William Wallace Bowling (abt. 1835 - 1899)

Born about 15 Jul 1835 in St. Mary's, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Ellen (Doleman) Bowling — married 18 Feb 1864 in Westmoreland, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Jul 1899 at about age 64 in Newport, Charles, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Private Wallace Bowling served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Aug 25, 1862
Mustered out: Jun 10, 1865
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Company A

Name: WILLIAM WALLACE BOWLING.

Born 1835 ST. MARY'S COUNTY, MARYLAND. ^[1]

Died 23 July 1899 NEWPORT, CHARLES, MARYLAND. Note: At his home near Newport.^[2]

Christening: Y. Note: MEMBER OF THE TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NEWPORT,. CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND.

Buried 24 July 1899 NEWPORT, CHARLES, MARYLAND.^[2] Note: TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH.^[3]

Note: CALLED WALLACE.

CIVIL WAR - PRIVATE, COMPANY A, SECOND MARYLAND INFANTRY, CONFEDERATE. ARMY. INSCRIBED ON HIS TOMBSTONE IS THE FOLLOWING COMMENT: "DUTY IS THE. SUBLIMEST WORD IN OUR LANGUAGE. DO YOUR DUTY IN ALL THINGS. YOU CANNOT. DO MORE. YOU SHOULD NEVER WISH TO DO LESS. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE".

GARTH E. BOWLING, JR. OF LA PLATA, AND JUDY BOWLING GOUGH OF WALDORF - BOTH OF THEM WERE FROM MARYLAND - WRITE IN THEIR SECOND NEWSLETTER:

"PART II. THE WALLACE BOWLING CLAN OF CHARLES COUNTY.

-BY GARTH BOWLING, JR.

WITH THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR IN 1861, WALLACE, FRANK, AND BEN. WERE FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION THAT WOULD EFFECT THEIR LIVES FOREVER. THEY HAD THREE CHOICES -- TO BE DRAFTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; PAY. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS TO BE EXEMPTED FROM THE. DRAFT, OR CROSS THE POTOMAC RIVER AND JOIN THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY. FORCES. ALL THREE BROTHERS CHOSE THE LATTER, AND ON AUGUST 25, 1862, IN. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, THEY ENLISTED IN COMPANY A, 2ND MARYLAND INFANTRY. REGIMENT.

THE THREE BOWLING BROTHERS FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE UNTIL THE MORNING OF. JULY 3, 1863, WHEN THEY CHARGED AGAINST OVERWHELMING NUMBERS NEAR A SMALL. PENNSYLVANIA TOWN CALLED GETTYSBURG. DURING THIS HEATED ENGAGEMENT,. WALLACE AND BEN WERE BOTH SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. WALLACE RECEIVED A FLESH. WOUND IN THE RIGHT THIGH AND A GUN SHOT WOUND IN THE FACE. BEN SUFFERED. ALSO FROM A GUN SHOT WOUND TO THE RIGHT THIGH AND A GRAND FRACTURE OF THE. FACIAL BONES. WHEN THE BRAVE MARYLANDERS FINALLY MADE THEIR ORDERLY. RETREAT, FRANK HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO LEAVE HIS TWO BLEEDING BROTHERS. BEHIND. FEDERAL RECORDS SHOW THAT WALLACE AND BEN WERE CAPTURED ON JULY 3.

WHEN WORD REACHED ST. MARY'S COUNTY OF THE MANY CASUALTIES AT. GETTYSBURG, THE 60 YEAR OLD CHARLES BOWLING WASTED NO TIME IN STRIKING. OUT FOR GETTYSBURG TO VISIT HIS WOUNDED SONS IN THE HOSPITAL. JOHN F. DENT [SPEAKER OF THE MARYLAND HOUSE OF DELEGATES] WROTE THE FOLLOWING IN. HIS DIARY DATED AUGUST 2, 1863:

"SUNDAY. VERY WARM. SERVICE AT ALL SAINTS (EPISCOPAL CHURCH). C. BOWLING RETURNED FROM A VISIT TO HIS SONS WALLACE AND BENTON WOUNDED AND. PRISONERS AT GETTYSBURG. WALLACE NEARLY WELL. BENTON IMPROVING BUT NOT. ABLE TO WALK. BROUGHT HOME THE MINNIE BALL (BULLET) CUT FROM BENTON'S. LEG. LOOKED OVER THE BATTLEFIELD. WOUNDED CONFEDERATES WELL SUPPLIED. HAD A HOUSEFULL OF COMPANY TO DAY.".

