McCurtain County News
Saturday December 13, 1919
Captain John R.* Bowles Died
Sunday at His Home at Ashdown, Arkansas
Ashdown- December 10---
Captain John R.* Bowles, aged 78, died Sunday at his home in this city. He was a veteran of the Civil War and had lived here for the last 20 years. He and his wife, who survives him, recently observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
In addition to his wife he is survived by three sons, Ivy Bowles, of Beaumont, Texas; C.I. Bowles, and J.R. Bowles, both of Ashdown, and one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Franklin.
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Memorial Link: Ashdown Cemetery, Ashdown Arkansas, Little River County
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5388230/john-wood-bowles
John Wood Bowles
wife: Sarah Jordan Bowles
Children: Iver Moten Bowles, Charles I. Bowles, John R. Bowles, & Leila Ann Bowles Franklin
Newspaper obit states his middle initial as "R" but I believe his middle name was Wood according to death and census records.
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