History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
667.

LEWIS A. BOWLDS was born in Fairfield, Nelson Co., Ky., Feb. 28, 1849. 
He was a son of James N. and Theresa R. (Clements) Bowlds, natives of
Kentucky and Maryland.  They had a family of ten children, Lewis A.
being the youngest.  He was but thirteen months old when his parents
came to Daviess County, Ky., and settled at Knottsville.  His father was
a wagon-maker and carpenter.  Lewis A. remained in Knottsville until
sixteen, when he worked on farms in Daviess County until eighteen, and
then went to Illinois and worked in Fairfield, Wayne County, a year;
then came back to Daviess County, and worked on a farm a year; then
returned to a farm near Fairfield, Wayne Co., Ill, and remained two
years; then returned to Daviess County, and remained until 1875, when he
took his mother to Fairfield, Ill., to her son, William Bowlds.  Lewis
A. returned to Daviess County in the winter of 1875.  Oct. 15, 1876, he
was married to Hattie A. Harrison, daughter of Elijah L. and Nancy
(Smith) Harrison.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bowlds settled on
the same farm where they now reside, in Masonville Precinct.  They are
members of the Baptist church.  They have had three sons--William L.,
born July 20, 1877; Fleming, born Jan. 28, 1880, and Charles, born April
6, 1882.  In politics he is a Democrat.

Bowlds Clements Harrison Smith 
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Fairfield-Nelson-KY MD Fairfield-Wayne-IL

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