HIs death certificate records Reese Madison Bowling, age 78 years 24 days, born 22 Feb 1833 in Scott Co., Virginia, died 23 Mar 1911 in Crackersneck precinct, Elliott Co., Kentucky, married, farmer, father Garrrod Bowling, mother’s maiden name Nancy Vansant, both born in Virginia, cause of death cerebral apoplexy only lived a few minutes after attack - at home, informant Charlott Bowling, Newfoundland, Ky, burial on J. N. King’s farm.

The county may be wrong; his parents were married in Tazewell Co., and they probably did not move to Scott Co. until later in his childhood.