Louisa Matilda <I>Bowers</I> McAlvain

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Louisa Matilda Bowers McAlvain

Birth
Grainger County, Tennessee, USA
Death
25 Dec 1918 (aged 54)
McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Kennady, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Born in Grainger County, Tennessee to John Bowers and Mary Majors Bowers, she travelled with her family to the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.

She was married twice; her first husband being Albert Choate, her second husband a prominent Choctaw of Sugar Loaf County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, named Polk McAlvain.

Louisa was the mother of John Walter, Charles, William Richard, Thomas Jay, Florence Alice, David Warren, Martha, Audie Carl, Lulabelle, and Jewel McAlvain in addition to helping raise Polk's three sons by Mary Choate; Stonewall Jackson, Robert Lee and Louis Riley McAlvain.

She was of the Baptist Faith.

Tombstone Reads:
Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you shall be,
Prepare for death and follow me.
Born in Grainger County, Tennessee to John Bowers and Mary Majors Bowers, she travelled with her family to the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.

She was married twice; her first husband being Albert Choate, her second husband a prominent Choctaw of Sugar Loaf County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, named Polk McAlvain.

Louisa was the mother of John Walter, Charles, William Richard, Thomas Jay, Florence Alice, David Warren, Martha, Audie Carl, Lulabelle, and Jewel McAlvain in addition to helping raise Polk's three sons by Mary Choate; Stonewall Jackson, Robert Lee and Louis Riley McAlvain.

She was of the Baptist Faith.

Tombstone Reads:
Remember friends as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you shall be,
Prepare for death and follow me.


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