«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to VICKY BOWERS-GIELAU <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] Roll call: Henry Wesley Bowers Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:06:27 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:40:43 -0800 From: VICKY BOWERS-GIELAU <[email protected]> Organization: @Home Network Member To: [email protected] Henry Wesley Bowers b. Jan. 20, 1895 we are not sure where. d. July 12, 1971 according to headstone. The other dates for his death are May 31, 1971 and June 5, 1971. The family members are sure of one thing and that is 1971. He married; Rose Agnes Pemberton b. Mar. 18, 1898 in N.E. Leicester, Co., Borough, England she died in 1944 after complications from child birth. She bleed to death on the steps of a hospital. She was the daughter of John Gilbert Pemberton and Alice Wells Pemberton. She was sister to two girls and several boys but have no information at this time. She had many children and 6 that survived to adulthood. They had; Victor Frank Bowers b. May 26, 1932 Hough Lake, Ont., Can., d. May 14, 1989 Hillsdale, Ont., Can. His family but one still lives and will not be listed here. His grandson; Michael Ian Russell b. Mar. 13, 1974 Pembroke, Ont., Can., d. Aug. 31, 1997 Edmonton, Alta., Canada. Margaret Murial Bowers-Kydyk b. ? d. 1989 Barrie, Ont., she was married but I do not know Mr. Kydyk in any way other than I know he too is dead. They have children that still live. The rest of their children live, and so do all but one other grandchild; Marjorie Joan Earl-West b. May 3, 1942 d. 1999 of colon cancer. Submitted; V.R. Bowers-Gielau Daughter to Victor Frank Bowers and Mother to Michael Ian Russell Researching; Mills, Fannon, Gielau, Schroeder, Galway, Hodson, Herman, and Bowers. ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bower mailing list -- http://bowercommunity.com/homestead

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to "bbowers" <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BOWER] LAST ROLL CALL FOR THE YEAR 2000 Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:45:00 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:41:22 -0800 From: "bbowers" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> Searching for John and Mary Bowers, both born in Germany, emigrated to Ontario, Canada, Waterloo area, prior to 1859. Gave birth to one son (maybe more?) Moses Bowers, b. 1859 d. 1927. In 1891, Moses married Elizabeth Kunsenhauser (b. 1869 d. 1946). Moses and Elizabeth had 1 son, Russell, b. 1894 d. 1972. Moses and family emigrated to Kingston, Michigan in 1901.

Hi, I was browsing a book, Vital Reocrds of Rhode Island 1636-1850 of Newport Vol 4 part II with births, marriages and deaths. by James N. Arnold. I came across Peter Bourse birth 27 Sept 1707, son of Peter and Bathsheba. Has anyone else found this variant spelling of Bowers? Good Luck Brenda Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore [email protected] http://members.aol.com/fiddlerben/gtindex.html surnames: Wolfgram, Kratochvil, Secor/Sicard, Jacques, Leguerre, Vallee and and

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] BOWER] Roll Call / OH>IN>KS Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:02:36 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:03:04 EST From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hi Gang, This is what I have on my Bowers Family. My Electa (Lettie) Bowers Williamson moved on to Coffey County Kansas abt 1890 and some of her children moved on to California. I did find Electa and John listed on the 1880 Decatur Co, IN census with some of their children.(Fugit Township). Nothing after that. Oscar Descendants of Joel Bowers,* 1 Joel Bowers,* b: Abt. 1806 d: in Delaware, (Ripley Co.) Indiana . +Amy Anthony b: 1808 d: 1851 in Delaware, (Ripley Co.) Indiana ........ 2 Isaiah P. Bowers b: September 21, 1830 d: October 08, 1868 in Delaware, (Ripley Co.) Indiana ............ +Eliza Ann Miller ........ 2 Isaac Bowers b: Abt. 1832 ............ +Catherine Anthony ........ 2 Joel Bowers b: Abt. 1839 ............ +Mary Blackmore ........ 2 Martha Ann Bowers b: April 20, 1841 d: September 19, 1904 ........ 2 Henrietta Augustina Bowers b: April 25, 1843 d: March 26, 1936 in Versailles, (Ripley Co.) Indiana, Cliff Hill Cemetery ............ +William R. Kelly ........ 2 Mary Catherine Bowers b: Abt. 1845 d: Bef. 1860 ........ 2 Jaremiah Bowers b: Abt. 1847 ........ 2 Margaret Elizabeth Bowers b: November 1849 d: Bef. 1860 in Delaware, (Ripley Co.) Indiana *2nd Wife of Joel Bowers,*: . +Mary Wood,* b: Abt. 1830 d: in Delaware, (Ripley Co.) Indiana ........ 2 Electa R. Bowers,* b: Abt. 1854 ............ +John Jacob Williamson,* b:1850 ........ 2 Mercy Bowers b: Abt. 1856 ........ 2 James Bowers b: Abt. 1857 ........ 2 Fannie Bowers b: Abt. 1859 ........ 2 George w. Bowers b: Abt. 1861 ............ +Nancy G. Miller ........ 2 Amity C. Bowers b: Abt. 1862 ........ 2 Francis E. Bowers b: Abt. 1863 ........ 2 George A. Bowers b: Abt. 1866 ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>.

