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Alvin Bluford Bowles

Son of William Anderson Bowles · 1905

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Alvin Bluford Bowles

TexasProbable

Son of William Anderson Bowles · 1905

Parents: William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock
Sources: 2

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Research status: PROBABLE Probable confirm or correct →: as a child of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock. Evidence: Find a Grave memorial 65002518, read 26 October 2026 (text only), with both parents linked S2455; it fits the 1910 count of children who had died S186. What is weak: the memorial is a compiled source; no Texas birth or death certificate has been found, and the memorial states no birth or death place.

Evidence: His Find a Grave memorial (65002518, read as text) gives his birth on 21 June 1905 and death five days later, burial in Potosi Cemetery, and links William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles as his parents (S2455). Weak or missing: Find a Grave is a compiled source, no Texas birth or death certificate has been found, and the memorial states no places. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Alvin Bluford Bowles was born on 21 June 1905 and died on 26 June 1905, five days old. He is buried in Potosi Cemetery, Taylor County, Texas, where the family was then living, and his Find a Grave memorial links him to his parents, William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles S2455. He was born between his brother Robert Anthony Bowles (1904) and his sister Lily Olene Bowles (1907).

Burial2026

History of this card. 26 Oct 2026

card added: he entered the family tree on 26 Oct as a Probable son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock (PA-1026E), from his Find a Grave memorial (S2455, new).

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Son of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock.

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S1861910 U.S. Federal Census — William A. Bowles household, Justice Precinct 7, Taylor County, Texas. Ancestry record 123373807; ED 268, sheet 2A, enumerated 16 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. William A., 52; Iona, mother of 18 children born, 15 living; twelve children at home. The farm is owned and mortgaged, on the Abilene–Potosi road. 18 children born, 15 living, in Iona's own answer. William's 52 supports 1858 over the death certificate's 1856. Clara L. H., 18, born Arkansas, may be the L. Jean of 1940 [S185]; not assumed.
S2455Find a Grave memorials 65002624, 65002833 and 65002518 — Ella, Nella and Alvin Bluford Bowles. Read 26 October 2026 (PA-1026E), text only — the headstone photographs were not read. Probable Ella Bowles, born 14 December 1888, Cass, Franklin County, Arkansas, died 24 May 1904, Potosi, Taylor County, Texas, aged 15, Potosi Cemetery, “Twin”; Nella Bowles, born 14 December 1888, Cass, died 10 February 1889, death place given as Potosi, “Twin”; Alvin Bluford Bowles, born 21 June 1905, died 26 June 1905, aged 5 days, Potosi Cemetery. Each memorial links William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles as parents, and Iona’s own memorial (S23) lists all three among her children. A compiled source. Nella’s Potosi death place conflicts with the family being in Arkansas until 1892.

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