-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWER] Roll Call: BOWERS:PA,MD Resent-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:12:57 -0500 From: "Charles W. Smith" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hello to All! My research, my husband's family, has two separate BOWERS lines, so I imagine I have double the chances of success!? BOWERS of PENNSYLVANIA [Earliest records of Jacob and George are not verified, but are based on family "knowledge."] 1.Jacob BOWERS [Bedford Co., PA] from 1790 US Census had one son, said to be George BOWERS 2.George K. BOWERS b: 1777 m: ? to ? d: ? 3. Lydia BOWERS b: 12 Mar 1803 [prob PA] d: 08 Jan 1885 [Taylor Twp., Fulton, PA] m: 1822 [ Letterkenny Twp?.,Franklin,PA] David LAIDIG b: 28 May 1801[prob. Franklin, PA] d: 25 Jul 1867 [Taylor Twp., Fulton,PA] [Lydia states in the 1870 US Census that her mother was foreign-born.] That's all the information I have on this family. I've noticed quite a bit of information on Jacob Bowers on this list, so I'm hoping someone may have a connection to "our" Bowers. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The second line is in the MD [Maryland] area as immigrants from Hanover, Germany in about 1831. 1. Aquilla BOWERS b: 30 Jan 1792 [Hanover, Germany] d: 05 Aug 1884 [Westminster, Carroll Co., MD] m: Catherine _________ b: 10 Jan 1794 [Hanover, Germany] d: 26 Jan 1869 [Westminster, Carroll Co., MD] i. Emily Patrinn BOWERS b: 1820 [Hanover, Germany] m: 23 Oct 1851 to James L. LUCAS ii. Catherine Baffina BOWERS b: 1823 [Hanover, Germany] d: abt 1856 [Winfield, Carroll Co., MD] m: abt 1845 to William BLOOM iii. Conrad BOWERS b: 15 Aug 1824 [Hanover, Germany] d: 22 Feb 1896 [Carroll Co., MD] m: 24 Nov 1851 Sarah Rebecca WAGER b: 12 Jan 1829 [MD] d: 22 May 1910 [Westminster, Carroll, MD] iv. Elizabeth BOWERS b: 05 Jan 1828 [Hanover, Germany] d: 17 Jul 1901 [Smallwood, Carroll Co., MD] m: 16 Nov 1847 to John Wesley BARBER v. Rebecca BOWERS b: 1833 m: 10 Mar 1855 to George STOUFF vi. Mary C. BOWERS b: 1836 m: 22 Mar 1862 to William Henry HAINES vii. Eve BOWERS b: 1839 d: 1888 [Smallwood, Carroll Co., MD] m: 03 May 1859 to John Gideon M. COOK I would like to find out where in Hanover these BOWERS originated. I realize both of these families' lines are sketchy, but living at a distance from Maryland and Pennsylvania has made research difficult. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! Carolyn