Family
On February 8, 1825, William Duckett Bowie married Eliza Mary Oden, daughter of Benjamin Oden Sr. and Rachael Sophia West. They had five children, Oden Bowie, born December 10, 1826, Catherine Bowie in 1828, William Duckett Bowie, Jr. in November 1830, Christiana Sophia Bowie in 1835 and Walter Baruch Bowie on August 26, 1836. Eliza died in 1849.
On January 7, 1854, William Duckett Bowie married his first wife's half-sister, Mary Black West. They had three girls, Harriet Oden Bowie, Mary Eliza Bowie and Laura Bowie.
After his second marriage Bowie gave Fairview to his eldest son, Oden Bowie and moved to Bellefields near Croom, Maryland which was the old Colonial home of his second wife. Bellefield had originally been the property of Patrick Sim, ancestor of Governor Thomas Sim Lee. Bowie died at Bellefield July 18, 1873 and is interred at Fairview.
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