This article from familysearch.org is unknown writer. Do you know who has written this information? Where can an official change surname confirmation show? Is this the same man as Lazarus Francis Bowers? ---- LAZARUS FRANK BOWERS . 2013-12-21 00:45:27 GMT+0000 (UTC) . 0 Comments Lazarus Frank Bowers was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1842. He lived there until he was eight years old. By that time he had a baby brother, who was two months old when they left Germany with his mother on a ship for America in 1850. Nothing was ever known by the boy of his father. His baby brother died on the way to America and was buried at sea. When he arrived in New York, he got serarated from his mother and never saw or heard of her again. Somewhere along the way, the name "Bauer" was changed to Bowers. The next time he was heard of in family history, he enlisted for service in the Grand Old Army of the Republic in 1861. He joined the Army in Harrison County, Indiana. He loved the Army! It was the first time in his life he had owned a pair of shoes of his own. His clothes were new and warm and he was well fed. He was in Sherman's Army, but did not go marching through Georgia, having been given duty to watch in important ferry. He was on the line of fire with his best friend beside him. They were under cannon fire. He watched his best friend get killed. After the war, he went back to Harrison County, Indiana to tell his best friend's family how their son had died. He stayed and married their daughter, Martha Clark in 1866. They raised nine children. ----