Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.

THE BOWMAR FAMILY has been in Kentucky since 1779 and in Woodford since
1789.  Robert Bowmar emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky in 1779, bringing
his family.  He settled at Bowman's Station, Mercer County, and remained
in that county until 1789, when he removed to Woodford.  During this time
he participated in the warfare with the Indians, and was in the bloody
battle of Blue Licks in August, 1782, and was one of the survivors of that
battle.  Herman Bowmar, son of Robert Bowmar and his wife, Chloe Collins,
was one of the earliest magistrates in Woodford; served as sheriff (or
high sheriff as it was then known) and was elected for two terms to the
State Senate.  He served in three campaigns against the Indians, to wit:
in 1791, 1793 and 1794. In the last named year he was brigade major
(adjutant) of Gen. Robert Todd's brigade, which took part in the decisive
battle of Fallen Timbers, near Toledo, Ohio, Anthony Wayne being in chief
command.  He was married early in life to Miss Frances Adams, with whom
he lived happily for over a half a century.  He died in 1855, aged
eighty-six years, his wife having preceded him by one year.  Two of their
children survive: Dr. Joseph H. D. Bowmar of Vicksburg, Miss., and Mrs.
E. Jane Barr of Jackson, Miss.  Herman Bowmar, Jr., son of Herman Bowmar
and his wife, Frances Adams, was born April 14, 1805, and died July 23,
1863.  He was a talented lawyer and noted wit and humorist; was clerk of
the Woodford County Court from 1835 to 1862 inclusive.  He was a popular
Masonic lecturer and orator, and was orator of the day when the corner
stone of the Masonic Temple was laid at Lexington in 1842.  An extended
sketch of his life was written by Thomas F. Marshall, and appeared in
serial numbers in the Lexington Observer and Reporter.  He was married to
Mrs. Emeline Tarrant, nee Tunis, who died in 1848, leaving him with three
children.  Of these, Robert, the youngest was a Confederate soldier in
Capt. W. C. P. Breckinridge's company of Morgan's command, and was killed
in 1862.  Joseph M., the eldest son, was in the same command, adjutant of
the Fifth Kentucky.  He was seriously wounded July 4, 1863, at Green River
Bridge; was a prisoner twenty-one months; was exchanged in March, 1865,
and served to the end of the war.  He is married and has four children;
is cashier of a bank at Decatur, Tex.  Daniel Mayes Bowmar, second son of
Herman Bowmar, Jr., has been for five years editor and proprietor of the
Woodford Sun.  He was formerly extensively engaged in the fire insurance
business in Chicago for many years.

Bowmar Collins Adams Barr Marshall Tarrant Tunis
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Mercer-KY MS TX VA

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