Talk:Elijah Bowling (1787-1833)

Elijah " Bad Eli " Bowling: Birthdate: circa 1785 Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia, United States. Death: June 1833 Owsley County, Kentucky, United States. Place of Burial: Upper Buffalo Creek, Owsley County, Kentucky, United States. Immediate Family: Son of James B. Bowling and Sarah "Sally" Blevins, Bowling. Husband of Sarah "Sally" Anderson Birth 17 FEB 1779 • Amiss Ville, Rappahannock, Virginia, USA Death 7 JUL 1817 Upper Buffalo Creek, Owsley, Clay, Kentucky, USA. Burial: Farmer Roberts Cemetery. Father of Nancy Roberts; Rebecca Roberts; James "Bear Creek Jim" Bowling, Stokely Bowling, Mourning Sizemore, Lydia Herd,  Sally Bowling, William "Old Speck" Bowling; Pallas Bowling, Lou vina" Moore; Elijah Bowling, Jr.; Andy Bowling, Polly Bowling and Blevins Bowling, Brother of James Bowling; Catherine Bowling, Baker, Amis; Levi Bowling; Nancy Sizemore; Joseph Bowling; William Blevins Bowling; Blevins Bowling and Henrietta Asher.                                                                                             From "Pioneers of Little Beech Creek, Clay County, Kentucky" by Harold O Goins and information from the  John Jay Dicky Diaries 1878. My maternal grandfather was John Cundiff. My father died when I was six years old. It was about 1821. Grandfather Cundiff was a loyal friend. He would do anything in his power for a friend. He was a great power in elections. My uncle, John Cundiff, killed Eli Bowling. Bowling was a bully, a man of great power. He led my uncle to old Bill Dancers house, where old Millie Henson lived. They had a quarrel about the woman. Bowling kicked my uncle, a small man. He went away and came back with a dirk knife, called Bowling to the door, and plunged it into him. He died in a few minutes. My uncle left the country and never returned. Uncle Sam Lucas took his wife to him. Eli Bowling was a bad man. His son, James "Bar Creek Jim" Bowling, was hunting for my uncle, John, when he met my grandfather Cundiff. Grandfather told "Jim, put that gun down. We have gotten rid of two bad men and let the matter stop." He did so. The Cundiff's of Breathitt County are the same stock...Jan 1898...Eli Bowling was a great rogue. I have heard him tell of stealing his neighbor's horse, put him in a cave, fattened him, cut off his tail, trimmed his ears, and led him to his neighbor's door a few months afterwards; and the owner did not recognize the horse. He would laugh when he told me. He told it at a horse race at the old tankard, which was above town. He also said he bet a fellow $5 that he could steal his blanket as they were camping on a hunt, and he got it. http://tfkrha.org/Dickey/Dickey_CouchIra.php                 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt75dv1ckr6b