Person:Emille Bowens (1)

  1. Richmond Bowens Jr.1908 - 1998
  2. Franklin Bowens1915 - 1957
  3. Emille Bowens1917 - 2010
  4. Lucille BowensAbt 1919 - Bef 2009
Facts and Events
Name Emille Bowens
Alt Name Emma Lee _____
Married Name[2] Emmie Lee Jenkins
Gender Female
Birth[2][3] 13 May 1917 Drayton Hall, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Death[3] 14 Nov 2010 Queens, New York, United States

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Emille Bowens: Biographical Information

Emille Bowens was the daughter of Richmond Bowens, Sr. and Anna Bryant, and the granddaughter of Caesar Bowens and Ella. Caesar Bowens was formerly enslaved on Drayton Hall Plantation on the Ashley River, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston, South Carolina. S1

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This page is part of a groundbreaking research project to rediscover the family lineages of enslaved people on Drayton family plantations in Barbados and the United States. To read more about this historic research, please visit the article below:

Genealogy of Enslaved Communities on Drayton Family Plantations: A Research Project Sponsored by the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, SC

References
  1.   Paonessa, Laurie J., Scott K. Parker and Lynne G. Lewis.

    I Was Born and Raised Here: Investigations at the Bowens Housesite, Drayton Hall, Spring 1992." National Trust Archaeological Research Center Monograph Series No. 6. Montpelier, Virginia: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1993

  2. 2.0 2.1 Widening the Circle of Family History (Drayton Hall).

    Emmie Lee Bowens Jenkins, younger sister of Richmond Bowens, born at Drayton Hall in 1917, living in St. Albans, Queens, New York in Jan. 2009

  3. 3.0 3.1 Emmie L. Jenkins, in Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

    born 13 May 1917
    died 14 Nov 2010
    last residence: Jamaica, Queens, New York
    SS# issued in South Carolina before 1951