From Gowen Manuscript: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gowenrf/Gowenms116.htm
TIPTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
John Gowan, negro, appeared as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Tipton County, Enumeration District 157, page 29, Civil District 6. The family was recorded as:
“Gowan, John 32, born in Virginia, negro
Nancy 22, born in TN
Sylvia 3/12, born in TN”
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Henry E. Gowen, deceased, was mentioned in the will of Nathaniel Pattes which was written December 7, 1831, according to Tipton County Court Minute Book B, page 157.
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