Slave & Servant Internment
To the North and just outside the Bowman Cemetery gate is the elevated unmarked, brick and mortar crypt of Nellie Foster "Mammy" (c1790-1890), a long time faithful servant of the Bowman, Davison and related families – she was especially connected in the Nanny care for three generations of children – Nellie Foster, was enumerated within the Mt. Pleasant family household in the 1880 census and she remained there with the family to her death. Tradition also indicates that a number of slaves and colored servants were buried on the hillside nearby the crypt of "Mammy" but today their markers have disappeared
/ by Roquey Jobes
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Some personal notes on "Mammy" (Nellie Foster) of Fort Bowman era:
Nellie Foster, was born at Fort Bowman, and was probably a decent from the earlier slaves of George Bowman. She was the caretaker for children of the Bowman families.. This included the Davisons and Boyers in her later years.. She had stayed with both families in her latter years, but when her duties were done, she wanted to go home to Mount Pleasant, where she died ,from a fall sometime in 1890, she was 100 years old. She was there for Isaac Bowmens 15 children, and grandchildren.
One event that was pass down, was when Rebecca and Charles Hite eloped, Rebecca, waited for Mammy to fall asleep, she then meet Charles at the Front of the house with a ladder, she quietly went out her bedroom window, and decended down the ladder from her second story widow, and then join her husband to be.
When France Ann Bowman Foltz, "Aunt Fanny", finaced the money , in 1927 to build a stone wall around the Bowman Cemetary, she had given instruction to her nephews, John, Pat (Raleigh) and William,(Boss) Davison. . and the building of a crypt for her family beloved Mammy, Mammy's family had been buried eariler beside her grave.
Mary Eltinge Baker, bought cement for the use of the wall and Crypt.. She was a cousin of the Davisons and stayed there occasionally in the summer. She was also instrumental of the monument out side the road to Belle grove, she was very active in the Dau. of the Confederates. She also was contacted for Belle Grove,when it was being repair and studied in the 1930s, and 1940.
By Terri Davison Shrader Aug 2009
To the North and just outside the Bowman Cemetery gate is the elevated unmarked, brick and mortar crypt of Nellie Foster "Mammy" (c1790-1890), a long time faithful servant of the Bowman, Davison and related families – she was especially connected in the Nanny care for three generations of children – Nellie Foster, was enumerated within the Mt. Pleasant family household in the 1880 census and she remained there with the family to her death. Tradition also indicates that a number of slaves and colored servants were buried on the hillside nearby the crypt of "Mammy" but today their markers have disappeared
/ by Roquey Jobes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some personal notes on "Mammy" (Nellie Foster) of Fort Bowman era:
Nellie Foster, was born at Fort Bowman, and was probably a decent from the earlier slaves of George Bowman. She was the caretaker for children of the Bowman families.. This included the Davisons and Boyers in her later years.. She had stayed with both families in her latter years, but when her duties were done, she wanted to go home to Mount Pleasant, where she died ,from a fall sometime in 1890, she was 100 years old. She was there for Isaac Bowmens 15 children, and grandchildren.
One event that was pass down, was when Rebecca and Charles Hite eloped, Rebecca, waited for Mammy to fall asleep, she then meet Charles at the Front of the house with a ladder, she quietly went out her bedroom window, and decended down the ladder from her second story widow, and then join her husband to be.
When France Ann Bowman Foltz, "Aunt Fanny", finaced the money , in 1927 to build a stone wall around the Bowman Cemetary, she had given instruction to her nephews, John, Pat (Raleigh) and William,(Boss) Davison. . and the building of a crypt for her family beloved Mammy, Mammy's family had been buried eariler beside her grave.
Mary Eltinge Baker, bought cement for the use of the wall and Crypt.. She was a cousin of the Davisons and stayed there occasionally in the summer. She was also instrumental of the monument out side the road to Belle grove, she was very active in the Dau. of the Confederates. She also was contacted for Belle Grove,when it was being repair and studied in the 1930s, and 1940.
