John S. Bowman (1822 - 1903)

Born 12 May 1822 in Waterloo Township, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Died 16 Jun 1903 at age 81 in Waterloo County, Ontario

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Biography

John was the son of Jonathan Bauman and Maria Schneider. He anglicized his name to Bowman.

Following marriage to Elizabeth Stauffer, continued to live in the family farmhouse. A two-story white brick house was built in 1860 in front of the original log house which then became a summer kitchen. A Pennsylvania-style bank barn was also on the property. In 1861 census shows a servant of the name of 21-year-old Cudilla Algier, a Lutheran from Prussia.

He legally acquired the farm on 3 December 1869 following the death of his father and continued farming it until he retired in 1878. He sold the farm to a David Betzner (located north of Bloomingdale on either side of Highway 17) and moved to his son Hiram's farm (owned by a John Snyder in 1975, location unknown).

Buried in the Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery.

Sources

• Eby Book, volume 1, page 100
• Folklore, pages 147 to 149
• Generations
• for Eby Book, Folklore, and Generations, see Space:Common_Sources,_Descendants_of_Hannes_Schneider_born_1534

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38442659/john-s_-bowman : accessed 24 January 2021), Maintained by Darren Arndt (contributor 46971852) .

Acknowledgement

• This person was created through the import of NESTRA~1.GED on 13 December 2010.