LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO 
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File Contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Name: K. Stevens
Email: 67buick@adelphia.net
Date: May 14, 2004
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JOHN BOWLES – and Sarah McIntyre were married in Elizabeth township, Lawrence 
county, Ohio, August 19, 1848.  He was born in Tazewell county, Virginia, November 12, 1826.  
His wife is a native of this county, born November 26, 1825.  Their children are: Becca 
Jane, born April 15, 1849, died August 3, 1849; John, May 11, 1850, resides at Rockrun 
Furnace, Cherokee county, Alabama; Susan, April 2, 1852, resides in this township; 
Catherine, March 10, 1854, resides at Center Furnace, Ohio; Martha Ellen, July 9, 1856, 
resides in the State of Oregon; Elizabeth, April 9, 1858, resides in this township; Lucy, 
June 13, 1860, resides in Elizabeth township; Jacob, May 11, 1862, died October 27, 1866.  
Jacob and Susan (Corder) Bowles are the parents of the subject of this sketch.  They came 
to this county in 1832.  Both deceased.  Jacob Bowles was a soldier in the wars of 1812 and 
1861.  The parents of Mrs. Bowles, Joseph and Lucinda (Pine) McIntyre, settled in this 
county in 1821.  Both deceased.  Mr. Bowles was a soldier in the late war.  He enlisted in the 
three month’s service, in Company E, 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in June, 1862.  He 
reenlisted in Company F, 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He reenlisted as a veteran in the 
same regiment in 1864.  Under Sherman’s command he marched to Kenesaw Mountain, where 
he was wounded in the left arm, June 18, 1864.  His arm had to be taken off at the shoulder 
on the same day.  Gangrene set in, and he remained in the hospital until November 15, 1864, 
when he received his discharge and returned home.  Mr. Bowles is engaged in farming.  
Address, Powellsville, Scioto county, Ohio.