Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-05-04
REESE T. BOWEN
DIED YESTERDAY
After Years of Suffering End
Comes to Confederate Veter-
an-Funeral and Burial Ser
vice to BE Held This Morn
ing.

Captain Reese Tate Bowen, who
has been i'll at his home in TazewelI
FOR several years, died yesterday
morning at 1880 O'clock. For the past
two or three weeks he had grown
gradually weaker, Sunday night he
became much worse, and lnpscd into
uhconsciousness, and his attending
physicians advised the family that he
could 1--we but short time.
Captain Bowen was ~ years old,
and IL survived by his wife, who was
Misss Mary Anne Crockett, of Wythe
county, and four sons and four daHrh.
ters, viz Mrs. S. j. Thompson, of the
Cove; Henry S. Bowen, of Wittens
Mills; Il. c. Bowen, of Tazewell;
Rces I. Bowen, Jr. of the Cove; DR..
). G. Bowen of Richmond; Mrs. j. p.
Royal, Mrs. II. a. Bowen and Miss
Rnrhel A. Bowen, of Tazewell.
The funeral service will occur Mt
the Rowcn home today Mt II o'clock,
and intermcnt will be made immcdin-
tely afterwards in the Jcffcrsonville
Cemetery.
Captain Bowen enlisted in the Con-
fedcrntc army at the beginning of
hostilitics and served with distinction
and honor until it's close. Although n
mere boy, at the beginning of the war
being. only sixteen years of age, he
joined the famous "Tazewcll Troo-
pers" of the Eighth Virginia cavalry
Ills iirst service was in what ia now
West Virginia under several comman-
dcB-,Paynes Floyd, Robert Il. Ice,
and others. The regiment with which
he was connected received it's baptism
of fire in what was called the North
western cnmpagn, Mt Cnt-nifax Ferry,
McCoy's Bridge, Knnnwah Falls, etc,
until ordered to report to Gen. w. f..
Jones for service in Tennessee Begin
ming ut Bristol Jonscs' little army
drove the redcrals to the gates Of
Knoxville, with many small engage
mcnts, surprises and runng fights.
but the enemy being strongly rein
forced, Jones' command slowly re-
treated through Cumberland Gap and
were incorporated with the forces in
the Valley of Virginia under EARLY,
Rosaer, titzhugh Lee, .nnd others.
Captain Bowen was wounded in the
aide ut tho battle of Clinch River, and
in the head at the Battle of Winchcs-
ter.
Before moving To Tnzewell he lived
with his fnmily on n fine farm in the
Cove, where his fntner and grand
iiNGNl llUl. nt luIm IL
now run by his son, Rees II. Bowen,
Jr., and il Is n singular fact that Rees
i. Bowen has been in possession of
this farm for the past five genera
tons, beginning with the great grand
father of the deceased down to the
present. Captnin Bowen was brother
OF the late Col. Henry Bowen, and the
lntc Mn jOr II. p. Bowen and of Mrs.
Lou Bowen Kroll, of this town.
Deceased was n man of generous
impulses and until within few years
ago, was II very active man. He low
cd life, congenial companionship, and
was the very soul OF generosity, and
his home the embodiment of true
Virginia hospitality and good cheer.
AS neighbors and true friends there
were no better or more to be valued
on cnrth. For the past several years
he suffered in silence uncomplaining-
ly, from II mnlady which baflled the
skill of medical science to heal or
even arrest in its deadly ravages.
With wonderful patience and forti-
tidc he bore his suiferings, and await
ed with calmness the end which he
knew To be inevitable. The good citi-
zen and brave soldier rests from his
lnborcrs and his sufferings. Peace to
his ashes!
Funeral Services Today mt IL O'Clock.
The funeral services of the late
Captain Bowen will take place this
morning ut III o'clock, ut the home
conducted by Rev. w. w. Arrowood,
of the Presbyterian church, assisted
by Rev. r. B. Platt, Jr., pastor of
the Methodist church and Rev. j. N.
Harmnn.
The pall-bearers are:
Active-Dr. 7. d. Johnston, w. Il.
Peery, Capt. Rees Bowen, of Blue
field; Mr.. Crockett and Mr.. Oglcsby,
of Wythc county and w. II. Bowen.
Honorar-A. J. Steele, A. st. Clair,
Judge $: G. Graham, j. A. Leslie, p.
II. Williams, George Ward, w. G.
O'Brien. w. r. Gillespie, j. Meek
Hogc, John ID. Alexander, and II. G.
Mccall