Mbhs #: 0510
Year Range: 1860s
Location: Eden District aka Phoenix
Location 2: Roxy Ann Butte
First Row: Roxy Ann Hutchinson Hughes Bowen (1807-??)
Source: Evelyn Byrne Williams collection
Notes: Roxy Ann was born in what is now Ontario, Canada. She and sisters Almira and Rhoda Ann married men in Ohio. Roxy Ann moved to Illinois and then Indiana where first husband Henry Hughes died. She married John Bowen in 1838. He had 8 children from two prior marriages, including a daughter Maryum. The large families of the Hutchinson matriarchs (along with father Elias Hutchinson) reunited in Sullivan and Putnam Counties in northern Missouri in the 1840s. Maryum married Almira's son John McKee. John and Maryum McKee, John and Roxy Ann Bowen, and at least 16 other members of this extended clan headed west in a wagon train, reaching the Bear Creek Valley in August 1853. The McKees staked a homestead on the slopes of a butte they named ... Roxy Ann. She died at an unknown time and place (perhaps today's Phoenix) in the 1860s. John Bowen married his 4th wife, Catherine Overholt Bellinger, in Jackson County on March 11, 1869. Catherine was the mother-in-law of John and Roxy Ann's daughter Martha.
