Effie (Scoggins) Bowen (1902 - 1956)

Born 30 Apr 1902 in Mississippi, USA

Died 26 May 1956 at age 54 in Raleigh, Smith, Mississippi, USA

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Effie (Scoggins) Bowen is buried in Merchant Cemetery.

Biography

Effie was born in 1902. Effie Scoggins ... She passed away in 1956.

Cemetery Project Research by Myrtis^[1]

Obituary

Laurel Leader-Call, Monday, May 28, 1956, p. 13

MRS. EFFIE SCOGGIN BOWEN [s/b Scoggins]

A long illness resulted in the death of Mrs. Effie Scoggin Bowen, 54, Saturday afternoon at her residence on Route 1, Raleigh.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 4 p.m. from Cohay Pentecostal church near Raleigh, with the Rev. John Moseley of Moss Point, officiating. Assisting were the Rev. Hinton Horn and the Rev. W. H. Middleton of Raleigh.

Interment was in Merchant Cemetery with six close friends of the family serving as pallbearers. Memory Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Bowen was a lifelong resident of Cohay Community, and a member of the Cohay Pentecostal church.

She is survived by her husband, S. B. Bowen: three step-sons, David Colon Bowen, J. C. Bowen and Collie Bowen, all of Raleigh; four sisters, Mrs. Lena Rogers and Mrs. T. J. Woodard. Hattiesburg, and Mrs. O. J. Ainsworth, Atlanta, Ga.; two brothers, A. C. Scoggin, Mize; Woodrow Scoggin, Atlanta.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Myrtis Bishop, February 20, 2015.
2. ↑ Published Laurel Leader-Call, Monday, May 28, 1956, p. 13

See also:

• Headstone
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVD-X2XQ : accessed 8 July 2015), Effie S. Bowen, 1956; Burial, Traxler, Smith, Mississippi, United States of America, Merchant Cemetery; citing record ID 13412425, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB3Q-7R3 : accessed 8 July 2015), Effie Bowen in household of Samual B Bowen, Beat 1, Smith, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 65-4, sheet 12A, family 209, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2065.