TENTH GENERATION

433. Henry Jackson BOWLBY ^{(2541) (760)} was born about 1828 in New Jersey. He was a farmer in 1860 in Somerset Twp., Jackson Co., IL.⁽²⁵⁴²⁾ He was buried in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL.

Henry was born around 1828 according to the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL. He married his second cousin, SARAH BOWLBY, daughter of Samuel Barker and Hulda (MESSENE) BOWLBY. Samuel Barker BOWLBY (10) was the eldest son of John BOWLBY (9), brother of Henry's father; so Henry was first cousin to his wife's father.They were married in Warren Co., OH. This was where Henry's brother, E. H., was married five months later and was most likely the place where his sister, Abigail, married her second cousin, Samuel Barker BOWLBY (11). The census indicates that Henry and Sarah were in Indiana when their first child was born around 1850; however, their second and third children were born in Ohio between 1851 and 1853. By 1853, the family was settled in Jackson Co., IL.

He was married to Sarah BOWLBY (daughter of Samuel Barker BOWLBY and Hulda MESSENE\MESZENE) on 28 Jan 1849 in Warren Co., OH.⁽²⁵⁴³⁾

Samuel Barker BOWLBY's sister, Sarah, married her second cousin and Abigail BOWLBY's brother, Henry Jackson BOWLBY. Sarah BOWLBY ^(2544)(760) was born about 1832 in Somerset Co., PA. ^(2545)(2546)
The 1860 Illinois census enumerated Sarah in Somerset Township, Jackson County as age 28, born in PA. She died before 1866 in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL. She was buried in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL. Henry Jackson BOWLBY and Sarah BOWLBY had the following children:

1010 i. Marion BOWLBY^{(2547) (760)} was born in 1849 in Washington, IN. In the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL. he was living.
1011 ii. Parkus BOWLBY^{(2548) (760)} was born about 1851 in Ohio. According to the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL. He was also known as Parkes. ⁽²⁵⁴⁹⁾
1012 iii. Lucretia BOWLBY^{(2550) (760)} was born about 1853 in Ohio. According to the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL.
1013 iv. Donaldson BOWLBY^{(2551) (760)} was born in 1856 in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL.
1014 v. William BOWLBY^{(2552) (760)} was born about 1859 in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL. According to the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL.

He was married to Mary A. HOUSE in 1866 in Jackson, Lawrence Co., IL. Henry Jackson BOWLBY and Mary A. HOUSE had the following children:

+1015 i. Nancy Leona BOWLBY.