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Bowman Cemetery
Collin County,
Texas

HISTORICAL STATEMENT 2

BOWMAN CEMETERY (1868 - ca 1921)

Members of three related, historically prominent families comprise many of the interments of Bowman Cemetery. Cemetery founder John D. Bowman’s family had martial ties to members of both the John D. Brown and Joseph Russell families. The Brown and Russell families, who had been close friends in Virginia, were also related through marriage. These two families traveled together to Texas in 1845 to settle in the Peters Colony (Republic of Texas land grant given to investors led by William S. Peters). Family patriarch Joseph Russell is buried at Bowman Cemetery with his wife, Elizabeth. His son and daughter-in-law, a Bowman, are also buried in the cemetery.

Although Peters Colony settler John D. Brown is not buried at Bowman Cemetery, several of his descendants are.

Another notable historic figure buried at Bowman Cemetery is Dr. Henry Dye, an early pioneer and frontier physician. He was the primary founder of Plano Presbyterian Church and is credited with suggesting the name for the town of Plano. During the Civil War, Dye served as a surgeon for the Confederate Army. He died from tuberculosis in 1878. He is related to both Bowman and Brown families through the marriages of two daughters into these families.

The last marked burial in the cemetery is that of George W. Bowman, John D. Bowman’s son. He was a Confederate Army veteran, as well as an original organizer and investor of Plano’s first bank, Plano National Bank. Bowman served as the bank’s president for over thirty years until his death in 1921. He also held interests in several other business ventures and served on the Plano School Board.

Contributed on 8/15/14 by gasirek
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Submitted: 8/15/14 • Approved: 8/18/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R16671-G0-S3

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