This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BOWMAN PONTIUS MATAGER OBERLIN GAGE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mh.2ADI/618.3.2 Message Board Post: I have Bowman relations from Stark County, OH who migrated to northeastern Indiana. The family group sheet for Simon Bowman and Sarah Pontius is below; I believe that both of their families moved from Stark County and eventually settled in LaGrange County, IN. I also wonder if your Maggart family is related to my Catherine Matager, mother of Simon P. Bowman. I've never been able to track her and wonder if her surname has been corrupted from Metzger or some other surname. Family Group Record ========================================================================================== Husband: Simon P Bowman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: 1851 Ohio Residence: 1874 Section 13, Johnson Township Census: 1880 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Occupation: 1880 Farmer Burial: 1916 Woodruff Cemetery, LaGrange, IN Death: Mar 28 1916 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Marriage: Father: Simon Bowman Mother: Catherine Matager ========================================================================================== Wife: Sarah Jane Pontius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: Jul 13 1849 Indiana Residence: 1874 Section 13 Census: 1880 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Burial: 1917 Woodruff Cemetery, LaGrange, IN Death: Mar 10 1917 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN AKA: Pauntius Father: Jacob Pontius (b 1821) Mother: Catherine Elizabeth Oberlin (b abt 1824) ========================================================================================== Children ========================================================================================== 1 F Mary C Bowman Birth: 1872 Indiana Census: 1880 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Death: Burial: Marriage: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 F Ada Bell "Addie" Bowman Birth: Sep 8 1873 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Census: 1880 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Census: 1900 Springfield Township, LaGrange County, I Burial: 1902 Plato Cemetery, Bloomfield Township, LaG Death: Apr 15 1902 Bloomfield Township, LaGrange County, IN AKA: Addie Spouse: Charles Leonard Gage (m Nov 11 1893) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 F Libbie A Bowman Birth: 1878 Indiana Census: 1880 Johnson Township, LaGrange County, IN Death: Burial: Marriage: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 _ unknown Bowman Birth: Chr: Death: Burial: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 _ unknown Bowman Birth: Chr: Death: Burial: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 F Alma F Bowman Birth: Apr 1890 Indiana Death: Burial: Marriage: