hi it's me jenn i got a new e-mail address. any way well my van bert bowen was born in 1908. waco texas. moved to houston,tx as to when he died?. for the last week i have benn working on my dewberry family lines as to all the family's that go in to that family and well .and there is bowen's in that tree way befor my grand dad came in to that family. all the dewberrys are said to be realated to each other here in the u.s. and well with what i have seen and know it kind of makes me think that the bowen family is that way too. not olny that but some how has tie's with other parts fo my family line's on my dad's side olny. i got 3 full lines to my family tree.2 on my grand mothers side. and one on my grandpa's side his mother's,mother,mom's family tree. from that family tree im in the9th gen so i got to be in the 9th gen for the bowen family. well going to let you go. oh i think how the name came about as to the van part i think it may have to do with one of the kin that married in to the family that had the last name that started with van . just like how reese bowen got his frist name from:rebecca reese's last name and well she was the wife of:moses bowen. or sould i say: ab(owen)?. well gointo get goin .jennifer.