Person:Isaac Bowman (7)

Notes

11. Isaac Bowman, born probably in April 1757. He was a lieutenant under his brother Joseph and Clark in the Illinois campaign; helped to conduct prisoners from Kaskaskia to Williamsburg; on his return west was captured by Illinois Indians (he was then 21); was three years with the Indians, then escaped and returned to the old home on Cedar Creek, where he lived and died.

Lt. Isaac Bowman, after his return to Shenandoah County in or about 1782, married Elizabeth Gatewood and, after her death, Mary Chinn. By the two wives he had 16 children. Of these, Isaac Sydnor, fifth from the youngest, was born in November, 1803. He married Eleanor B. Hite (1813-1903), and had three children:

1. Mary Elizabeth, born 1842, who married Smith Davison;

2. Frances, born 1846. who married Ezra Foltz (Mrs. Foltz died June 4, 1927)

3. Isaac, born 1852, who married Susan Hall.

Isaac Sydnor Bowman died in 1866. In 1812-13 Lt. Isaac Bowman, son of the pioneer, erected the splendid brick mansion, "Mt. Pleasant", which stands (now unoccupied) on the high bank above Cedar Creek, on the Shenandoah County side, about two miles northeast of Strasburg, within half a mile or so of the old stone house which his father, George Bowman, erected in or about 1753.

["History of Shenandoah County, Virginia", pg. 694].