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Deborah Bonnar <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] (BOWERS) ROLL CALL: John H. & Nancy Hoffman Bowers Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:32:43 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:32:27 -0000 From: "deborah.bonnar" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Does anyone have any information about John H. Bowers and his wife, Nancy Hoffman Bowers? The only information I have is that they had a son, Christian H. Bowers, b. 5 June 1840. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Deborah Bonnar [email protected] ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>.

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Deborah Bonnar <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] (BOWERS) ROLL CALL: Edgar Warren Bowers (1872-1942 PA) Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:23:40 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:23:24 -0000 From: "deborah.bonnar" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Edgar Warren Bowers was born 20 January 1872 and died 17 January 1942. 29 January 1896 he married Minnie B. Davis (b. 20 August 1869, d. 15 February 1905). Edgar and Minnie had four sons: Ray L., b. 26 Aug. 1896 Floyd Davis, b. 3 July 1898 in Martinsburg, Blair Co., PA (m. Frieda Cleo Black 1 June 1917), d. October 1977. William C., b. 22 November 1899 Frank C., b. 15 February 1901. Sometime between 15 February 1905 (Minnie's death) and the 1910 Pennsylvania Census, Edgar married Mary C. (Unknown). He is listed in the Census Miracode Index as aged 38 (which supports the date of birth). Mary C. is listed as 37, so she must have been born c. 1873. Two of the four sons are listed: Floyd, aged 12 and William, aged 10. Does anyone have any information at all on Mary C. Bowers, wife of Edgar Warren Bowers? She would have been born about 1873 and they would have married between 1905 and 1910. Does anyone know the fate of Ray L. Bowers, b. 26 August 1896? He would have been 14 if he had lived until the 1910 Census but isn't listed as a member of the household. Does anyone know the fate of Frank C. Bowers, b. 15 February 1901? He would have been 9 if he had lived until the 1910 Census but isn't listed as a member of the household. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Deborah Bonnar [email protected] ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>.

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Deborah Bonnar <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] (BOWERS) ROLL CALL: Christian H. Bowers (1840-1903) Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 03:30:36 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:30:17 -0000 From: "deborah.bonnar" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Christian H. Bowers was born 5 June 1840 and died 30 October 1903. He married Louisa Catharine Longenecker b. after 1836, died after 1878) before 1866. They had three children: Harry Ellwood, b. 3 November 1866 Edgar Warren, b. 20 January 1872 (d. 17 January 1942) Myra G., b. 26 February 1878. I'm told Christian's parents were John H. Bowers and Nancy Hoffman but have no other information about them. I'm told Louisa's parents were David S. Longenecker (b. 5 March 1817, d. 16 April 1895 in Roaring Spring, Blair Co., PA) and Mary E. Fluck (b. 3 October 1822 in Morrison's Cove, Bedford Co., PA), d. 2 September 1847. Does anyone have any further information on Louisa Catharine Longenecker Bowers? Does anyone have information on the fate of Harry Ellwood Bowers, b. 3 November 1866? Does anyone have information on the fate of Myra G. Bowers, b. 26 February 1878? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Deborah Bonnar [email protected] ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== To post messages to the Bower discussion list, send them to [email protected]

