From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms058.htm
Lou Gowen, negress, was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Fayette County, Enumeration District 81, page 7:
“Gowen, Lou 73, born in Alabama, female
Thomas 7, born in Alabama, nephew
Mack 8, born in Alabama, nephew
Maberry 5, born in Alabama, grandson
Louis 6/12, born in Alabama, grandson”