"(PART III). THE WALLACE BOWLING CLAN OF CHARLES COUNTY.

-BY GARTH BOWLING, JR.

WALLACE AND BEN BOWLING BEGAN THE LONG, SLOW PROCESS OF RECOVERING. FROM THEIR WOUNDS. THEY WERE NOW PRISONERS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND. WERE KEPT IN A FIELD HOSPITAL AT GETTYSBURG FOR SEVERAL MONTHS FOLLOWING. THE BATTLE. ON OCTOBER 14, THEY ENTERED THE U.S. GENERAL HOSPITAL IN. BALTIMORE. IN NOVEMBER, THEY WERE PAROLED AND SHIPPED TO CITY POINT,. VIRGINIA, WHERE THEY WERE RELEASED IN A PRISONER EXCHANGE UNDER A FLAG OF. TRUCE.

THE TWO BROTHERS WERE FORTUNATE TO BE RELEASED, BUT THEY WERE STILL. SUFFERING FROM THEIR WOUNDS. THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY SENT TO A CONFEDERATE. HOSPITAL IN RICHMOND. BEN REMAINED IN THE HOSPITAL SIX MORE MONTHS AND. WAS FINALLY FURLOUGHED IN JUNE, 1864. WALLACE'S WOUNDS, HOWEVER, WERE. HEALING FAIRLY WELL. WHILE IN THE HOSPITAL, HE MET A YOUNG NURSE FROM. VIRGINIA, NAMED ELLEN DOLEMAN. THE TWO BECAME ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER,. AND WHEN WALLACE WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL ON FURLOUGH, ELLEN. INVITED HIM TO COME HOME WITH HER TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE IN WESTMORELAND. COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

WALLACE WAS FURLOUGHED ON NOVEMBER 20, 1863, AND WENT HOME WITH. ELLEN. AS SHE HELPED HIM RECUPERATE, THEY FELL IN LOVE, AND ON FEBRUARY. 18, 1864, WILLIAM WALLACE BOWLING AND FRANCES ELLEN DOLEMAN WERE MARRIED. WALLACE WAS 28 AT THE TIME, AND ELLEN WAS 22. ELLEN'S PARENTS WERE. JACOB V. DOLEMAN AND LIANNA BAYNE DOLEMAN. ELLEN HAD A YOUGER SISTER. NAMED ELIZABETH, AND A YOUNGER BROTHER NAMED JAKE, WHO FOUGHT WITH THE. 40TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY REGIMENT, C.S.A.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN TEMPTING FOR WALLACE TO STAY WITH HIS NEW BRIDE. AND NOT RETURN TO THE ARMY, BUT HE WAS A MAN OF HIGH PRINCIPLES, AND HE. BELIEVED IN WHAT THE CONFEDERACY WAS FIGHTING FOR. HIS GRANDFATHER HAD. HELPED THIS COUNTRY FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM AGAINST THE BRITISH IN THE WAR. OF 1812, AS A PRIVATE IN THE 45TH REGIMENT OF ST. MARY'S COUNTY. WALLACE'S ANCIENT ENGLISH ANCESTORS, SUCH AS ROBERT BOLLING, WHO FOUGHT. AT THE BATTLE OF TOWTON IN 1461 DURING THE WAR OF THE ROSES, WERE MEN WHO. HAD THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD EXTENDED HIS. LEAVE, WALLACE RETURNED TO THE ARMY ON MARCH 28, 1864.

AT LAST HE WAS REUNITED WITH HIS BROTHER, FRANK, AND TOGETHER THEY. FOUGHT WITH THE 2ND MARYLAND REGIMENT AT THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR IN. EARLY JUNE OF 1864. FROM AUGHST 1 TO SEPTEMBER 23, 1864, HE WAS IN THE. RICHMOND HOSPITAL AGAIN SUFFERING FROM "DEBILITY" AND "CONSTIPATIO.". ONCE AGAIN, FROM DECEMBER 8, 1864 TO MARCH 18, 1865, HE SPENT MOST, IF. NOT ALL, OF HIS TIME BACK IN THE HOSPITAL SUFFERING FROM "FEVER AND OTHER. AILMENTS. DURING THIS LAST STAY AT THE HOSPITAL, HIS MOTHER DIED ON. JANUARY 11, 1865, AT THE AGE OF 60.

FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, WALLACE JOINED FRANK IN THE TRENCHES AROUND. PETERSBURG. DURING THE BATTLE OF HATCHERS RUN, ON JUNE 2, BOTH BROTHERS. WERE CAPTURED. THEY WERE TAKEN TO CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, AND WERE SHIPPED. FROM THERE TO POINT LOOKOUT FEDERAL PRISON CAMP IN THIR OWN HOME COUNTY. DURING HIS TWO MONTH STAY AT POINT LOOKOUT FEDERAL PRISON, WALLACE'S. HEALTH BECAME WORSE. AFTER THE WAR, HE TOLD HIS CHILDREN STORIES ABOUT. HOW HE HAD TO EAT RATS WHILE IN PRISON. HE AND FRANK SIGNED AN OATH OF. ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND WERE RELEASED ON JUNE 10, 1865. BEN. HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY THE UNION FORCES AT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, AND WAS. PAROLED ON APRIL 19, 1865.

BEN AND FRANK RETURNED TO THEIR FATHER'S HOME IN MILESTOWN, AND. WALLACE WENT BACK TO HIS BRIDE IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. HE WAS. MET AT THE GATE BY HIS LITTLE GIRL, BELL, WHOM HE HAD NEVER SEEN. SHE. HAD BEEN CONCEIVED DURING HIS FURLOUGH, AND BORN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE. ARMY.

ON JANUARY 29, 1870, WALLACE'S FATHER DIED. BEN AND FRANK LIVED IN. MILESTOWN WITH THEIR UNMARRIED SISTER, MARY JANE, UNTIL HER DEATH ON. MARCH 14, 1886. BEN MARRIED HENRIETTA LOVE ON NOVEMBER 27, 1877. WHEN. HENRIETTA DIED, BEN REMARRIED MARGARET SLYE ON DECEMBER 15, 1885.

BEN AND FRANK RAN A GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORE IN MILESTOWN, CALLED. "T. B. BOWLING AND BROTHER." BEN ALSO OWNED A FLOUR MILL, RAN A FARM,. AND WAS APPOINTED AS THE LOCAL POSTMASTER IN 1876. BEN'S HEALTH ALSO. SUFFERED FROM HIS WAR EXPERIENCES. WHILE ONLY IN HIS MID 40'S, HE DIED. ON JULY 16, 1887. ON FEBRUARY 6, 1888, FRANK MARRIED BEN'S WIDOW. FRANK. DIED IN 1904, AND HE AND BEN ARE BURIED AT ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN. MILESTOWN."

"(PART IV). THE WALLACE BOWLING CLAN OF CHARLES COUNTY.

-BY GARTH BOWLING, JR.

AFTER THE WAR, WALLACE AND ELLEN MADE THEIR HOME IN WESTMORELAND. COUNTY ON THE FARM THAT BELONGED TO ELLEN'S MOTHER. LIANNA BAYNE. DOLEMAN, ELLEN'S MOTHER, DIED, AND LEFT THE FARM TO HER THREE CHILDREN. ELLEN INHERITED THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE FARM, WHICH AMOUNTED TO ABOUT. 86 ACRES. ELLEN'S SISTER, MRS. JACOB HOLMES, AND HER BROTHER, JACOB V. DOLEMAN, JR., INHERITED THE UPPER PORTION OF THE FARM. WALLACE FARMED. FOR A LIVING, WITH THE PRIMARY CROP BEING CORN. ELLEN GAVE BIRTH TO. EIGHT CHILDREN: ANNIE BELL, CHARLES, WASHINGTON, ROBERT, FRANK O.,. SHAKESPEARE, THOMAS WALLACE, AND ABBIE. ALL OF THE BOYS HAD NICKNAMES. CHARLES WAS "CAPTAIN CHARLIE;" WASH WAS "GENERAL GEORGE;" SHAKESPEARE WAS. "JAKE;" FRANK WAS "CAPTAIN DICK;" AND TOM WAS "ZIP.".