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Colleen <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] ROLL CALL: Isaac & Phineas Bower[s] [Isaac: 1776-1844, NY<CT] Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 02:46:00 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 03:44:31 -0700 From: Colleen Pustola <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hi family, I'm still seeking ancestors and descendants of Isaac Bower(s) [b. NY 1776, d. Havana [now Montour Falls], Chemung Co. [now Schuyler], NY 1844]. He m. 1st __?__ who d. Tioga Co. [area now Schuyler Co.] bet. 1811-1818. They had a son, i. Grant Bower, b. NY 1805, d. MI 1873 Isaac m. 2nd, Elinor VanGorder [b. NY 1787, d. NY bet. 1865 & 1870]. Their children: ii. Millicent A., b. NY abt. 1822; m. [1st] William Decker bef. 1844 in Catharine [now Montour Falls], Chemung Co. [now Schuyler], NY; she m. [2nd] Chester V. Mann iii. Isaac N., b. NY 1824 iv. Phineas, b. 1827 NY v. Oliver P., b. 1830 Who was Isaac's first wife and who were the parents of his second wife? Does anyone have confirmation of Isaac's father being Phineas? Did Isaac have a sister named Cynthia who married John Morris? I'd also like to find out if the following gg-uncle was married and had children. The following information was extracted from his Revolutionary War pension file ~~ Joel BOWER[S] was born 20 Feb 1763 in Southampton, Hampshire, England. He was the son of Phine[h]as BOWER[S]. He immigrated to New York about 1768 with his father. If other family members were with them, I don't know. Phine[h]as and Joel lived on Long Island, and at the beginning of the American Revolution, moved to Orange County, NY. Following the War, they moved to Elmira, then Havana in [now] Schuyler County. By 1812 Joel was settling in Ontario Co, NY. That same year he was taken prisoner near Niagara by the British. He was held at the prison in York for "more than two years." If records are available, I don't know... About 1832 Joel settled in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He was in Indiana in 1839, but returned to Pickering that year. Joel was destitute, "with nothing but a bed of straw to lay upon, without food to subsist upon only as he is supplyed by the hand of charity....a perfect cripple unable to get 1/2 a mile from his humble cot." I can't find Joel's whereabouts in Indiana, nor have I been able to find anything about him in Ontario, Canada. I'd like to find out more about him, when he died, where he is buried, and whether or not he had a family in Indiana or Canada. Thanks for any help. Colleen Pustola ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>.

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Warren Bowers <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] Roll Call Bowers, David Corwin b 1830 Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:46:02 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 15:46:38 -0500 From: Warren Bowers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Another plea for help- this time via Roll Call.. Looking for parents of David Corwin Bowers , (my Great-Grandfather) born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1830 (date unknown). Appears on 1850 census in Logan County, Illinois. First marriage was to Delila ?. That marriage produced Cornelius Philander Bowers. Second marriage was to Nancy Carey (my Great Grandmother) in Collinsville, Ill August 4, 1859. Children: Albin, Miranda, Albert, and John. John was my Grandfather. David died 2-9-1876 in Tazewell Co. Ill, after serving in Civil War. Family then moved to Delaware. Any help? Thanks in advance. Warren W. Bowers ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== To post messages to the Bower discussion list, send them to [email protected]

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Patty Shannon <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] roll call Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:00:04 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:00:47 -0600 From: "Shannon" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Searching for information on John Henry Bowers, Hagerstown Maryland, Linn Co Iowa b- 2-20-1829 d-3-29-1882 married 12-30-1851 to Susan Cline, married 8-16-1863 to Barbara Cline. Patty Shannon [email protected] ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>.

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to M.R. Bolitho <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] ROLL CALL--David Bowers Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 12:01:17 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 12:59:54 -0700 From: "mr.bolitho" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hello, listers: I'm searching for the parents of David BOWERS (c. 1779-after 1850) who married Esther HOLE (1788-after 1850). David was born in New Jersey, and married Esther probably in Hampshire County, (West) Virginia. By 1820 they were living in Washington Township, Dearbon County, Indiana, and by 1840 were living in Marion County, Indiana. The name may be anglicized from Baur or Bauer. Thanks! M. R. Bolitho ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Bower Cottage, sister site to the Bower Family Homestead, homesites of the Bower research group -- http://bowercommunity.com/cottage

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Barbara Bowers <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [BOWER] LAST ROLL CALL FOR THE YEAR 2000 Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:45:00 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:52:26 -0800 From: "bbowers" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> Searching for John and Mary Bowers, both born in Germany, emigrated to Ontario, Canada, Waterloo area, prior to 1859. Gave birth to one son (maybe more?) Moses Bowers, b. 1859 d. 1927. In 1891, Moses married Elizabeth Kunsenhauser (b. 1869 d. 1946). Moses and Elizabeth had 1 son, Russell, b. 1894 d. 1972. Moses and family emigrated to Kingston, Michigan in 1901.

