I rec'd this note a moment ago. We all love to open e-Christmas cards....sounds like we need to be careful this year. I double checked to see if this was a hoax and it's not, although all that is described below was not included on the Symantec page and they are still evaluating it. Wednesday December 19 1:58 PM ET Computer Virus Could Render a Very Unhappy New Year By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK (Reuters) - A newly discovered computer worm, sent under guise of a holiday greeting, has popped up in the United States and Europe and, if activated, could destroy personal computers, experts said on Wednesday. The Reeezak worm enters a computer as an e-mail message in Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Outlook with a subject line ``Happy New Year'' and an attachment -- ``Christmas.exe'' -- which a recipient may think is a Christmas card. The worm can disable selective keys on the infected computer's keyboard and delete all the files found in the Windows System Directory, rendering the computer inoperable, said Ian Hameroff, director of antivirus solutions for Computer Associates International Inc. (NYSE:CA - news). Because the worm, a self-propagating virus, sends itself to every e-mail in an address book, recipients are more likely to open the attachment because it appears to come from a recognized source. ``If it were launched in June, many people would be suspicious of it, but since it is the holidays and you may be expecting to receive such greetings from friends and colleagues you may trust this and receive a gift you aren't exactly expecting,'' Hameroff said. Hameroff recommends recipients of e-mail messages that come with unsolicited attachments call the sender to verify they sent it before opening the attachment and possibly activating a virus. Reeezak first appeared in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe and was detected later in the United States, where Hameroff guessed thousands of computers have been infected. Computer Associates rated the worm a medium to high risk. Symantec Corp.'s (Nasdaq:SYMC - news) Security Response unit had not yet rated it Wednesday afternoon and McAfee.com had it at a low risk threat. A message in the body of the Reeezak e-mail reads (with the first word misspelled): ``Hii I can't describe my feelings But all i can say is Happy New Year :) bye'' Other names for the worm are: W32.Zacker.C+mm and W32.Maldal.C+mm.

