Minervia Caroline (Price) Bowman (1833 - 1907)

Born 16 Aug 1833 in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Hosea Bowman — married about 1848 in Alexander, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 7 Mar 1907 at age 73 in Wittenberg Township, Alexander, North Carolina, United States

Biography

Minervia Caroline Price was born on Aug 16, 1833 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. (Note: This is prior to the establishment of Alexander County in 1847.^[1] She is the daughter of Elijah Price and Sarah Bowman Price.^[2] Minervia Caroline Price married her second cousin, Hosea Bowman, prior to 1860 in Alexander County, North Carolina, USA.^[3] She was confirmed in the Lutheran Church at Friendship Lutheran Church on Oct 16, 1852 in Alexander, North Carolina, USA by Rev P.C. Henkel, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev. Polycarp Cyprian Henkel served as the rector at Friendship Lutheran church from 1847-61.^[4] Her future husband, Hosea Bowman was also in the same confirmation class, based on his confirmation certificate date.

She resided with Hosea Bowman in Alexander County in 1860.^[5] After her husband died in 1862, she resided with her only son Jonas Lafayette Bowman (1861-1935) until her death in 1907. She died on Mar 7, 1907 in Wittenberg Township, Alexander, North Carolina, USA..^[6] Her burial location is not known at this time.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ #Confirmation
2. ↑ #C1850, #HistAlexCo
3. ↑ #C1860, #MarriageJLB, #MarriageJLB2
4. ↑ #Henkel
5. ↑ #C1860
6. ↑ #Confirmation
7. ↑ #C1870, #C1880, #C1900

• Source: Certificate of Confirmation for Minervia C. Price Note: copied from Virginia Bowman in 1981 Official Lutheran Church confirmation form signed by P.C. Henkel Confirmation on 16 October 1851 Born 16 August 1833 Died 7 March 1907 Master Listing Source: Y FSFTID 9XK3-97F
• Source: Hosea Bowman in entry for J L Bowman and Nora Moretz, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979" Note: "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VXTR-SQ2 : accessed 29 May 2016), Hosea Bowman in entry for J L Bowman and Nora Moretz, 07 Apr 1909; citing Alexander, North Carolina, United States, county courthouses, North Carolina; FHL microfilm 1,758,791. Master Listing Source: Y FSFTID 9XXC-381
• Source: Hosea Bowman in entry for J L Bowman and Nora Moretz, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979" Note: "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VXTP-4QT : accessed 29 May 2016), Hosea Bowman in entry for J L Bowman and Nora Moretz, 07 Apr 1909; citing Alexander, North Carolina, United States, county courthouses, North Carolina; FHL microfilm 1,730,293. Master Listing Source: Y FSFTID 9X6B-FQN
• Source: Historical Sketches of Alexander County, N.C. Note: Book was published in 1905 and authored by Rev. A.L. Crouse, Subtitles is Friendship Lutheran, Hopewell Reformed , and Charity Baptist Churches and of the Bowman & Fry Families On page 102-103, the following is listed: Jonas Bowman married Elizabeth Little, a daughter of Jacob Little, of Catawba county. She was a sister of Sarah Little, his brother Joseph's wife. Accordingly their children are double first cousins. They settled on Mountain creek, about a mile and a half from Catawba river. Some time between 1845 and 1850, they moved near the river, on to a part of the old Barrett place, which they bought of Joseph Rowe. It now belongs to their son J. Socrates, Esq., but he lives near the public road and the old house near the river has been abandoned. They died there. Their children were: Hosea, Susan, Polly, Hinchea, Lovina, Alonzo, Daniel L., Jonas Socrates, Martha Elizabeth and Cephas. Hosea married Caroline Price. They had one child, Jonas Lafayette, who married Martha Jane, a daughter of Simon Cline. She died at the state hospital at Morganton, N.C., where she had been only two weeks for improvement of mind and body, March 18, 1905. Their children are: Loyd Elmore, Troy Everett, Hattie Susan, Percy Hosea, Laura Alena, Oliver Leslie, and Lottie Blanche. Hosea Bowman died in 1862 and his widow lives with her son.
• Source: Rootsweb entry for Minerva Caroline Price, ID: I2373 by Carolyn Whitaker, with sources, accessed on Aug 3, 2016.
• Source: NC Genealogical Web, P.C. Henkel, accessed Aug 3, 2016.

• Source: "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4B3-V4P : 9 November 2014), Serva Price in household of Elijah Price, Alexander county, Alexander, North Carolina, United States; citing family 369, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• Source: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDDL-VVJ : 30 December 2015), M C Bowman in entry for H Bowman, 1860, household No. 970, Taylorsville PO; H Bowman, 26; M C female, 21.
• Source "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWZ5-D4S : 17 October 2014), Manerva Bowman, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 20, family 155, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,620., Jan 28, 1870, Wittenburgs Township, Alexander Co., NC, household 155; Manerva Bowman, age 33; Jonas L., age 9.
• Source: 1880 CensusCaroline Bowman, "United States Census, 1880" Note: "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC64-8PQ : accessed 2 June 2016), Caroline Bowman, Wittenbergs, Alexander, North Carolina, United States; Household 197, Caroline Bowman 45; Lafayette 19 son; next door to Zachariah Moretz.citing enumeration district ED 7, sheet 229D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0951; FHL microfilm 1,254,951.
• Source: Minervi C Bowman in household of Jonas L Bowman, "United States Census, 1900". "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSTV-N7Y : accessed 2 June 2016), Minervi C Bowman in household of Jonas L Bowman, Wittenberg Township, Alexander, North Carolina, United States; citing sheet 9A, family 163, Jonas L. Bowman Jan 1861, 39 marr 16 yrs; Martha J Oct 1867, 32, 7 born, 7 living, Lloyd E, May 1885 15; Troy E., May 1887, 13; Hattie S., Mar 1899, 11; Perry H., Oct 1891, 8; Laura A., Aug 1893, 6; Oliver L., Sept 1897, 2; Lottie B., May 1899, 1; Minerva C, mother, Aug 1833, 66. NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,181.