he and at least one of his brothers decided to homestead around Hennepin County in Minnesota, just above St. Anthony's Falls. They stayed six months and built their cabins. There were Sioux Indians there who seemed friendly, but while the brothers were visiting their sister in Milwaukee, they massacred a hundred and seventy people, so the brothers never returned [to the homestead]."
  RESI	1880	Dewitt, Onondaga, New York   [3]
  	Page 1. Stated age 46. Head of household. Born in Ireland. Stone mason.
  _MILT	"Dennis was drafted into the Confederate Army and served for twenty-nine months. On cavalry patrol one night, he was picked up by an Illinois outfit and thrown into an old barn with Union soldiers. He recognized a man by the name of Reagan, a former neighbor in Ireland, who told him to get out for, otherwise, he would be sent to prison in Chicago. At dusk, they loosened the base of the barn wall, and when the guards were in front he escaped. While disappearing over a railroad siding, he was shot at. He reached Cairo, Illinois wearing Reagan's coat and hat and went to his former boarding house where he got his civilian clothes. Then he became a bartender there because he would have been drafted if he had returned to Jamesville." Some detail here may not be accurate, or there are no records of his service anywhere, because I cannot find a Dennis Bowes in a Confederate cavalry in the National Park Service's database of Civil War soldiers. There are two by the name of Dennis Bowes, but their details really conflict with the story here. While the database is considered a complete list of soldiers on record, I do not know whether many soldiers fought for whom no record exists. In support of the story, the military at Cairo was charged with transporting Confederate prisoners to Chicago, and Cairo had a street of saloons to serve the large union military presence there. http://www.angelfire.com/wi/wisconsin42nd/cairo.html   [2]
  Died	1923	Jamesville, New York   [4]
  	John R. Bowes handwritten records state he died in 1912, but according to the headstones his wife died in 1912. It's possible I mis-entered John's notes.
  Person ID	I238	Bowes and Bigelow | Michael Bowes (1790)
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	BOWE Michael,   b. Abt 1790, County Kilkenny, Ireland ,   d. 1881, Jordan, Onondaga, New York
  Mother	BROPHY Elizabeth,   b. 04 Apr 1793, St. John's Parish, County Kilkenny, Ireland ,   d. Bef 1853, County Kilkenny, Ireland
  Married	30 Nov 1820	"Grace", St. John's Parish, County Kilkenny, Ireland
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	QUINLIN Mary,   b. 1831, Ireland ,   d. 1912, Onondaga, New York
  Married	New York
  Notes	A double relationship between the Bowes and the Quinlin families occurs between Daniel Quinlin's marriage to Mary Bowes and Dennis Bowes's marriage to Daniel Quinlin's sister Mary. [2]
  Children	1. BOWES Elizabeth A.,   b. 1866, Jamesville?, New York ,   d. 1882   2. BOWES Dennis F.,   b. 1868, Jamesville?, New York ,   d. 1907   3. BOWES Daniel,   b. 1870, Jamesville?, New York ,   d. 1921   4. BOWES John J.,   b. 1874, Jamesville [?], New York ,   d. 06 May 1956   5. BOWES Michael > 6. BOWES Marie,   b. 1879, Jamesville?, New York ,   d. 1964
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F150	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Event Birth - 1830 - Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, Ireland RESI - Page 1. Stated age 46. Head of household. Born in Ireland. Stone mason. - 1880 - Dewitt, Onondaga, New York Married - - New York  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Headstones		Bowes Marker at Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Fayetteville, Onondaga, New York This was most certainly carved by Dennis Bowes, the mason and father of the family at this cemetery.
  		Headstone of Dennis Bowes (1830-1923) Status: Located

  
  

• Sources

  [SR27] John R. Bowes Handwritten Records. [SR43] "The Glover and Bowes Families", By Margaret E. Bowes (1912 - 1987). Footnotes and appendices by M. H. Bowes.. [S16] U.S. Census 1880. [S20] Immaculate Conception Cemetery Headstone, Fayetteville, New York.