Allie Goodwin Myrick Bowden was born on 31 December 1895 at the Dovedale Plantation in Baldwin County, Georgia. She attended Georgia Normal and Industrial College (present day Georgia College and State University) in Milledgeville, Georgia from 1911 to 1915 and earned her B.A. degree. In 1921, she graduated from Columbia University and went on to teach psychology at the Georgia College and State University and became head of the psychology department. On 1 August 1923 she married Captain Edwin T. Bowden, an officer in the U.S. Army, then professor of military science and tactics at the Georgia Military College. Until Edwin's death in 1963, Allie played the demanding role of army wife while her husband served at Ft. Benning and Ft. Screven in Georgia, South Carolina, Hawaii, Wyoming, Washington, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Rhode Island. From 1942 to 1945, Allie lived in Macon, Georgia, while her husband served in North Africa, Italy, and Belgium. Following the end of World War II, she and her family were stationed in Ohio and Washington, D.C. She continued to live in the D.C. area until 1973, when she moved to Austin, Texas to be closer to her children. Bowden died on 27 October 1993. Her collection of family Genealogies were published in 1952 of the branch of the Myrick - Merrick line in the south United States. In 1902 George Byron Merrick also published this same family line genealogies documenting the four brothers of royal lines who came from wales in about 1636, William, James, John, and Thomas Meyrick from Walse. This book is now out of copyright and until now out of print. On agreement with Susan Myrick the Merrick Foundation Org has republished this genealogical record for preservation of family history with the proceeds from the sale going to Merrick Foundation charity. For more Myrick - Merrick genealogy visit YahBible.com or the Foundation web site at MerrickFoundation.Org