William Edgar Bowers was born in Knoxville on 15 January 1894 and died in Knoxville on 21 September 1963. Mom said for as long as she could remember Paw Bowers had the nicest silver gray hair and she thought that he may have played the harmonica. She said, "He was a cute little ole feller." Knox County marriage records (No. 244) show Willie Bowers (18) married Carrie May Stalsworth (18) on 30 March 1912. Frank Rose was a witness. Uncle Art Bowers told me on 18 June 2012 that his dad was known as "Willie" and that is what he always heard his Grandmaw Bowers (Nancy A. Black Bowers) call him. He also said that he heard that his dad always voted Democrat and that neither his father nor mother ever drove a car or owned one. According to mom Edgar married once before and then left or took off and the women died of T.B. or pneumonia. Mom said, "He got married and just went off, just skipped town or something. When he came back she had pneumonia or something and her daddy wouldn't let him see her because of the way he had treated her. We had a picture of the two of them that hung in our woodshed back home, but I don't know what happened to it." Carrie appears to have been born in 1893 to John Franklin and Almeda Smith Stalsworth and died on 29 July 1913. FamilySearch.org has Carrie listed as Carrie May Bocoers.

W.E. Bowers married second Jerusa Edith Grant in Knoxville on 21 March 1914 by Squire Sellers. He was 20 and she was 18.Witnesses to the marriage were Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Hill/Maynard Hill and Mollie Walker Hill. Mollie was Edith's aunt. (License #569, Book 13, Page 129) Granny Bowers was born in Grainger County/Liberty Hill on 25 September 1898 and died in Chattanooga at the home of her son Arthur Richard Bowers Thursday morning about 8:00 in her sleep on 20 September 1990. She and Wm. E. both are buried at Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville. He had a brother, Edward who was born on 2 May 1902 and died on 13 February 1988. Ed married Maude Palmer (23 Mar 1901-Mar 1981 age 79-80) on 24 December 1921 in Knoxville (License #1655, Book 15, Page 367) and two sisters. Mae /May Bowers married Frank Rose on 16 October 1910 in Knoxville (License #916, Book 12, Page 138) Uncle Art Bowers said that his Uncle Frank Rose was a Top Sergeant during WWI and came back with lung problems from breathing the poisonous gas. He had his uniform displayed, helmet, coat, riding breeches and all and had a real nice, ornate pool table with elaborately carved legs. Art wondered what became of all that stuff.

Mom said Ed and Maude were over the TVA & I Fair. Arlone Bowers was born March 1898 was divorced, and living at 502 Grainger Street when she died at the age of 20 on 13 April 1918. She married Earl Bright on 25 September 1915.