) ( ( ) Good Morning Family! ( \ .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . \* ) \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . .=|=. \| |// ...and we even have decaf, |~'~| | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! | | \ / _|___|_ ------ (_______) Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. Holiday CHAT: forum is open 3. A few Christmas traditions 4. Just for fun: guess the Christmas song 5. Christmas tree legends & traditions TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Bower[s]/Bauer, Baur or Bowra lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Bower[s]/Bauer, Baur or Bowra ancestors or any of the 81+ variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. If you haven't visited the homesite of this list yet, you are encouraged to do so. Our home is Bower Community, located at <http://bowercommunity.com>. There, we currently have two sites: The Bower Family Homestead [a.k.a., the Homestead] is our primary homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Smaller is our sister site, the Bower Cottage, which houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by cousins from our research groups. Find the Cottage is at <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage>. NEW COUSIN?... HOLIDAY CHAT: FORUM IS OPEN The holiday season is what most people call the "family time" of year. Just as we do every year, I've opened the list for any family discussion outside of our normal genealogy. Every year, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the CHAT: forum opens for everyone to discuss holiday traditions and memories, pass greetings and recipes along, etc. The CHAT: forum is the safe harbor for off-topic discussion. If you have any holiday family traditions or memories you'd like to share, this is the way to do it: As long as CHAT: starts out your subject line, you are considered to be in the CHAT: forum and you can safely discuss non-genealogy subjects. HOWEVER, so everyone understands how this works, there are a few guidelines for the CHAT: forum: 1. You MUST start your subject line with CHAT: 2. Absolutely NO genealogy is to be put in CHAT: forum messages because not everyone in the family wants to read CHAT: messages. Those people know to simply delete messages with CHAT: in the subject line knowing they won't miss any genealogical data. CHAT: format messages are not an everyday occurrence. They normally happen here and there. The only, and longest, time the CHAT: forum is actively open is the holiday season ... now. After January 2nd, the CHAT: forum closes and resumes its normal inactivity with occasional messages only. Please remember everyone, to use the CHAT: forum for all your holiday greetings and traditions messages. And for your own protection, step into the CHAT: forum and start your subject line with CHAT: A FEW CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS There isn't a family alive that doesn't come with its own traditions ... little things handed down through the generations that build together to make a day special. Even a smell will stir the senses and bring back those days gone by. Perhaps it's a small trinket brought out only on certain occasions, or a specific dish prepared just for "that" day, "that time of year." The traditions below may not stir memories of your ancestors, but each will give you a corner on the life of the people who lived at the time these memorable pieces of nostalgia originated. Little Jack Horner, Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie. He stuck in his thumb And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!" What in the word would this have to do with anything ~ well, other than the fact that Jack was eating Christmas pie? Jack Horner was chief steward to the abbot of Glastonbury in the early sixteenth century. The abbot, worried that Henry VIII was going to pull down the abbey, tried to bribe the king with the gift of some lands. The abbot ordered a great pie to be baked and in it he put the deeds to twelve of the manors of Glastonbury. Jack Horner was sent off to the king with the pie, but when the king received his gift there were only eleven deeds inside. Jack Horner had indeed pulled out a nice "plum." Remember the nursery rhyme...? Sing a song of six pence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing. Wasn't that a tasty dish to set before the King? A favourite Twelfth Night joke was a surprise pie. A very large amount of pastry was prepared and baked as an empty pie case. Holes were cut in the bottom and live birds and frogs were put inside the pie. Then, as the old nursery rhyme says, "When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing." **Christmas Pudding This dish is a spin-off of one originally enjoyed in the Middle Ages by both rich and poor ~ a spicy porridge called frumenty. To make it yourself, boil wheat in water until it turns into a soft porridge or gruel, add milk, currants and other dried fruit, then add egg yolks and spices such as nutmeg and cinnamon. Finally, cook the frumenty mixture into a kind of stiff pudding. In some Scandinavian countries porridge is still part of a traditional Christmas meal. **Plum Pudding According to a very old tradition, everyone in the family has to stir the Christmas pudding mixture. This brings good health and luck to each member of the family in the coming year. The day reserved for the stirring was "Stir-Up Sunday," the fifth Sunday before Christmas, the reason being that in the prayer book for this Sunday of the year, it says, "Stir up, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the will of thy faithful people." In the nineteenth century, instead of fresh plums it contained prunes which are dried plums. Gradually the prunes gave way to other dried fruit, especially currants, sultanas and raisins. **Mince Pies Reaching popularity in the Victorian age, the history of mince pie is a long one. In the twelfth century, knights returning from the Crusades in the Holy Land introduced to Europe many Middle Eastern ways of cooking, which mixed sweet tastes with savoury, and recipes of meat cooked with fruit and sweet spices were popular. In Elizabethan times, mince pies were still a mixture of meat and fruit and were called "shrid" pies because they contained shredded meat and suet. The meat and suet were mixed with dried fruit such as raisins and currants, and it was traditional to add three spices - cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg - which stood for the three gifts given to Jesus by the Wise Men. The mixture was baked in an oblong pastry case to represent Jesus' crib. A little pastry baby often decorated the lid. It was thought lucky to eat a mince pie on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Each pie would be eaten in a different house in order to bring good luck to the household and the eater for the next twelve months. JUST FOR FUN ... GUESS THE CHRISTMAS SONG Example: Bleached Yule = White Christmas 1. Boulder of the Tinkling Metal Spheres 2. Castaneous-colored Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration 3. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors 4. Righteous Darkness 5. Arrival Time: 2400 hrs - Weather: Cloudless 6. Loyal Followers Advance 7. Far Off in a Feeder 8. Array the Corridor 9. Bantam Male Percussionist 10. Monarchial Triad 11. Nocturnal Noiselessness 12. Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers 13. Red Man En Route to Borough 14. Frozen Precipitation Commence 15. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle 16. The Quadruped with the Vermilion Proboscis 17. Query Regarding Identity of Descendant 18. Delight for this Planet 19. Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings 20. The Dozen Festive 24 Hour Intervals Answers are at the end of the Coffee. No fair peeking! :) CHRISTMAS TREE LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS The Egyptians were part of a long line of cultures that treasured and worshipped evergreens. When the winter solstice arrive, they brought green date palm leaves into their homes to symbolize life's triumph over death. The Romans celebrated the winter solstice with a fest called Saturnalia in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture. They decorated their houses with greens and lights and exchanged gifts. They gave coins for prosperity, pastries for happiness, and lamps to light one's journey through life. Centuries ago in Great Britain, woods priests called Druids used evergreens during mysterious winter solstice rituals. The Druids used holly and mistletoe as symbols of eternal life, and place evergreen branches over doors to keep away evil spirits. The Celts for example decorated trees with apples and nuts during the winter solstice (around December 21), encouraging the sun to return to bring spring. Late in the Middle Ages, Germans and Scandinavians placed evergreen trees inside their homes or just outside their doors to show their hope in the forthcoming spring. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from these early traditions. Legend has it that Martin Luther began the tradition of decorating trees to celebrate Christmas. One crisp Christmas Eve, about the year 1500, he was walking through snow-covered woods and was struck by the beauty of a group of small evergreens. Their branches, dusted with snow, shimmered in the moonlight. When he got home, he set up a little fir tree indoors so he could share this story with his children. He decorated it with candles, which he lighted in honor of Christ's birth. Until about 1700, the use of Christmas trees appears to have been confined to the Rhine River District. From 1700 on, when lights were accepted as part of the decorations, the Christmas tree was well on its way to becoming a tradition in Germany. Then the tradition crossed the Atlantic with the Hessian soldiers. According to legend, the Hessian mercenaries were so reminded of home by a candlelit evergreen tree that they abandoned their guardposts to eat, drink and be merry. Washington attacked that night and defeated them. Learning about the traditions handed down through the generations enables us to appreciate just what prompts us to annually restore those trappings of a joyous and decorative holiday season. It's family ... and that's what we're all about. I so enjoyed spending this time with you today. Thank you for sharing it with me. I wish each of you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love and inner peace. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.' CHRISTMAS SONG ANSWERS: 1. Jingle Bell Rock 2. Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire 3. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth 4. 0 Holy Night 5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear 6. 0 Come, All Ye Faithful 7. Away in a Manger 8. Deck the Hall 9. Little Drummer Boy 10. We Three Kings 11. Silent Night 12. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen 13. Santa Claus is Coming to Town 14. Let it Snow 15. Go, Tell It on the Mountain 16. Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer 17. What Child is This? 18. Joy to the World 19. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 20. The Twelve Days of Christmas

