Hello, Frances -- just talked to Ruth on the phone! -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Mcgehee <tiptopmc@advertisnet.com> To: MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com <MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] LOST BOWERS MILL >Are you the P.J. that is president of our Gold reunion? >Frances McGehee > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul E. "PJ" Jackson, Sr." <pj@istnet.net> >To: <MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 8:06 PM >Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] LOST BOWERS MILL > > >> Just for clarification; Bowers Mill and Stotts City were totally different >> towns about a half-dozen miles apart. I say "were"; Stotts City is still >> around and in fact experiencing a little revival -- the Stearnsy Bears are >> manufactured there and a lot of traffic through Stotts City has been >> generated by this industry. >> >> As I recall, Bowers Mill was an older town, west of Stotts City on the >> prairie. My dad recalls going there for "singing schools". Stotts City, >> where he grew up, is a few years over 100 years old. It was originally >named >> Belle Plain; later called Pax; in 1898 (I think) it was renamed for its >> founder, Capt. Green C. Stotts. The old Stotts home is still standing. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LndsayRose@aol.com <LndsayRose@aol.com> >> To: MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com <MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Sunday, June 11, 2000 4:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] LOST BOWERS MILL >> >> >> >I have heard of BOWERS MILL.. My Grandfather was born there I think it >was >> >near to where Stott City is now. YOU MAY THANK JOHN WYLIE GILBERT b. MY >> >GRANDFATHERS BROTHER born 1878 who so patiently explained the details of >> the >> >family history to me. He listed HIS birth place as the future site of >Stott >> >City. He also told me Bowers Mill was No More. >> > His father William Crawford Gilbert built an early version of the >tract >> >homes on the prarie out by Stott City. A series of little board homes, >> that >> >sold well and made a great impression on the populace of the area, My >> >grandfather was born April 20, 1869 Actually the Gilbert children born in >> >Bowers Mill were born from 1867 to 1876. As I said, Uncle John listed his >> >birth place a little differently so I take it might not the Bowers Mill >> >location but my memory tells me that Stott City is a good place to look >> > I would be quite interested in information you find on Bowers Mill. >> > Patricia Lindsay Clemons >> > >> >> >