Larry Anderson - Families and Individuals

Notes

William Augustus BOWERS

Line in Record @I23803@ (RIN 306124) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
CAUS Measles

Line in Record @I23803@ (RIN 306124) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN Civil War

Line in Record @I23803@ (RIN 306124) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU Farmer

1860 Sevier Co., TN, District 10, page 28-336
195 194 W.A. Bowers 32 M Farmer Tennessee
Serena 31 F Tennessee
Gerome 11 M Tennessee
Joseph 8 M Tennessee
Spencer 8 M Tennessee
Ellen 2 F Tennessee
Andrew 6/12 M Tennessee

William died during the Civil War of measles.

Serana Catherine TIPTON

1870 Sevier Co., TN, 14-441, District 10, Trundles x-roads
11 day of August
95 95 Bower, Serena C. 43 F W Keeping house 500 375 Tennessee
Joseph E. 17 M W At home Tennessee
Andrew S. 16 M W At home Tennessee
Vina E. 14 F W Tennessee
William H. 8 M W Tennessee

Anderson BOWERS

Died Young

Spencer BOWERS

Line in Record @I23812@ (RIN 306133) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
RESI

Andrew Temple TIPTON

Line in Record @I23815@ (RIN 306136) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN Civil War,  Sgt., Co. "B" 3rd Cavalry for Tennessee

1860 Sevier Co., TN census: 29-337
                 Tipton, Andrew, 28, Elizabeth, 26, John, 7, Mary, 5, Nancy, 3, Budd, 4/12

Andrew was a Sergeant in Company B, 3rd Cavalry for Tennessee.

He died when the "Sultana" went down on the Mississippi River, April 27, 1865, as recorded by W.O. Whittle from the Family Bible and other records in 1940. "The steamboat ( Sultana ) was treacherously overloaded with Union soldiers returning from serving in the Civil War.

Most of those who died were paroled Union prisoners of war. They were being transported home to resume their lives after enduring disease and malnutrition in the Confederacy's most brutal prison camps, Andersonville and Cahaba. There was a boiler explosion on the Mississippi just north of Memphis, Tennessee.

The steamboat was designed to hold 376 passengers. Estimated range from 1,800 to 2,400 soldiers were on board. The Army's chief investigator at the Customs Office in Memphis put it at 1,557, a figure generally accepted as the official estimate. Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, wrote that estimates ran as high as 1,800. By comparison, 1522 died when the Ocean Liner, Titanic, sank."

Sources: Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, September 25, 1994.
John Nolan, Associated Press from the book, "The Sultana Tragedy", by Jerry Potter; confirmed by "Encarta Encyclopedia, 1994", Microsoft CD ROM.

John Aaron TIPTON

Line in Record @I23817@ (RIN 306138) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU School Teacher

See www.familysearch.org