Person:Lucille Bowens (1)

Lucille Bowens: Biographical Information

Lucille 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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• Person:Caesar Bowens (1)
  • +Person:Ellen Unknown (155)
    • Person:Mary Bowens (1)
    • Person:Charlie Bowens (1)
    • Person:Henry Bowens (1)
    • Person:Julia Bowens (1)
    • Person:Richmond Bowens (1)
      • +Person:Anna Bryant (4)
        • Person:Richmond Bowens Jr. (1)
        • Person:Frank Bowens (1)
        • Person:Emille Bowens (1)
        • Person:Lucille Bowens (1)
        • Person:Rosina Bowens (1)
        • Person:Sadie Bowens (1)
    • Person:Samuel Bowens (1)
    • Person:Allen Bowens (1)
    • Person:Joseph Bowens (1)
    • Person:Isaiah Bowens (1)
    • Person:Eloise Bowens (1)
    • Person:Ageline? Bowens (1)
    • Person:Lizzie Bowens (1)
    • Person:Hinny Bowens (1)

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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

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. ↑ Saint Andrews Parish, Charleston, South Carolina, in United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626).

   in the household of Ezekiel and Anna Mayes:
   step-daughter: Lucile Bowens, age 10, born in South Carolina

3. ↑ Widening the Circle of Family History (Drayton Hall).

   A meeting with Emmie Lee Bowens Jenkins in Jan. 2009 doesn't mention any surviving siblings. It is inferred that she was the last of the siblings alive.