WHEN ABBIE WAS VERY YOUNG, ELLEN DIED ON JULY 22, 1887, OF WHAT WAS. THEN CALLED THE "BLOODY FLUX." SHE WAS ONLY 45. BELL TOOK CARE OF HER. BABY SISTER UNTIL ABBIE WAS GROWN. BELL ALSO TOOK CARE OF LENA HOLMES. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, WHO WAS ELLEN'S SISTER.

THE FIRST CHILD TO LEAVE HOME WAS THE OLDEST BOY, CHARLES. HE WAS. IN HIS LATE TEENS WHEN HE RAN AWAY FROM HOME AND LANDED AT LEONARDTOWN. HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO BOB HALL SO THAT HIS UNCLES, BEN AND FRANK, WHO. LIVED IN THE AREA, WOULD NOT FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS AND SEND HIM BACK. HOME. AFTER A WHILE, CHARLES MET A MAN NAMED JOHN KEY, WHO CONVINCED HIM. TO COME TO INDIANTOWN FARM NEAR CHAPTICO, AND WORK FOR THE KEYS AS A. HIRED HAND. CHARLES EVENTUALLY SENT A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER, WASH,. INVITING HIM TO COME AND JOIN HIM. WASH SHOWED THE LETTER TO HIS FATHER,. AND WALLACE TOLD WASH TO GO TO ST. MARY'S COUNTY AND BRING CHARLES BACK. HOME. WASH WENT TO ST. MARY'S COUNTY, BUT DECIDED TO STAY WITH HIS. BROTHER AND WORK FOR THE KEYS. THE TWO BROTHERS EVENTUALLY MOVED TO. NEWPORT, IN CHARLES COUNTY, AND BOUGHT A LARGE FARM TOGETHER, KNOWN AS. CHARLESBOROUGH HILLS. CHARLES EVENTUALLY BOUGHT OUT WASH'S SHARE, AND. WASH PURCHASED A FARM OF HIS OWN NEAR ALLEN'S FRESH, ON THE WICOMICO RIVER.

WITH THEIR MOTHER DEAD, AND THEIR TWO OLDEST BROTHERS GONE, IT WAS. NOT LONG BEFORE THE REST OF THE CHILDREN CAME TO MARYLAND. ROBERT POPE. BOWLING, THE THIRD OLDEST SON, WNT TO NEW JERSEY AND WORKED ON A DAIRY. FARM. IT WAS IN NEW JERSEY THAT HE MET HIS WIFE. HE EVENTUALLY CAME TO. CHARLES COUNTY AND BOUGHT A FARM NEAR NEWPORT. BELL, THE OLDEST CHILD,. TOOK ON THE ROLE OF MOTHER IN THE FAMILY, AFTER ELLEN'S DEATH. BELL. MOVED TO THE BALTIMORE AREA, AND FRANK, SHAKESPEARE, TOM, AND ABBIE WENT. WITH HER. BELL MARRIED AND LIVED IN THE BALTIMORE AREA ALL HER LIFE. FRANK INITIALLY WORKED ALONG THE BALTIMORE WATER FRONT, BUT EVENTUALLY. CAME TO CHARLES COUNTY AND BOUGHT A FARM NEAR ALLEN'S FRESH, WHICH. BORDERED WASH'S FARM. SHAKESPEARE WENT TO CANADA AND SERVED IN THE. MERCHANT MARINES. HE MARRIED A CANADIAN AND OWNED LAND IN THAT COUNTRY. HE CAME BACK TO CHARLES COUNTY TOWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE AND BOUGHT A. FARM IN FAULKNER. TOM, THE YOUNGEST BOY, ALSO EVENTUALLY PURCHASED A. FARM IN FAULKNER, ACROSS THE ZEKIAH SWAMP FROM HIS BROTHER, CHARLES. ABBIE MARRIED AND LIVED IN THE BALTIMORE AREA. LATE IN LIFE SHE MOVED TO. LA PLATA, WHERE SHE LIVED A COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT WENT BACK TO BALTIMORE,. WHERE SHE DIED. BELL, SHAKESPEARE, AND ABBIE HAD NO CHILDREN.

