According to the book "The Bowies and their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History" by Walter Worthington Bowie, Rezin Bowie was the son of James Bowie b. 1739 in Prince George County, MD. James Bowie left Maryland for South Carolina as a young man and met and married Miss Jeanne Mirabeau there. Their firstborn twin sons, Rezin and Rhesa Bowie were born in S. Carolina about 1762.
It also states that Rezin Bowie served in the Revolutionary War as a mere boy, was wounded at the storming of Savannah, and met his wife Elve Ap Catesby Jones who was his nurse, while recuperating. He owned a plantation in Burke County, Georgia, and removed to Elliott Springs, Tennessee in 1791. The remainder of his children were born there. In 1800 he moved to Louisiana with his brothers Rhesa and David. He spent the remainder of his life there.
It also states that Rezin Bowie served in the Revolutionary War as a mere boy, was wounded at the storming of Savannah, and met his wife Elve Ap Catesby Jones who was his nurse, while recuperating. He owned a plantation in Burke County, Georgia, and removed to Elliott Springs, Tennessee in 1791. The remainder of his children were born there. In 1800 he moved to Louisiana with his brothers Rhesa and David. He spent the remainder of his life there.
According to the book "The Bowies and their Kindred: A Genealogical and Biographical History" by Walter Worthington Bowie, Rezin Bowie was the son of James Bowie b. 1739 in Prince George County, MD. James Bowie left Maryland for South Carolina as a young man and met and married Miss Jeanne Mirabeau there. Their firstborn twin sons, Rezin and Rhesa Bowie were born in S. Carolina about 1762.
It also states that Rezin Bowie served in the Revolutionary War as a mere boy, was wounded at the storming of Savannah, and met his wife Elve Ap Catesby Jones who was his nurse, while recuperating. He owned a plantation in Burke County, Georgia, and removed to Elliott Springs, Tennessee in 1791. The remainder of his children were born there. In 1800 he moved to Louisiana with his brothers Rhesa and David. He spent the remainder of his life there.
It also states that Rezin Bowie served in the Revolutionary War as a mere boy, was wounded at the storming of Savannah, and met his wife Elve Ap Catesby Jones who was his nurse, while recuperating. He owned a plantation in Burke County, Georgia, and removed to Elliott Springs, Tennessee in 1791. The remainder of his children were born there. In 1800 he moved to Louisiana with his brothers Rhesa and David. He spent the remainder of his life there.
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Married March 8, 1782 Burke County, Ga.
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