Thought it would be neat to read how ancestors celebrated. http://www.victoriana.com/christmas/ Lita

Thanks for the hoax warning about the sulfnbk.exe file and thanks for warning us about all the viruses and hoaxes that you warn us about. We sure appreciate your looking out for us. Carol Morrison ----- Original Message ----- From: Colleen Pustola <ladyaudris@earthlink.net> To: <BOWER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:16 AM Subject: [BOWER] CHAT: HOAX WARNING ~ THE VIRUS THAT **ISN'T** > Hi everyone, > > Well, this is a different kind of warning. Normally, I'd warn you of a > virus that you need to be wary of. I am this time too, but this time > the virus isn't really a virus; it's a hoax. > > A message has begun to circulate through Rootsweb's lists warning > everyone that if you have the sulfnbk.exe file in your computer (you're > instructed to do a 'find'), you're supposed to delete it, then empty > your trash bin. Doing so will remove the "infection." > > The file isn't an infection, nor is it caused from/the result of any > virus. It's a necessary file in your computer that allows you to use > more than 8 characters to name a file. > > Please read this from > <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning .html>: > > "This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in > the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows utility that is > used to restore long file names, and like any .exe file, it can be > infected by a virus that targets .exe files. > "The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an attachment named > Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used by Windows is located in the > C:\Windows\Command folder. If the file is located in any other folder, > or arrives as an attachment to a email message, then it is possible that > the file is infected. > "If you have deleted the Sulfnbk.exe file from the C:\Windows\Command > folder and want to know how to restore the file, see the How to restore > the Sulfnbk.exe file section at the end of this document." > > With all the true viruses going around, people are jumping quickly on > this one and removing the file. While removing it won't cause your > computer to crash, it will cause YOU another headache when you can't > figure out why you can't name files like you normally would. > > It is necessary that we all begin to check for ourselves the antivirus > sites to see if a virus is real or a hoax. Following are just some of > the ones that I know of: > > Symantec: <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html> > McAfee: <http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp?> > vMyths.com: <http://www.Vmyths.com/> > Hoaxbusters: <http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/> > > And to find even more hoax-warning sites, try here: > <http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/aboutvirushoaxes/index.htm>. > > If you have already received the sulfnbk.exe warning and followed > through by deleting the file, Symantec and McAfee have the steps you > need to restore it. For Symantec's instructions, simply click on the > hyperlink I gave you earlier and scroll to the bottom of the page. > McAfee's instructions are here: > <http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99084&>. > > Should you receive the hoax message, please don't propagate this by > passing it on. Just delete it and perhaps help your friends/relatives > by passing this message along to them. > > I wish you all a FANTASTICALLY FUN Friday! :) > > Colleen > > > ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. >

