Ephatha Reese 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 18 Oct 1786
    Christening: 
          Death: 19 Dec 1861 - Washington, Wilkes Co., Georgia 1
         Burial: in Resthaven Cem., Washington, Wilkes Co., Georgia
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Benjamin Reese (      -1805)
         Mother: Sarah James (      -After 1827)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Thomas Bowdre (29 Mar 1777 - 10 Aug 1846)
       Marriage: 19 Dec 1805 - Columbia Co., Georgia 2
Notes
General:
OBITUARY:

This obituary at Find-a-Grave Memorial #45370239 is from an unknown newspaper. Note that the death month is different from that on the tombstone.

Died, in Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., on the 19th of Decmeber, 1861, in the seventy-sixth year of her age, Mrs. EPSEY BOWDRE, wife of Thomas Bowdre, late of Columbia county, Ga.
Mrs. BOWDRE was married to her late husband in 1804. Brought up in times which immediately succeeded the American Revolution, she imbibed and retained till her death, those ideas of sincerity, frugality and piety, which marked the times above mentioned; . . .
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Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 45370239.

2 "Familysearch.org," "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW44-BLX), Thomas Bowdre and Ephather Rees, 19 Dec 1805; citing Marriage, Columbia, Georgia, FHL microfilm 847,789.

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