From SIMS INDEX TO LAND GRANTS IN WV:
Kanawha Co., (W) VA:

1) MARSHALL BOWMAN, in 1833 , 153 acres on the W.
side of Coal River (Bk. 2, p. 357);

2) JOHN BOWMAN, in 1833, got 100 acres "Adj. M.
Bowman on Coal River" and 63 acres "Below Mth. Is. Cr."
(Bk. 2, p. 263).

On October 20,1833, in Kanawha County, Marshall
Bowman applied for his soldier's pension, and the certificate
was issued on November 15, 1833. His claims were supported
by David Harbour and Charles Jones.

On Feb 24, 1836, Marshall and Behethland Bowman were
grantors of deed for 40 acres on Coal River to their son John
Bowman.

On that same day, a deed was made where John Bowman was
the grantor of land on Coal River to Zachariah Bowman.

Marshall and Behethland made their last Kanawha County
deed on September 12, 1839, selling for $800 to James King
and wife Mary all the tract he got in the Aug. 28, 1805 patent
on Coal River (except 40 acres which were sold to son John
Bowman in 1836), about 113 acres. Behethland might have died
after the deed and before going to Missouri with Marshall, or
she might have died on the trip there, or after they got there.

>From the deed selling all the land, it appears that she and
Marshall had planned to leave for good and move to Benton
County, Missouri, to be with some of their children who had
settled there (sons Lusby and Tobimas were there in 1840
Census, and Lindsay and Zachariah had moved there before
the 1850 Census).

Marshall died at about 80 years old, in Benton County,
sometime after July 27, 1840 (when his pension was
changed to the rolls in Missouri) and before November
of 1840. He was buried in Benton County, Missouri.

- Compiled by M. L., "Peggy," Green
August 1998

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