Hi everyone, Well, this is a different kind of warning. Normally, I'd warn you of a virus that you need to be wary of. I am this time too, but this time the virus isn't really a virus; it's a hoax. A message has begun to circulate through Rootsweb's lists warning everyone that if you have the sulfnbk.exe file in your computer (you're instructed to do a 'find'), you're supposed to delete it, then empty your trash bin. Doing so will remove the "infection." The file isn't an infection, nor is it caused from/the result of any virus. It's a necessary file in your computer that allows you to use more than 8 characters to name a file. Please read this from <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html>: "This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows utility that is used to restore long file names, and like any .exe file, it can be infected by a virus that targets .exe files. "The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an attachment named Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used by Windows is located in the C:\Windows\Command folder. If the file is located in any other folder, or arrives as an attachment to a email message, then it is possible that the file is infected. "If you have deleted the Sulfnbk.exe file from the C:\Windows\Command folder and want to know how to restore the file, see the How to restore the Sulfnbk.exe file section at the end of this document." With all the true viruses going around, people are jumping quickly on this one and removing the file. While removing it won't cause your computer to crash, it will cause YOU another headache when you can't figure out why you can't name files like you normally would. It is necessary that we all begin to check for ourselves the antivirus sites to see if a virus is real or a hoax. Following are just some of the ones that I know of: Symantec: <http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html> McAfee: <http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp?> vMyths.com: <http://www.Vmyths.com/> Hoaxbusters: <http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/> And to find even more hoax-warning sites, try here: <http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/aboutvirushoaxes/index.htm>. If you have already received the sulfnbk.exe warning and followed through by deleting the file, Symantec and McAfee have the steps you need to restore it. For Symantec's instructions, simply click on the hyperlink I gave you earlier and scroll to the bottom of the page. McAfee's instructions are here: <http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99084&>. Should you receive the hoax message, please don't propagate this by passing it on. Just delete it and perhaps help your friends/relatives by passing this message along to them. I wish you all a FANTASTICALLY FUN Friday! :) Colleen

I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I might get lucky and someone new on the list might be working this line. John BOWER married first name Frances.They had two sons:Fred Eugene BOWER and John BOWER Family rumor has it that John BOWER Sr. was killed in some kind of accident in a steal mill. Fred Eugene BOWER b. 30 Jul 1875 in New York, married to Blanche Bluenna BENSON. Fred Eugene BOWER disappeared from the family farm in Grandview, Yakima Co., WA on 27 July 1939 and was never found, so no death record exists. Fred and Blanche had five children; Glenn Roscoe BOWER b. 18 Nov 1891 d. 26 Mar 1966 in Homer Alaska, Gerald Fred BOWER b. 16 Oct. 1896 in Eden Michigan d. 3 NOv 1954 in Grandview, Washington, Ethel BOWER b.13 Feb 1900 in Everett, Washington d. 24 Jul 1966 in Yakima Washington, Maurice BOWER b.9 April 1907 d. 25 Aug 1908 in Krupp Washington, and Frank Lester BOWER b. 5 Oct 1909 in Mt Vernon, Washington d. 5 Jul 1972 in Wapato, Washington. John BOWER b. 17 Feb 1881 in Syracuse New York and died 18 Nov 1944. John's wife was Elizabeth CUMINS.John and Elizabeth had 4 children; Agnes Frances BOWER b. 30 Sep 1902 in Wisconsin d. 29 Sep 1969 in Kalamazoo Michigan, Charles Eugene BOWER b. 15 May 1904 Allegon, Michigan d. 25 Mar 1977 in Kalamazoo, MI, Clarence John BOWER b. 31 Dec 1906 Moline, Michigan d. 17 June 1997 Kalamazoo MI., and Violet Virginia BOWER b. 18 Oct 1909 in South Boardman, Michigan, d. 10 Jul 1980. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Kerry Turley <>< 304 E. Woodin Rd. Sunnyside, WA 98944

