Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884
MORGAN COUNTY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 327
DAVID BOTHWELL was born in Ireland June 9, 1815, and is a son of
Hugh and Ann J. (Gordon) Bothwell, botn natives of Ireland, the former
born in 1788, the latter in 1796. They were married and died in Ireland,
he in September, 1854, and she eight years later. Their family was Mary,
David, Jane, Sarah A., Samuel, John, Elizabeth, Martha, Henry, James,
Margaret and two which died in infancy. David Bothwell emigrated to
America in 1841, visited Ireland in 1846, returned to this country in 1852,
settled in New Orleans, and shortly afterward removed to this county,
where April 8, 1855, he married Miss Letitia, daughter of Robert and
Jane Wilson, and born in Ireland in 1825, who died September 18, 1878,
the mother of eight children--Ann J. (deceased), Hugh H., John J., Mary,
David, Charles, William and Andrew. Mr. Bothwell is a highly respected
citizen.
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