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Mary Permelia Clementine “Permelia” <I>Killingsworth</I> Bowen

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Mary Permelia Clementine “Permelia” Killingsworth Bowen

Birth
Bibb County, Georgia, USA
Death
1885 (aged 70–71)
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
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Mary Permelia Clementine Killingsworth, who lived in Macon, met and married Stephen Bowen on November 11, 1828, in Henry County, Georgia. Marriages 1822-1837 page 143. Permelia left her home of plenty, where she did not want for anything and had servents to wait on upon her and went to make her home in a log cabin. She was the daughter of John Killingsworth, born about 1815 in Bibb County, Georgia.

The first meal Permelia cooked for Steve consisted of bacon, corn pones and black coffee. It was the first meal she had ever prepared, but Steve thought it was the best food he had ever tasted. In 1846, Steve sold the home in Georgia and moved the family to Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Permelia is found on the 1860 Tuscaloosa County Census, and shows her age as 45. Age 55 on the 1870 census page 336, and age 64 on the 1880 census. She died sometime after 1880. Their are no records of the 1890 census. She was 70 years old when she died.

Permelia's children were: Seth Green, Sarah Frances, Stephen, John Henry, James Tinsley, Jasper Newton, Charles Columbus, Joseph Franklin, Allen Zachariah & Andrew Jackson Jones, and two sons who died young.
Mary Permelia Clementine Killingsworth, who lived in Macon, met and married Stephen Bowen on November 11, 1828, in Henry County, Georgia. Marriages 1822-1837 page 143. Permelia left her home of plenty, where she did not want for anything and had servents to wait on upon her and went to make her home in a log cabin. She was the daughter of John Killingsworth, born about 1815 in Bibb County, Georgia.

The first meal Permelia cooked for Steve consisted of bacon, corn pones and black coffee. It was the first meal she had ever prepared, but Steve thought it was the best food he had ever tasted. In 1846, Steve sold the home in Georgia and moved the family to Cottondale, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Permelia is found on the 1860 Tuscaloosa County Census, and shows her age as 45. Age 55 on the 1870 census page 336, and age 64 on the 1880 census. She died sometime after 1880. Their are no records of the 1890 census. She was 70 years old when she died.

Permelia's children were: Seth Green, Sarah Frances, Stephen, John Henry, James Tinsley, Jasper Newton, Charles Columbus, Joseph Franklin, Allen Zachariah & Andrew Jackson Jones, and two sons who died young.

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