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUR] BAUR in OH, MI, IL, CO, MO, NY Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:28:24 -0700 Resent-From: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:28:17 EST From: DMHEBNER@aol.com Reply-To: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com Dear Listers, Looking for information on the following family. Is anyone else researching this Baur family? Emil Baur (1831-1894) was active with the "Ora Labora" colony in Michigan. He had a brother Theodore Baur in Ohio, a sister Clara Baur who founded the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, as well as relatives in St. Louis MO. Please contact me if you are connected to this family or can offer any assistance. Thanks....Diana M. Hebner dmhebner@aol.com Descendants of Emil BAUR 1 BAUR, Emil Born: 01 February 1831 in Haiterbach (near Stuttgart), Wurttemberg, Germany Died: 08 March 1894 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan +HERZER, Bertha Born: 1839 in Saxony Married: Abt. 1857 in Grass Lake Died: 24 December 1917 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio ......... 2 BAUR, Bertha Born: 17 July 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio Died: 1940 ...... 2 BAUR, Bertrand R. Born: 13 April 1860 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Died: 16 May 1940 in Huron County, Michigan .......... +SUSS, Mary E. Born: 17 September 1858 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Died: 27 March 1938 in Huron County, Michigan ...... 2 BAUR, Herman Born: Abt. 1862 in Ohio ...... 2 BAUR, Clara Born: Abt. 1865 in Michigan Died: Abt. 1870 ...... 2 BAUR, Emil F. Born: Abt. 1867 in Michigan Died: 25 August 1935 in Cook County, Illinois .......... +BECKER, Mayme W. Born: Abt. 1877 in Illinois Married: Abt. 1897 ...... 2 BAUR, William F. Born: Abt. 1871 ...... 2 BAUR, Adelbert C. Born: Abt. 1873 in Michigan Died: 24 September 1941 in Cook County, Illinois .......... +CUMMINGS, Mamie A. Born: Abt. 1882 in Iowa Married: Abt. 1902 ...... 2 BAUR, Wanda Constance Born: Abt. March 1883 in Michigan Died: 09 February 1967 in New York City, New York County, New York .......... +CLIFTON, Chalmers Dancy Born: 30 April 1889 in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi Married: 28 July 1919 in New York Died: 19 June 1966 in New York City, New York ==== BAUR Mailing List ==== Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I subscribe to OH-FOOTSTEPS list and this message appeared this morning. Fran Subj: Misc Allen Co. Births Date: 12/12/01 9:14:53 AM Eastern Standard Time From: ldjdd1@im3.com (Linda Dietz) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com These births were taken from newspaper obits ARMENTROUT, Etta 9 May 1890 BASINGER, Walter A 3 Feb 1886 BOWERS, Lydia K 17 Aug 1894 BOWSHER, Mildred A 15 Oct 1909 BRENNEMAN, Beryl 13 Jan 1888 BUCHER, Mabel R 19 Jun 1912 CAROLUS, Ida 16 Oct 1876 CHAPMAN, Bessie 29 Oct 1883 CLEMENS, Warren K 28 Oct 1916 COON, James H 14 May 1899 COON, G. Lyle 27 Feb 1915 CREPS, Paul E 2 Aug 1917 EBLING, Goldie I 4 May 1891 FETTER, Erma F 5 Jan 1900 FOCHT, Mary F 16 Sep 1926 FRANKLIN, Eugene D 12 May 1908 FREDERICKS, C. Imogene 24 Nov 1927 GARMATTER, Violet V 9 Sep 1913 GOLDSMITH, Patricia D 31 Jul 1929 GROSS, Iona M 25 May 1915 HAY, Mary I 9 Jan 1911 HEFNER, David H 14 Mar 1918 HEFNER, Fred A 5 May 1901 HEFNER, Martin V 1 Nov 1913 HELSER, Paul V 29 Sep 1925 HERBST, Roger K 2 Oct 1916 HEROLD, Louis G 31 May 1899 HERR, Wayde W 18 Sep 1917 HERRING, Harold G 31 May 1899 HERRON, John J 2 Apr 1897 HERSHBERGER, William H 9 Sep 1917 HINKLE, Frank W 17 Apr 1903 HIXENBAUGH, Don 20 Sep 1898 HIXENBAUGH, Wilbur N 23 Sep 1917 HOAK, Crayton 9 Feb 1886 HOFFERBERT, Clarence P 27 Jun 1895 HOLLY, Leslie E.A. 7 Apr 1900 HOLMES, Eva M 23 Sep 1901 HOLTZAPPLE, Paul G 10 Feb 1913 HOLTZAPPLE, Russell J 16 Sep 1906 HOMAN, David O 9 May 1916 HULLINGER, Lois F 12 Oct 1922 JACOBS, Betty J 4 Jul 1922 JONES, Ollie 1907 LEHMAN, Dorothy B 3 Jun 1922 LEWIS, Margaret L 25 Sep 1898 LONG, Jennie E 2 Jan 1887 LYLE, Marian J 16 Mar 1908 McBRIDE, Brice 21 Jul 1891 McCLAIN, Howard R 30 Oct 1887 McCLAIN, Nettie A 9 Mar 1877 McCLAIN, Harry 11 Dec 1892 McCLAIN, Edward 14 Apr 1915 McCONNELL, Mary E 22 Mar 1907 McCOT, Walter A 18 Jun 1898 McCOY, Charles J 26 Apr 1889 McDORMAN, Margaret E 31 Mar 1900 McELWAIN, Edgar M 15 Sep 1890 McKINNEY, Donovan S 17 Feb 1897 METZGER, Adda L 8 Oct 1898 MILLER, Nina A 30 Sep 1900 MOTTER, Venard W 15 Nov 1915 MURRAY, Beulah E 13 Dec 1888 NEWLAND, Richard E 4 Apr 1927 NIXON, Gerald L 27 Oct 1913 NOONAN, Robert W 23 Jul 1910 NUNGESTER, Florence A 1 May 1910 NUNGESTER, Gladys G 20 May 1912 PARENT, Bessie M 20 Aug 1920 PLAUGHER, Paul E 11 May 1928 POST, L. Howard 1 Mar 1915 REED, Ruth M 16 Sep 1901 RICE, Calvin E 6 Feb 1926 ROEDER, Cathryn E 3 Mar 1902 ROEDER, Mary V 18 Oct 1912 RUPERT, Mary 12 Jul 1904 SAWMILLER, T. Ruth 6 Nov 1904 STEMEN, Dale A 24 Aug 1928 STRUBLE, Galen E 15 Sep 1924 WILSON, Florence A 15 Jul 1887 WORKMAN, Blanche L 5 Sep 1911 Submitted by Linda Dietz Dec 12,2001

