Elizabeth Starke Bowyer

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Christian-799

Elizabeth Starke Christian was born about 1746 in Botetourt County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Israel Christian and Elizabeth Starke.

Elizabeth married William Bowyer.[1] They had two daughters

1. Priscilla and
2. Mary. (See Research Notes)

Elizabeth died about 1774.

Biographical Sketch

From Whitsitt, William H. (1888). The Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace. Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Company. 1888. Page 96. < GoogleBooks >

"Elizabeth Starke Christian, the second daughter of Israel Christian, married Col. William Bowyer, of Staunton. As this gentleman was never connected with the affairs of Kentucky, it is not considered important to produce any biographical sketch of him. On the other hand , it may be appropriate to set down a few genealogical notices relating to his descendants."
"Mrs. Bowyer was recently deceased at the time when the will of Israel Christian was composed, in July, 1784. She had only two children, Priscilla and Mary. Mary Bowyer became the wife of her first cousin, Leonard Fleming, who settled in Kentucky, and the facts relating to her have been given in connection with him.
"Priscilla Bowyer married, first, Mr. Madison, a brother of Bishop Madison, of the Episcopal Church of Virginia. He lived but a short time, and some years after his death, his widow married Capt. John Miller, of Fincastle. To this marriage there was issue as follows:"
"1. Fleming Bowyer Miller, an eminent lawyer of Virginia, who died since the war between the States. He left five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters is Mrs. William McCue, of Augusta County, and the other is Mrs. Capt . Sawyers, of Wythe County."
"2. Elizabeth Miller married Mr. Randolph Ross, a merchant. They had three sons, all of whom died without issue."
"3. Nancy Miller married Col. Reuben Ross, and left three children : Col. Reuben Ross, of Missouri, Mrs. Judge Hudson, of Fincastle (who since her husband's death spends most of the time with her children in Texas and Iowa), and Mrs. Virginia Pitzer, who died in Texas several years ago"[2]

Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boyer-1095

1. Frazier et al (1985) lists seven children for William and Margaret,[1] but says that daughter Priscilla married John Miller, which would seem to make her the daughter with his first wife who "married a Miller, ancestor of the late Fleming Bowyer Miller."[4]
2. Moreover, a Christian family history asserts that daughter Mary Bowyer married her first cousin, Leonard Israel Fleming, indicating that Mary's mother was Elizabeth Christian (and Leonard's was her sister Anne). The history says "She [Mary] had resided in the family of Col. William Fleming for a number of years after the death of her mother, who was the first wife of Col. William Bowyer, of Staunton , Va."[6]
3. So this would indicate that William had two daughters, Priscilla and Mary, with his first wife Elizabeth, and five children, William C., Strother, Luke Henry, Peter C., and Malinda, with his second wife, Margaret.
4. Note that the DAR database lists William's birth year as 1738 and his death year as 1808. [3]

References

1. http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full...
2. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Christian_%288%29