Hi cousins, The BOWER-L began a roll call today. Yours will not start till later this week as I'm trying to keep the traffic down for everyone, so PLEASE do NOT post roll call messages yet. Your part in this one right now is just to receive. I'll be crossposting messages from the BOWER-L to you so you won't miss out on any data with your surname spelling. Likewise, when it comes time for your roll call I'll post your messages over to the BOWER-L where we have all the spellings. I just need this largest research group to finish theirs first before having you hold yours. I'll send a message out the day your roll call begins. In the meantime, you'll start seeing crossposted messages starting directly after this message if anyone has posted a query with your surname spelling. Let's see if we can make some bingos from all four groups! I hope this finds you all having a super Sunday! :) Colleen (who is currently being snowed on in Colorado)

) ( ) 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. GENWEB.NET back online 3. Bower Community update 4. Colleen's Chatter If you've been with the family for at least three weeks, you'll probably want to skip the following paragraph… 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 or Baur 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 or Baur 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 main homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://www.bowercommunity/homestead>. Smaller and just opened this year, our sister site, the Bower Cottage, houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by quite a few cousins from our lists. The Cottage is still small as far as material goes, however give us time and we'll have it filled really soon. The Cottage is at <http://www.bowercommunity/cottage>. GENWEB.NET BACK ONLINE Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, Randy Haight brought his hacked domain back online only last night. After a quick look around, it appears everything and everyone is still intact, however it _was_ just a cursory look so don't rely heavily on what I just said. Many of the genweb sites, not knowing whether or not Randy would be able to recover the material, moved their sites to other hosts. If you're new ~ Randy Haight is webmaster of <http://www.genweb.net>, a site which hosts hundreds of free genealogy and history Websites as well as thousands of genealogy lists. His domain was hacked into sometime during the weekend of 7/8 October and it's been offline since that time. I have no idea whether or not the hackers were caught. BOWER COMMUNITY UPDATE With exception of a few wayward files, our home is completely online! YIPPEE!!! We're moved in, we're settled, and any dust bunnies you find laying around are ours ... ALL OURS!!! <g> Has anyone noticed how much faster the pages are loading? It's the ultimate in fantastic that not only is everything showing up like it should, but it's showing up QUICKER! We owe special, special thanks to Gloria Motter <[email protected]> and her team of link checkers ~ Lureigne Gimay <[email protected]> and Lynda Boone <[email protected]>. Together they checked every link on every page at the Homestead and Cottage, finding quite a few dead links and helping me to get us updated and corrected. This is not the most fun job in the world, but it IS a critically important one to make sure we not only connect to everyone (and ourselves) correctly, but to root out those pages that are no longer existent. I thank you so very much ladies. Without your help our sites would still be in the 'moving-in' stage. I still have quite a bit of work left to do with our sites, however my priorities are now shifted. With the WHOPBOF competition just around the corner (starting December 5th) for the Homestead, it's imperative that I concentrate all my time on that effort. However, you can help me a lot, please, by notifying me immediately if you should find any broken graphics or links, or pages not loading there. Our last competition was tough, but this next one will be even worse because this time we compete against all the quarter finals winners for this year. COLLEEN'S CHATTER It's been a long time since I sent a few personal lines in to everyone ... but I wanted to share with you the consummate and majestic beauty of the snowed caps of Pikes Peak I see out my living room window every day. For four days this past week the Peak was enshrouded in gray blankets of clouds, reappearing here and there for a few moments to show us the splendor of her new winter coat of snow. I am always inspired by the solitude and serenity of a heavily-clouded winter morning, knowing that all too soon I'll be wrapped in comforters here at my computer with a heating pad warming my frozen toes! But, I find the beauty of winter surpassed only by the colors of fall. We're supposed to have snow from today until Tuesday. Does anyone have a snowplow I can borrow? :) And as we prepare to enter our season of holidays and 'hibernation', I end this Coffee with ... Happy birthday to all our November babies! The family and I send special greetings that your coming year is filled with health and enjoyment. You are loved! Family ... it's what we're all about ... I so enjoyed this time with you. I hope your upcoming week is filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.' P.S. Happiness is getting your word processor/HTML editor back up and working right after two weeks of fighting and frustration! Today is truly a WONDERFUL day! :)