Hello I am new to this list, having decided to follow another family line. Samuel Harrison BOWER, born 1845 or 46 in Wilmslow, Cheshire m (1872) Ellen BEAUMONT (b 1851 Meltham, York), and moved to Yorkshire. On the 1881 they were at Top Knowler Hill, Liversedge, York with children Robert H (b Cleckheaton), Arthur H(arrison), Minnie, Louisa and Mary N, all b Liversedge. Arthur Harrison BOWER married Elizabeth Hannah DAVIES and started the Manchester branch, but I have no further information for his siblings. Would love to hear if anyone has connections. Andrea, Leicestershire Researching:- Cheshire:- ROYLE - Ashton upon Mersey, HOLT - Altrincham, BOWER - Wilmslow Lancashire:- ROBERTS, DAVIES, RATCLIFFE, BOND Yorkshire:- BOWER, BEAUMONT London:- COLE, WALLS

) ( ( ) Good Morning Family! ( \ .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . \* ) \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . .=|=. \| |// ...and we even have decaf, |~'~| | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! | | \ / _|___|_ ------ (_______) Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. Holiday CHAT: forum is open 3. Christmas in New England TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Bower[s]/Bauer, Baur or Bowra lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Bower[s]/Bauer, Baur or Bowra ancestors or any of the 81+ variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. If you haven't visited the homesite of this list yet, you are encouraged to do so. Our home is Bower Community, located at <http://bowercommunity.com>. There, we currently have two sites: The Bower Family Homestead [a.k.a., the Homestead] is our primary homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Smaller is our sister site, the Bower Cottage, which houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by cousins from our research groups. Find the Cottage is at <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage>. NEW COUSIN?... HOLIDAY CHAT: FORUM IS OPEN The holiday season is what most people call the "family time" of year. Just as we do every year, I'm opening the list up for any family discussion outside of our normal genealogy. Every year, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, the CHAT: forum opens for everyone to discuss holiday traditions and memories, pass greetings and recipes along, etc. The CHAT: forum is the safe harbor for off-topic discussion. Does anyone have any holiday family traditions or memories they'd like to share? As long as CHAT: starts out your subject line, you are in CHAT: forum and you can safely discuss non-genealogy subjects. HOWEVER, so everyone understands how this works, there are a few guidelines for the CHAT: forum: 1. You MUST start your subject line with CHAT: 2. Absolutely NO genealogy is to be put in CHAT: forum messages because not everyone in the family wants to read CHAT: messages. Those people know to simply delete messages with CHAT: in the subject line knowing they won't miss any genealogical data. CHAT: format messages are not an everyday occurrence. They normally happen here and there. The only, and longest, time the CHAT: forum is actively open is the holiday season ... now. After January 2nd, the CHAT: forum closes and resumes its normal inactivity with occasional messages only. Please remember everyone, to use the CHAT: forum for all your holiday greetings and traditions messages. And for your own protection, step into the CHAT: forum and start your subject line with CHAT: CHRISTMAS IN NEW ENGLAND "...in the air there's a feeling of Christmas..." Perhaps "the feeling" of Christmas stems from all the lovely seasonal cards one receives. Possibly it is a childhood memory that stirs the consciousness; or the lyrics of a popular song extolling the beauty of a white Christmas hundreds of miles away... "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire..." "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening..." "Silver bells, silver bells, it's Christmastime in the city..." Of all the regions in the world, hearing those songs reminds me of none other than the New England area of the United States ~ at this time of the year, a region usually covered under a quiet blanket of pristine white. Nostalgia... a word used to equate a New England Christmas... I see: ...young girls' hair wrapped in fur-covered hoods, their hands in white-fur muffs rather than gloves. ...single-horse sleighs with the animals' breath smoking into the wind. Bells jingle with every movement of the horse. ...old bridges, and ponds covered with thick sheets of ice. ...Christmas trees standing in the windows of early 19th century homes. ...fresh balsam wreaths decorated with a red bow, hanging on the white doors of Federal-style homes. I sense old-fashioned Christmas, surrounded by snow, mountains and white steepled churches. What a perfect New England Christmas image! Traditionally, in smaller New England towns people gather just after dusk on one end, light candles, sing Christmas carols and stroll to the town square where Santa pulls a switch to light the public Christmas tree in celebration of the start of the holiday season. Those same people may be strangers to each other by name yet they all share the same songs, hot chocolate, hot cider and other goodies along the way. Many choralers sing late into the evening. Children dance and bell ringers play carols in a church. A wall of people occupy every available space on the town's main street. Children jump aboard wagons and take a hay ride through the center of town to the square. No one is fighting, yelling, or pushing. It's the population emulating an inner warmth of camaraderie as part of something much larger themselves. The New England Christmas dominates today's holiday imagery, yet northern celebrations were much more subdued before the Civil War, especially in New England where the legacy of Puritanism ran deep. In Puritan New England, Christmas wasn't a legal holiday until 1856. Records indicate the first Christmas in the new world passed uneventfully. Some of the new settlers celebrated Christmas, while most did not. The Mayflower Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth in December 1620, determined to banish Christmas from the public calendar. Since December 25th wasn't selected as the birth date of Christ until several centuries after his death, they didn't consider Christmas a truly religious day. Within a year, they had instead set aside a day for giving thanks to the Lord for all their blessings and celebrated it sporadically throughout the following decades. But they pointedly ignored Christmas. Additionally, the holiday celebration usually included drinking, feasting, and playing games - all things which the Puritans frowned upon. Puritan leader Cotton Mather condemned the "long eating, hard drinking, lewd gaming, rude revelling" that accompanied the Christmas holiday, noting