From the book "The Settler's War" by Gregory Michino: G.F. Bowman & Mary F. Bowman lived on Deep Creek in southeast Wise County, where Bowman farmed, raised horses, and practiced as a physician. So far they had escaped the numerous raids that came into that portion of the country, but that changed on March 2. Their daughter Sallie Bowman, said to be a beautiful and courageous young woman, often road herd on her father's horses. Riding a fine, fast horse, she was unconcerned about Indians, but as she was watering her horse in Deep Creek, about 2 miles from the house , Indians surprised her. She made a grand run, jumping the horse over ditches and fallen trees. The warriors cut her off from her home and she headed toward a neighbor named Jones. She almost reached safety when two Indians sped up close behind her and shot her twice in the back. Sallie flipped off the horse and dropped dead almost in Joneses' yard. The Indians got her horse and the bunch she was guarding. Sallie was one of the first to be buried in Deep Creek Cemetery.
The book says her father was G.F., but a memorial in the same cemetery is for a C.F. (Constantine F.) Bowman who I assume was her father.
The book says her father was G.F., but a memorial in the same cemetery is for a C.F. (Constantine F.) Bowman who I assume was her father.
From the book "The Settler's War" by Gregory Michino: G.F. Bowman & Mary F. Bowman lived on Deep Creek in southeast Wise County, where Bowman farmed, raised horses, and practiced as a physician. So far they had escaped the numerous raids that came into that portion of the country, but that changed on March 2. Their daughter Sallie Bowman, said to be a beautiful and courageous young woman, often road herd on her father's horses. Riding a fine, fast horse, she was unconcerned about Indians, but as she was watering her horse in Deep Creek, about 2 miles from the house , Indians surprised her. She made a grand run, jumping the horse over ditches and fallen trees. The warriors cut her off from her home and she headed toward a neighbor named Jones. She almost reached safety when two Indians sped up close behind her and shot her twice in the back. Sallie flipped off the horse and dropped dead almost in Joneses' yard. The Indians got her horse and the bunch she was guarding. Sallie was one of the first to be buried in Deep Creek Cemetery.
The book says her father was G.F., but a memorial in the same cemetery is for a C.F. (Constantine F.) Bowman who I assume was her father.
The book says her father was G.F., but a memorial in the same cemetery is for a C.F. (Constantine F.) Bowman who I assume was her father.
Inscription
Dau of G.F. & Mary J.; Killed by Comanche Indians on Deep Creek, Wise Co., TX; Stone purchased & erected by Deep Creek community
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