History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
608.

PIUS J. BOWLDS, one and one-half miles northeast of Knottsville, was 
born in this precinct, April 6, 1827, and is a son of James Bowlds 
(deceased), a native of Nelson County, Ky., who came to this county in 
1826.  At the age of fourteen years his mother died, and the family was 
broken up.  Pius learned the carpenter's trade, at which he has worked, 
for the most part, for the past twenty-five years.  He gave especial 
attention to bridge-building for some time, and was six years in the 
employ of the L. & N. R. R. Co., engaged in that work.  He was married 
Jan. 31, 1876, to Miss Margaret Payne, daughter of Stephen Payne, of 
this precinct.  They have had three children, two living--Thomas B. and 
Martha P.  Mr. Bowlds served four years in the late war, in Company A, 
First Kentucky Cavalry, under General Wheeler.  In the early part of his 
life, like many other boys, he was obliged to go barefoot.  He was eight 
years old when he got his first pair of shoes, and he walked one and 
one-half miles through the snow in his bare feet to get them.  R. H. 
Hazel made them for him for 25 cents.  Mr. B. is a member of the 
Catholic church and the Abstinence Society.

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