Hi folks, I found the following BOWERS listing on a database of New York Births and Baptisms, Southeast Region, 1660-1916 which is free at Ancestry.com for the next few days. There were 49 listings for BOWER! To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3711.htm Search Terms: BOWERS (1) Database: New York Births and Baptisms, Southeast Region, 1660-1916 Combined Matches: 1 St Paul's Lutheran Church at West Camp: 1708-1906 Location: Town of Saugerties, Ulster County --- Denomination: Lutheran Child: Mary Elizabeth Reference ID: 1196 Birth Date: 14 Mar 1858 Bapt. Date: 25 Aug 1858 Parents: Charles G. Bowers; Lavina Source: Baptism Record, St Paul’s Lutheran Church, West Camp: 1708-1899 Hope this helps someone. Laurie

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to Merry Ann Simmons <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] Edna May Bowers Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:09:45 -0700 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:08:14 -0700 From: Merry Ann Simmons <[email protected]> To: [email protected] When I was young a friend of my fathers became foster parents. Over time they acquired a large number of siblings that had been placed in homes through out the state. Most of the boys at one time or another worked for my dad so I got to know the family alittle. Now the youngest has asked me to help him find his "family". Andy is the youngest of them all and remembers some, but his older brother added to this what he knew. I have sent letters out to the others to see what they can remember. I know it is along shot but I couldn't say no so here goes. His mother was Edna May Bowers and he thinks she was from around Spencer WV. She married a Ellington who they think was born in Ohio and died around 1974-1975 (the oldest brother was in the service at the time so we know a approximate date) After the Ellington died she married a Charles Bailey of the Spencer area. He said he remembers his grandparents names were Peter & Ellen Purcell of Moundsville WV. He believes Bertha died in Ellenville NY and she had a sister named Carrie. You have to realize I am working of a memory of a 7 year old. While I research the "Bauer" line I am not up on the Bower's in the area. Any help is appreciated. Oh yeah Andy is either 40 or close to it. I forgot to ask his age and since I am doing this by snail mail I thought I would post with what I have. Thanks, Merry Ann ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bower mailing list -- http://www.crosswinds.net/~bowerhomestead

Hi Merry Ann and family, Your idea is really a good one! It parallels the Continuum (a.k.a. the states/country project) we are currently trying to build. You've also pointed out just how much Bower/Bauer, etc. data we all stand a chance to miss out on simply because these individual sites aren't always picked up on the first several pages of a search engine's results. The Continuum was established to bring those sites together in one page. If anyone is interested in hosting a Continuum site, please let me know as we'd like to open sites for all 50 states and the 19 countries our surnames are found in. Currently hosted states are California, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. We also have one country, Australia, hosted. You can visit most of these sites (some are still in the construction phase) by going to the Cottage. Continuum sites can be nothing more than a page of links or a site filled with data; it's the host's choice. The point is to get all those private Bower[s]/Bauer[s]/Baur[s], etc. sites listed under one "roof." If we can get the Continuum up and fully functioning, this project can only help to benefit all of us, especially our newbies. I hope this finds each of you having a fun-filled, FANTASTIC Friday! :) Colleen Merry Ann Simmons wrote: > > Just a thought. While the mailing lists are a great source of info > along with other sites like Ancestry.com and Cyndislist, I also have > gotten great information off of personal web pages of researchers. The > only draw back is trying to find them! I know there are alot, like > me, who use these and bookmark them but we need to get them out to > others. Maybe if we have a "roll call" of sorts for great web sites we > have found with a brief description of what area or information they > cover? > > Example: www.ovis.net/~billcham/ > > This is a great page for Wetzel Co, operated by Bill Cunningham, which I > have found more info and connections off of then I could have ever > gotten from Ancestry. > > I also started using another little trick to run these sites to ground > since the search engines were not doing the job. Most of your smaller > communities use a smaller server. Bill uses "ovis.net". So I type in > www.ovis.net click on the section for "personal" pages hosted by > ovis.net. You then can scroll down to see what home pages are listed > from this site. It tells you a brief description of each one. Just > click and go. Also you can use this if you know of an area by > searching for the service provider. New Martinsville offers > rcvideo.com, they also list home pages but also under links provide a > genealogy link site to surrounding counties with reseachers homepages. > Maybe this isn't something new to others but I stumbled onto this about > 6 months ago on a late night gen searching feast! > > So if anyone has any web sites they want to share other then the very > popular ones, lets see what we can find, Merry Ann > > ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>.