that such actions "have more of hell than heaven" in them. One such tradition, "wassailing" occasionally turned violent. The older custom entailed people of a lower economic class visiting wealthier community members and begging, or demanding, food and drink in return for toasts to their hosts' health. If a host refused, there was the threat of retribution. Although rare, there were cases of wassailing in early New England. Finally, the British had been applying pressure on the Puritans for a while to conform to English customs. The ban was probably as much political as it was religious for many. The events of the second Christmas celebrated by Puritans in Massachusetts were documented by the group's governor, William Bradford. Sickness had wiped out many of their group, and for the first time they were facing hostility by one of the Native American tribes in the area. Bradford recorded that on the morning of the 25th, he had called everyone out to work, but some men from the newly arrived ship "Fortune" told him it was against their conscience to work on Christmas. He responded he would spare them "until they were better informed." But when he returned at noon, he found them playing games in the street. His response, as noted in his writings was: "If they made the keeping of it matter of devotion, let them keep their houses, but there should be no gameing or revelling in the streets." That second Christmas was the first time the celebration was forbidden in Massachusetts, but the ban didn't make it into the law books until several years later. As the settlement grew, and more English emigrated to the area, tensions grew between the Puritans and British. The more pressure the English king exerted on the colonists, the more they resisted. In 1659, the ban became official. The General Court banned the celebration of Christmas and other such holidays at the same time it banned gambling and other lawless behavior, grouping all such behaviors together. The court punished anyone "found observing, by forbearing from labor, feasting, or any other way, any days such as Christmas [Day]," under penalty of a 5-shillings fine, imprisonment or whipping. The ban was revoked in 1681 by an English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban against festivities on Saturday night. But even after the ban was lifted, the majority of colonists still abstained from celebrations. Samuel Sewell, whose diary of life in Massachusetts Bay Colony was later published, made a habit of watching the holiday - specifically how it was observed - each year. "Carts came to town and Shops open as is usual. Some, somehow, observe the day; but are vexed, I believe, that the Body of the People profane it, - and, blessed be God! no Authority yet to compell them to keep it," Sewell wrote in 1685. For the following two centuries, American southerners celebrated the holiday with increasing heartiness, while those to the north, influenced by Puritans, either ignored or censured Christmas, calling it a celebration of pagan revelry. Other religious sects such as Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Mennonites, Amish and Brethren, tended to agree. On the other side, the Anglican (Episcopal), Dutch Reformed, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches all held to the tradition of Christmas. Thus the South, settled mostly by Anglicans, made merry on December 25th. A British actress, Fanny Kemble, wrote in 1832, "Comparatively no observances of tides and times punctuated the American years. Christmas day is no religious day and hardly a holiday with them. New-year's day is perhaps a little, and only a little more so. For Twelfth-day, it is unknown; and the household private festivals of birthdays are almost universally passed by unserved from the rest of the toilsome days devoted to the curse of labor." Several things helped the Puritans change their attitudes towards Christmas. Among them was Clement Moore's poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the night before Christmas...," 1822) and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). The success of the latter work and the many other Christmas books and articles Dickens wrote later was greatly amplified by the rise of large-scale commercial publishing and helped fix the Victorian era as the classic Christmas setting throughout the English-speaking world. Other contributors to the Victorian Christmas tradition include Prince Albert, husband of Victoria, who popularized the Christmas tree, previously a German custom. Also contributing to holiday traditions was English artist John C. Horsley. In 1843, the same year "A Christmas Carol" appeared, Horsley designed the first Christmas card, depicting a family party with the words "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" below. Slowly, the cultures of the South began to bleed across the regional borders... As early as 1856, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow detected "a transition state about Christmas here in New England. ...The old puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty holiday, though every year makes it more so." However, it was the sentiment that Christmas evoked during the Civil War that gained the holiday greater prominence over any other. As George Templeton Strong wrote in 1862, "Christmas is a great institution, especially in time of trouble and disaster and impending ruin." Even though Harper’s Weekly printed Thomas Nast's renderings of Santa Claus with Union affections, Northern publications did acknowledge at the time that Christmas had never been fully observed in America, except in the South. Soon, fevered commentaries were being printed, denouncing the Puritan restrictions and celebrating new American traditions for Christmas. The first New England settlers dined on meals of pork, apple pie and hedgehog pudding. Today's New England Christmas dinner follows the same basic menu as that of Thanksgiving, though some families have ham or roast goose instead of turkey. Traditional is the Lumberjack Pie ~ a mashed potato crust, filled with meats, onion and cinnamon. Favorite desserts include pumpkin pie, fruitcake, plum pudding, and mince pie. It would be interesting to see what our descendants think of our celebrations, and how many of our customs will be looked upon as being nostalgic and continued as family traditions. A great deal of information is obtained from letters and diaries describing family or local celebrations, provided we write down our family traditions. Otherwise, how will future generations know how we celebrated our holidays today? After all, it's family ... and that's what we're all about. I so enjoyed spending this time with you today. Thank you for sharing it with me. I wish each of you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love and inner peace. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'

