This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3836 Message Board Post: Can anyone tell me who the parents of this William Bowers was? William Bowers, 5-20-1827 to 3-3-1903, buried at Tyger Baptist Church. SOURCE: Greenville Daily News DATE: Wednesday, April 1, 1903 ANOTHER VETERAN GONE OLD SOLDIER WHO WAS MUCH BELOVED AT PIEDMONT FALLS OUT OF THE RANKS Piedmont, March 31 - Mr. William Bowers, who was a charter member of Camp Crittenden, U.C.V., No. 707, died at his home here yesterday morning in the 76th year of his age. If I am not mistaken Mr. Bowers was born in Yancey County, N.C., but has lived in Greenville, S.C., nearly all of his life. He was a brave Confederate and lost an arm in the battle at Petersburg in July 1864. He was a member of the Tigersville Baptist Church and was buried there by the side of his wife and children who died many years ago. He leaves three single daughters, and two married ones. Mr. Bowers has been in very feeble health for some years but his children have been kind and good, and he also drew a pension from the state. His descent to the grave was made as easily as possible. He belonged to Evans' Brigade, Company H, 22nd Regiment, C.S.A. Mr. Bowers has lived in this town a good many years and everybody knew and esteemed "Uncle Billy", as he was familiarly called. The writer has known him ! for many years, and he was of a quiet and gently disposition. One by one the old veterans are dropping out of ranks, and silently crossing over the mystic river, there in the language of the immortal Jackson, "To rest under the shade of the trees". R.Y.H.S.