Levanna was the birth place of Benjamin Clinton Bowen.        The exact place of birth was Mallory Hill or the home of his grandparents, Harrison J. Mallory and Rebecca E. Coddington Mallory.

The map to the right shows the Township of Ledyard on Cayuga Lake in Cayuga County, New York.  Within this Township the Bowen family lived from 1805 till 1901 when Alfred died on the land.   There is no record of the year of death of the year of death of Alfred's wife, Phebe.  It is possible she stayed on the homestead later than 1901.

This road below would have been the trail used by the Bowen family to travel to the towns of Aurora or Levanna for supplies just a few short miles from their homestead. The Lake you see is Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes of Upstate New York.

The village of Levanna was the site of the first newspaper in Cayuga County called the Levanna Gassette.

The Friends Grave yard or Quaker Cemetery where several Bowen ancestors are buried.  Benjamin Bowen and Lucretia Baker son and daughter-in-law of the first Bowen to settle in Cayuga, John Bowen are buried there as well as their son Jessie. 

Benjamin was received to Friends fellowship in Cayuga County in 1811 from Uxbridge, Mass. According to the book, The History of Cayuga County, he was 58 at his death, however the dates on his grave stone and in the Bio found in a Lannsing, MI., library, "James Bowen of Warren, Rhode Island" Benjamin was 68 years old at his death.

" Located on Levanna Rd. a short distance E. of Barbers Corners. this known locally as the " Quaker Cemetery. "The land is said to have been donated by a man by the name of Charles Gifford. There is a substantial iron fence with a gate on the side next to the road. It is in good condition and has been recently painted. A very old boardfence is on the east side. Wire fences are on the south and west sides. The area is around 1/2 acre. The cemetery is shaded by several large maples , Scotch Pine , White Cedar and Norway Spruce trees. The size of these trees indicate they are over 100 yrs. old. A large Horse-Chestnut tree is nearly dead. The Cemetery has been mowed annually. "

BOWEN, Benjamin                         d. 7/26/1859/54 ae 68y/3m/12d   
BOWEN, Lucretia                         d. 5/31/1861 ae 74y/8m/3d
BOWEN, Jesse F.                         d. 10/2/1880 ae 70y/9m/6d

The two pictures above are land that Alfred Bowen had own and farmed during the 1800's.  The memorial to the left is located on the Young's land next to Alfred Bowen's land.  The Young family still live on the property that there great grandparents lived on.  The entire area along the Big Gully was an Indian town before it was settled by the whites.

                                                                        Mrs. Young and Mr. Young owned property next to Alfred Bowen 

View of Cayuga Lake                               

Alfred Bowen and Young land bordered Gully