WITH ALL OF HIS CHILDREN GONE, WALLACE DECIDED TO LEAVE VIRGINIA AND. COME TO CHARLES COUNTY TO LIVE WITH HIS CHILDREN. HE NEVER SOLD HIS FARM. IN VIRGINIA. WASH WOULD TAKE HIM BACK TO WESTMORELAND COUNTY ONCE A YEAR. TO PAY HIS FARM TAXES. HE WAS LIVING WITH CHARLES AND WASH AT. CHARLESBOROUGH HILLS WHEN DIED AROUND 1904 FROM A DISEASE CALLED. "GALLOPING CONSUMPTION." HE IS BURIED AT TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH NEAR. NEWPORT.

THERE ARE MANY FAMILY STORIES ABOUT WALLACE'S PERSONALITY AND. TREMENDOUS STRENGTH. IT IS SAID THAT EVEN AS AN OLD MAN, HE WAS STRONGER. THAN HIS GROWN SONS. HE WAS A TALL MAN OF LARGE STATURE, WITH BROAD. SHOULDERS AND BIG HANDS. PRISON RECORDS FROM POINT LOOKOUT STATE THAT HE. WAS 6 [FEET] AND 1/2 INCHES TALL. A FAVORITE STORY IS HOW, WHEN THE. TONGUE TO AN OX CART BROKE, HE CUT A TREE DOWN TO REPLACE THE TONGUE AND. CARRIED THE ENTIRE LOG OUT OF THE WOODS ON HIS SHOULDERS. HE WAS A. TALENTED CRAFTSMAN, AND COULD MAKE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. ALSO, WHILE HE. WAS IN PRISON AT POINT LOOKOUT, HE DEVELOPED THE SKILLS OF AN EXCELLENT. SEAMSTRESS. AS AN OLD MAN, HE MADE SOME BEAUTIFUL CLOTHING FOR HIS. GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS A KIND MAN WHO HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS. DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. HIS SONS SOMETIMES CRITICIZED HIM FOR NOT WORKING AS. DILIGENTLY AS THEY DID, BUT THEIR FATHER HAD BEEN RAISED IN A DIFFERENT. ENVIRONMENT THAN THEY HAD, AND AT A DIFFERENT TIME IN OUR NATION'S. HISTORY. WALLACE HAD BEEN RAISED IN A DIFFERENT FAMILY ATMOSPHERE AND. WAS TAUGHT TO ENJOY THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE, LIKE FOX HUNTING AND GOOD. HORSES. AFTER THE WAR, LIFE IN THE SOUTH WAS NOT THE SAME. THE ECONOMY. WAS DESTROYED AND WALLACE'S SONS DID NOT HAVE ADVANTAGES THEIR FATHER HAD. WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, THUS, THEY HAD TO WORK HARD IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. WALLACE'S HEALTH ALSO WAS A FACTOR IN HIS ABILITY TO WORK AS HARD AS HIS. SONS. AS A RESULT OF HIS WOUNDS AT GETTYSBURG, HE HAD A SCAR ON HIS. CHEEK AND WALKED WITH A LIMP, AND SOME FAMILY MEMBERS STILL HAVE THE. WALKING CANE HE USED. ALSO, AS A RESULT OF HIS WAR EXPERIENCES, HE WOULD. SUFFER FROM A VARIETY OF MALADIES AT TIMES, SUCH AS BOW[E]L DISORDERS AND. WEAKNESS.

WALLACE'S GRAVE, FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON, WAS NEVER MARKED WITH A. TOMBSTONE. FOR YEARS, A BRICK MARKED THE HEAD OF THE GRAVE, BUT IT. EVENTUALLY DISAPPEARED. AS TIME PASSED, MOST PEOPLE IN THE FAMILY FORGOT. HIM AND EVEN THE OLDEST GRANDCHILDREN HAD A DIFFICUT TIME REMEMBERING THE. EXACT LOCATION OF HIS BURIAL. NOT UNTIL MAY OF 1988, WAS THE RESTING. PLACE OF HIS REMAINS RELOCATED. THE FAMILY HAS PURCHASED A TOMBSTONE FOR. HIS GRAVE AND A MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD ON OCTOBER 16, 1988. AFTER. EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS, A LONG OVERDUE EVENT WILL FINALLY TAKE PLACE.