If you're using Outlook for e-mail, you might want to go the the Microsoft page and download any recent patches since many viruses target Outlook.

Donna is right. I have..... but I am still getting them once in awhile( not as frequent as before). So be careful! I even up graded to 6.0. Gloria ----- Original Message ----- From: Donna Hinson To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: [BOWER] Viruses If you're using Outlook for e-mail, you might want to go the the Microsoft page and download any recent patches since many viruses target Outlook.

Hi cousins, This is your FINAL REMINDER that today is the deadline for Christmas gifts to be put under our family tree. If you have one (or more) please send them directly to me at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. Yes, I can extend you until tomorrow (Sunday, 9 December), but that's about as far as I can do it. Please let me know if you need this extension so I'll know to expect something from you and can plan my "gift-wrapping" time accordingly. I hope this finds you all having a SUPER SUNNY Saturday! :) Colleen

Folks, be careful mema@penn.com has been infected with the virus. I have e-mailed and told them. It only came as "Mema" The sbject line was : Re: [BOWER] STATE LIBRARY OF PA Gloria http://hardincogenealogycenter.homestead.com/index.html

The Old Home Place is Beautiful!!! Thank You Colleen for all your hard and never ending work! You always make it seem so special! Gloria Motter http://hardincogenealogycenter.homestead.com/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: Colleen Pustola To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:53 PM Subject: [BOWER] CHAT: IT'S CHRISTMAS AT THE HOMESTEAD! Hi family, Yep! Our home is decorated for the holidays!

Colleen, Thank you for the wonderful Antebellum Christmas traditions.

Hi family, Yep! Our home is decorated for the holidays! yeaaayyyy It only took me THREE harddrives to get everything online this year! (really!) Our family tree is the same one as the past two years, I'm afraid. It took me so long to do the front page, and almost as long to do a new tree page. When my 2nd harddrive crashed I was able to save part of the front page, but nothing of the tree page. So, we're just 'stuck' with the same family page until next year. :-| ~ It was either this or have to wait yet another week for me to get the new tree page done. We're running out of time. <g> I did something different this year. Now, when you go into the house, and sit in the main hallway, you'll see a bright yellow "here it is" just under the parlor link (Internet Explorer) and it'll be blinking (Netscape Explorer only). Actually, the pages will view best with Internet Explorer on the 800x600 setting, 16 million colors (or something high like that!). :) Are you a new cousin? WELCOME to YOUR first family Christmas with us! You can see our home all decorated for the holidays by clicking here <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. One more thing I need to address... Christmas gifts. I have received only 3 from cousins. The 8 December deadline is quickly approaching. Are we not going to have 'Santa' visit us this year? I'll still put the three gifts under the tree for Christmas Day, but cousins ~ is this really what you want???? If you have gifts that you just haven't sent yet, you can email them to me at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. I wish you all a THRILLING Thursday! E.R.'s on tonite! yeaaayyy!! :) Colleen

Found some information concerning one of my ancestor presidents here http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedprs.html. Perhaps of interest to someone else. PR

Have rec'd a note from some friends about another virus W32.Goner.A@mm. The subject line of the e-mail says "Hi" and describes and has an attachment that has a screen saver...."gone.scr." Do not open the attachment and delete the note immediately should you receive it.

This link was sent to another list - there are a couple of Bower/Bowers listed http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp