Hi, Bob: According to Heritage Quest Online's index for the 1880 census, there were 2 Alice Bowman listings in Cumberland County, PA. They were both shown in Upper Allen Twp. The one is shown as a 22-year-old servant in the household of Abm. Rupp and family. The other is: Series: T9 Roll: 1121 Page: 74 1880 - Upper Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., PA - 6/9/1880 Bowman, Jacob - w - m - 65 - head - married - farmer --- Elizabeth - w - f - 58- wife - married - keeping house --- Alice - w - f - 23 - dau. - single - at home --- Clara - w - f - 19 - dau. - single - at home --- Raymond - w - m - 12 - son - single - works on farm PA/PA/PA for all. If this is the right family, here they are again in 1870: Series: M593 Roll: 1333 Page: 536a & b 1870 - Shiremanstown P.O., Upper Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., PA - 8/1/1870 Bowman, Jacob - 55 - m - w - farmer - $9,550/1,640 --- Elizabeth - 47 - f - w - keeping house --- Sarah I. - 17 - f - w - at home --- Laura - 15 - f - w - at home - attended school within the year --- Alice E. - 13 - f - w - at home - attended school within the year --- Carrie E. - 10 - f - w - at home -attended school within the year --- William P. - 7 - m - w - attended school within the year --- Rayman - 3 - m - w Cocklin, George - 14 - m - w - labourer - attended school within the year PA for all. This might be your Daniel Crowl with his parents and siblings: Series: M593 Roll: 1469 Page: 97 1870 - Siddonsburg P.O., Monaghan Twp., York Co., PA - 7/15/1870 Crowl, William - 59 - m - w - farmer - $4,000/300 --- Belmina - 50 - f - w - keeping house --- John - 20 - m - w - farm laborer --- Joseph - 14 - m - w - farm laborer - attended school within year --- Daniel - 7 - m - w - farm laborer - attended school within year PA for all. Series: T9 Roll: 1205 Page: 211 1880 - Monaghan, York Co., PA - 6/14/1880 Crowl, William - w - m - 70 - head - married - retired farmer --- Bellmina - w - f - 60 - wife - married - keeping house - cannot read/cannot write --- John - w - m - 29 - son - single - farmer --- Daniel - w - m - 17 - son - single - works on the farm - attended school within year PA/PA/PA for all. Here's your Daniel & Alice: Series: T623 Roll: 1401 Page: 240 1900 - Upper Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., PA - 6/20/1900 Crowl, Daniel - head - w - m - 9/1861 - 38 - married 14 yrs. - lime burner - rent/free/house --- Alice - wife - w - f - 10/1860 - 39 - married 14 yrs. - 7 children/6 living --- Bella M. - dau. - w - f - 10/1887 - 12 - single --- Ester R. - dau. - w - f - 5/1892 - 8 - single --- Gertrude - dau. - w - f - 5/1894 - single --- Leeroy - son - w - m - 8/1898 - 1 - single PA/PA/PA for all. Series: T624 Roll: 1335 Page: 263 1910 - Upper Allen Twp., Cumberland Co., PA - 5/2/1910 Mohler, Clyde E. - head - m - w - 26 - 1st marriage/1 yr. - butcher/ own shop - rent/house --- Mary C. - wife - f - w - 23 - 1st marriage/1 yr. - 1 child/1 living --- Gean M. - dau. - f - w - 10 mos. - single Crowl, Roy - hired boy - m - w - 11 - single - laborer/odd jobs PA/PA/PA for all. next household on page: Crowl, Daniel - head- m - w - 48 - 1st marriage/24 yrs. - laborer/ stone quarry - own/mortgage/house --- Alice - wife - f -w - 48 - 1st marriage/24 yrs. - 8 children/6 living --- Samuel - son - m - w - 20 - single - laborer/railroad --- Gertrude M. - dau. - f - w - 16 - single - packer/noodle factory Hollinger, Esther R. - dau. - f - w - 18 - 1st marriage/0 yrs. - 1 child/1 living --- John A. - son-in-law - m - w - 23 - 1st marriage/0 yrs. - laborer/tin mill --- Maude E. - granddau. - f - w - 0 mos. - single PA/PA/PA for all. Series: T625 Roll: 1557 Page: 264 1920 - Upper Allen, Cumberland Co., PA - 1/7/1920 Hollinger, John - head - rent - m - w - 35 - married - laborer/tin factory --- Esther R. - wife - f - w - 27 - married --- Minnie - dau. - f - w - 9 - single --- Raymond - son - m - w - 7 - single --- Ruth - dau. - f - w - -4 - single --- Howard - son - m - w - 1 yr., 6 mos. - single Crowl, Daniel - father-in-law - m - w - 54 - widowed - laborer/tin factory PA/PA/PA for all. Hope there's something useful here. Good luck with your search! Debra On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:38 PM, RMeany@aol.com wrote: > My wife's great grandparents, Daniel CROWL (1860-1956) and Alice > (BOWMAN) > CROWL (1860-1918) are buried in Mechanicsburg Cemetery. Their > headstones > only provided the year of death for each, but I was able to find > out their > exact dates of death by a phone call to the cemetery. > > Alice died 17 December 1918, and Daniel died 22 August 1956. > > I know they were living in Upper Allen Township at the time of Alice's > death in 1918 and Daniel was still living their as of the 1930 > Census. Can > anyone tell me what newspaper would likely have carried their > obits? How > would I go about searching it ... inter-library loan? ... or would > a library or > genealogical society do lookups? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping the obits will > shed > some light on just who their parents were. > > Bob Meany > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACUMBER- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message