 Bowman Foster Stockwell was born on 17 September 1899 to his parents, Reverend Eugene S. Stockwell (1865–1921) and Addie Bunnell Stockwell (1865–1926).There is a discrepancy where he was born in Shawnee, Ohio or in the state of Oklahoma.Bowman Foster Stockwell had three siblings; however two of them passed away as children