WALLACE'S DEATH MARKED THE END OF A VANISHING BREED OF MEN, WHERE. DUTY AND HONOR WERE AN IMPORTANT PART OF ONE'S DAILY LIFE. HE FOUGHT. UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF. FREEDOM AND THE RIGHT FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT. WALLACE WAS A DUTIFUL. HUSBAND, FATHER, CITIZEN, AND SOLDIER. THE INSCRIPTION ON HIS TOMBSTONE. EXPRESSES THE CREED BY WHICH HE LIVED HIS LIFE:

"DUTY IS THE SUBLIMEST WORD IN OUR LANGUAGE.

DO YOUR DUTY IN ALL THINGS. YOU CANNOT DO MORE.

YOU SHOULD NEVER WISH TO DO LESS.".

-GEN. ROBERT E. LEE.

• • • IN HIS HONOR, THE PRIVATE WALLACE BOWLING CAMP #1400, SONS OF.

CONFEDERATE VETERANS, LA PLATA, MARYLAND, WAS NAMED AFTER HIM IN MAY OF. 1982. THIS CAMP IS PART OF A NATIONAL HERITAGE ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF HONORING OUR NATIONS'S CONFEDERATE VETERANS. THOSE MALE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE. SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS, AND POSSIBLY JOINING THE PRIVATE WALLACE. BOWLING CAMP, SHOULD CONTACT GARTH BOWLING, JR., RT. 3, BOX 246-B, PENNS. HILL RD., LA PLATA, MD. 20646 (934-1983).

• • • THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED AFTER PART IV OF THE FAMILY.

HISTORY WAS TYPED. AS A RESULT, I AM ADDING THE INFORMATION HERE,. REGARDING ONE OF WALLACE'S SONS, FRANK. FRANK O. BOWLING, SR. WORKED FOR THE MERCHANT MINERS TRANSPORTATION. COMPANY IN SOUTH BALTIMORE FOR SEVEN YEARS. HE TRAVELED UP AND DOWN THE. EAST COAST FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA, SERVING AS THE CHIEF OILER ON A SHIP. HE THEN BOUGHT A SALOON IN BALTIMORE CALLED BOWLING'S SALOON. HE MOVED. TO CHARLES COUNTY AROUND 1912, BORROWED MONEY, AND BOUGHT A FARM.

[WALLACE BOWLING'S AND ELLEN DOLEMAN'S MARRIAGE LICENSE:]. MARRIAGE LICENSE.

VIRGINIA--[HANDSCRIBED] WESTMORELAND COUNTY TO WIT:

TO ANY PERSON LICENSED TO CELEBRATE MARRIAGES:

YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO JOIN TOGETHER IN THE HOLY STATE OF MATRIMONY,. ACCORDING TO RITES AND CEREMONIES OF YOUR CHURCH, OR RELIGIOUS. DENOMINATION, AND THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, [HANDSCRIBED]. WALLACE BOWLING AND FRANCES ELLEN DOLEMAN.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND, AS CLERK OF THE [HANDSCRIBED] COUNTY COURT OF.

WESTMORELAND [HANDSCRIBED] THIS [HANDSCRIBED] 18TH DAY OF FEBRUARY - 1864.

[HANDSCRIBED] J. WASON (?) HURT CLERK,".

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S6702
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "Mr. Wallace Bowling", Maryland Independent (Port Tobacco, Maryland), 28 Jul 1899, p. 3, col. 1.
3. ↑ "Find a Grave," database with images, (Find A Grave: Memorial #14077742 : accessed 30 January 2023), Memorial page for Pvt William Wallace Bowling (1835-1904), citing Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Newport, Charles County, Maryland, USA; Maintained by C (contributor 46588217).

• Source: S6702 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS

NEWPORT, CHARLES, MARYLAND

• Source: S6703 TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS

NEWPORT, CHARLES, MARYLAND

• Source: S6704 BOWLING FAMILY RESEARCH RESULTS BY GARTH E.

TELEPHONE (301) 934-1983 LA PLATA, CHARLES, MARYLAND 20646

BOWLING, JR., ROUTE 3 BOX 246B, PENNS HILL RD.

TELEPHONE (301) 934-1983

LA PLATA, CHARLES, MARYLAND 20646

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