By Terri Davison Shrader Aug 2009
Slave & Servant Internment
To the North and just outside the Bowman Cemetery gate is the elevated unmarked, brick and mortar crypt of Nellie Foster "Mammy" (c1790-1890), a long time faithful servant of the Bowman, Davison and related families – she was especially connected in the Nanny care for three generations of children – Nellie Foster, was enumerated within the Mt. Pleasant family household in the 1880 census and she remained there with the family to her death. Tradition also indicates that a number of slaves and colored servants were buried on the hillside nearby the crypt of "Mammy" but today their markers have disappeared
/ by Roquey Jobes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some personal notes on "Mammy" (Nellie Foster) of Fort Bowman era:
Nellie Foster, was born at Fort Bowman, and was probably a decent from the earlier slaves of George Bowman. She was the caretaker for children of the Bowman families.. This included the Davisons and Boyers in her later years.. She had stayed with both families in her latter years, but when her duties were done, she wanted to go home to Mount Pleasant, where she died ,from a fall sometime in 1890, she was 100 years old. She was there for Isaac Bowmens 15 children, and grandchildren.
One event that was pass down, was when Rebecca and Charles Hite eloped, Rebecca, waited for Mammy to fall asleep, she then meet Charles at the Front of the house with a ladder, she quietly went out her bedroom window, and decended down the ladder from her second story widow, and then join her husband to be.
When France Ann Bowman Foltz, "Aunt Fanny", finaced the money , in 1927 to build a stone wall around the Bowman Cemetary, she had given instruction to her nephews, John, Pat (Raleigh) and William,(Boss) Davison. . and the building of a crypt for her family beloved Mammy, Mammy's family had been buried eariler beside her grave.
Mary Eltinge Baker, bought cement for the use of the wall and Crypt.. She was a cousin of the Davisons and stayed there occasionally in the summer. She was also instrumental of the monument out side the road to Belle grove, she was very active in the Dau. of the Confederates. She also was contacted for Belle Grove,when it was being repair and studied in the 1930s, and 1940.
By Terri Davison Shrader Aug 2009
To the North and just outside the Bowman Cemetery gate is the elevated unmarked, brick and mortar crypt of Nellie Foster "Mammy" (c1790-1890), a long time faithful servant of the Bowman, Davison and related families – she was especially connected in the Nanny care for three generations of children – Nellie Foster, was enumerated within the Mt. Pleasant family household in the 1880 census and she remained there with the family to her death. Tradition also indicates that a number of slaves and colored servants were buried on the hillside nearby the crypt of "Mammy" but today their markers have disappeared
/ by Roquey Jobes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some personal notes on "Mammy" (Nellie Foster) of Fort Bowman era:
Nellie Foster, was born at Fort Bowman, and was probably a decent from the earlier slaves of George Bowman. She was the caretaker for children of the Bowman families.. This included the Davisons and Boyers in her later years.. She had stayed with both families in her latter years, but when her duties were done, she wanted to go home to Mount Pleasant, where she died ,from a fall sometime in 1890, she was 100 years old. She was there for Isaac Bowmens 15 children, and grandchildren.
One event that was pass down, was when Rebecca and Charles Hite eloped, Rebecca, waited for Mammy to fall asleep, she then meet Charles at the Front of the house with a ladder, she quietly went out her bedroom window, and decended down the ladder from her second story widow, and then join her husband to be.
When France Ann Bowman Foltz, "Aunt Fanny", finaced the money , in 1927 to build a stone wall around the Bowman Cemetary, she had given instruction to her nephews, John, Pat (Raleigh) and William,(Boss) Davison. . and the building of a crypt for her family beloved Mammy, Mammy's family had been buried eariler beside her grave.
Mary Eltinge Baker, bought cement for the use of the wall and Crypt.. She was a cousin of the Davisons and stayed there occasionally in the summer. She was also instrumental of the monument out side the road to Belle grove, she was very active in the Dau. of the Confederates. She also was contacted for Belle Grove,when it was being repair and studied in the 1930s, and 1940.
By Terri Davison Shrader Aug 2009
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