Unknown Bower

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth
Marriage
Death
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

Generation 4               Generation 5      Generation 6
 
                                         +-- Unknown Bower
                                         |   (????-????)  
                       +-- David Bower --+
                       |   (1825-1866)   |
Olive Samantha Bower --+                 +-- [unknown]
(1862-1895)            |                     (????-????)
                       +-- Caroline Snyder
                           (1831-1905)

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Children

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Dr. John Bower	M	~1823	PA	Mary Giltner
Rachel Bower	F			John August
David Bower	M	1826	PA	Caroline Snyder
Barbara Bower	F	~1830	PA	Reuben Disler
Reuben N. Bower	M	~1835	PA	Lydia Disler
Jesse Bower	M
Charles Bower	M
Elizabeth Bower	F
Samuel Bower	M

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1860 U.S. Census Venango Co. PA, Richland Twp., pg. 28. Date of census 22 June 1860. Rheuben Disler age 28, farmer, $4000 real estate, $150 personal estate; Barbara age 30; Children: Catherin 5, Melinda R, Maria 3, John 1. All born in PA.
2	1860 U.S. Census Clarion Co. PA,Salem Twp., pg 13. Date of census 29 June 1860. Lines 30-32 list Reuben N. Bower age 25, blacksmith, no real estate value, personal estate value $130; Lydia age 21, Elura, female 9 mos. All born in PA.
1	Cemetery Association Record listing the siblings of David Bower, 1826-1856.	transcription
2	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams.	N/A

Conjecture

Since so many families is the Clarion-Venango Counties border area migrated from Lehigh County, it is worth noting that Michael Brey, (whose daughter married Olive Bower's son), owned land in Upper Milford township, (in then Northampton, later Lehigh County) in 1806, near land of a Henry Bauer. Also a land transaction by one Joseph Klein in October of 1865 mentions land of the "late John Bower', in Salisbury township.

Research

1850 U.S. Census, Reserve T., Allegheny Co. PA, Pg 4 line 42 & pg 5 line 1-4. Sarah Bower, 41, no occupation listed, $1200 real estate. Children: Samuel E. , 11; Albert ?, 9; Charles, 8; Mary E., 6.
If the father were dead and the older children migrated to Clarion Co. area from elsewhere, this family might be the mother and younger children. It would require that Mary E. be Elizabeth, and that Albert be Jesse, to match the names listed by the Salem Lutheran Cemetery Assoc. , for which the ages/birth dates are unknown.
No matching Jesse Bower, Charles Bower, Samuel Bower, Elizabeth Bower, Rachel Bower, or John August has been found in 1850 or 1860 for Clarion or Venango Counties.