My dear cousins, May I now present the keys to our new home? :) WE'RE HERE!!! WE'VE ARRIVED!!! CYBERSPACE ... LOOK OUT!!!!! :) Key 1: to the entire domain http://bowercommunity.com This key is THE front door to the whole site. Right now it's only the single page. From here you can access both sites and any others we decide to build. Key 2: takes you directly to the Homestead without having to go through the front page http://bowercommunity.com/homestead Key 3: takes you directly to the Cottage without having to go through the front page http://bowercommunity.com/cottage I'll begin closing down our Crosswinds sites today, so don't lose the keys! <g> (Of course, I'll have a redirect page at Crosswinds so you won't get lost.....) I hope you're all having a terrifically, wonderful and magical Monday! I know I am! :) Colleen

) ( ) 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. Bower Community Update If you've been with the family for at least three weeks, you'll probably want to skip the following paragraph… 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/Bro[u]wer 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]/Bau[e]r/Bro[u]wer lines or any of the 81+ variant spellings 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. It's here that I normally tell all you new cousins about our primary home, Bower Family Homestead, and our 'vacation' spot, Bower Cottage. But, not today. We're moving to our own domain. As soon as we're set up, I'll post the new URL for everyone to see. I think you're going to be quite impressed with all the information we have waiting for you. BOWER COMMUNITY UPDATE I have to say first, that I am incredibly astounded by all the support so many of you have shown me. Contributions and words of encouragement and excitement were still coming in as of yesterday when my husband picked up the mail. Many of you are as excited by this new event in our online family as I am! ....OUR OWN HOME! CAN YOU JUST BELIEVE IT??? :) Enough! ... before I go off on another one of my tangents! :) This next part will sound vague and for that, I'm sorry. However, all our Coffees are publicly archived (as are all our messages) and I don't wish to put names and dollar amounts out on the Web. I do want to tell you all that this week a total of $200 in contributions came in. I know of one other contribution that is currently in the mail. It will finish paying the set-up fees with $10 left that I will roll over to next year's annual fees. Any other contributions in the mail that I'm not aware of will also be rolled over to next year. Your incredible support, generosity and quick rallying have just left me in awe. Thank you all for believing in me ... in the family ... in US! Also thanks to an inordinate amount of help from Gloria Motter <[email protected]> and two cousins whose names I don't have yet, the Homestead is not only already moved but has had all its links checked. The Cottage is also moved, but I'm holding off opening our domain until those links are checked as well. We should be having our official housewarming today or tomorrow! (yes, already!) It's no small task to check every link in our two sites, cousins. This job is extremely important because it ensures the pages will flow one after another as our visitors and we expect when a link is clicked on. It also verifies those pages are even onsite with all their graphics. We owe Gloria and her team a HUGE "THANK YOU, SO MUCH!" She and her team saved me a good week's worth of work, enabling us to open our doors much sooner than I anticipated. So, look for a message from me later on today or tomorrow with THE BIG NEWS ... the KEYS! <g> Family ... it's what we're all about ... I so enjoyed this time with you. I hope your upcoming week is filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'

«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» THIS MESSAGE IS FORWARDED TO YOU FROM THE BOWER-L. PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY TO RESPOND TO IT. Instead, please address your reply to "Patrick Kenney" <[email protected]> «:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:»«:*´`³¤³´`*:»§«:*´`³¤³´`*:» -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [BOWER] BOWERS in ENGLAND Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:15:38 -0700 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:16:01 -0700 From: "Patrick Kenney" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] mine were from the Palatine Part of Bavaria that became Germany... they were ran out of their homes during the Napoleonic wars in the 1740's and ended up in Rotterdam, Holland with about 30,000 other refugees, very similar to the Serb-Bosnian situation... William Penn came to the rescue, and offered them all asylum, passage and land on credit, all that was required was they renounce the pope & swear allegiance to the King... My immigrant Bowers progenitor came to the Port of Pennsylvania September 2nd, 1743... Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Mary [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BOWER] BOWERS in ENGLAND Dear cousins, Did any of your BOWERS ancestors come from England? Could they be descended from - John BOWERS born c.1817, Stockport, Cheshire, England son of James BOWERS married 17 June 1838 Cheshire to Mary Ann SALE b.c1818 At some time John and Mary moved from Cheshire to nearby Lancashire where they lived around the Salford/ Pendleton area. One of their children Mary Ann BOWERS married Joseph ROYLE and migrated to Australia and later to New Zealand Perhaps others moved to the USA and other countries. Love to hear from anyone who thinks they might have a connection. Mary Thit, Melbourne, Australia [email protected] ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <[email protected]>. ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== To post messages to the Bower discussion list, send them to [email protected]