Ella Bowles

Ella Bowles

ArkansasProbable

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · 1888–1904

Parents

William Anderson Bowles & Iona Belle Brock

Sources

2

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE Probable confirm or correct →: as a child of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock. Evidence: Find a Grave memorial 65002624, read 26 October 2026 (text only), marked “Twin”, 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, its headstone photograph has not been read, and no census or vital record naming her has been found.

Evidence: Her Find a Grave memorial (65002624, read as text) gives her birth on 14 December 1888 at Cass, Franklin County, Arkansas, her death on 24 May 1904 at Potosi, marks her a twin, and links William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles as her parents (S2455); it fits the 18 born and 15 living of the 1910 census (S186). Weak or missing: Find a Grave is a compiled source and its headstone photograph has not been read. No census or vital record naming her has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Ella Bowles was born on 14 December 1888 at Cass, Franklin County, Arkansas, a twin, with her sister Nella. She died on 24 May 1904 at Potosi, Taylor County, Texas, aged 15, and is buried in Potosi Cemetery. Her Find a Grave memorial links her to her parents, William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles S2455. Her death fits her mother’s return in the 1910 census, 18 children born and 15 living S186: Nella, Ella and their brother Alvin Bluford would be the three who had died by then.

Burial2026

History of this card. 26 Oct 2026

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

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents—

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock.

Documents and record images for the Bowles family →

In the record Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings

1. 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.
2. 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.