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Nella Bowles

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · 1888–1889

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Nella Bowles

ArkansasProbable

Daughter of William Anderson Bowles · 1888–1889

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 65002833, read 26 October 2026 (text only), marked “Twin”, with the same birth date as Ella and both parents linked S2455. What is weak: the memorial is a compiled source and its photograph has not been read; its death place, Potosi, conflicts with the family being in Arkansas in 1889.

Evidence: Her Find a Grave memorial (65002833, read as text) gives the same birth date as her twin Ella, 14 December 1888 at Cass, Arkansas, her death on 10 February 1889, and links William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles as her parents (S2455). Weak or missing: Find a Grave is a compiled source. Its death place, Potosi, Texas, conflicts with the family being in Arkansas until 1892 (S1632). Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Nella Bowles was born on 14 December 1888 at Cass, Franklin County, Arkansas, the twin of Ella, and died on 10 February 1889, less than two months old. Her Find a Grave memorial links her to her parents, William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock Bowles S2455. The memorial gives her death place as Potosi, Texas, but the family moved to Taylor County only in 1892, by her mother’s obituary S1632, so the Potosi stone may be a family marker. Where she died is left open.

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); the tree leaves her death place blank.

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Daughter of William Anderson Bowles and Iona Belle Brock.

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2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

S1632Obituary of Mrs. Iona Belle Bowles — Abilene Reporter-News, 5 July 1947, p. 1; burial report 8 July 1947, p. 5. Newspapers.com pages 761535105 and 761535181. Read from the newspaper text (OCR); the page images are not yet read by eye. Died Friday 4 July at the home of her son John W. Bowles near Potosi; born 31 December 1865 near London, Kentucky; married 24 December 1880 at Taft, Arkansas; to Taylor County in 1892. Names nine daughters, six sons, one brother (John Brock, Louisiana) and three sisters (Ada Estes, Mary Stansburry, Ida Stansburry). No parent is named.
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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