Paris A. Bower

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Paris A. Bower is not in my direct ancestry. He is 1 step removed in the following ways: Brother of Olive Samantha Bower Son of David Bower and Caroline Snyder

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	Sept 1853
Marriage			To Maria Rugh daughter of Sarah unknown & unknown Rugh
Death
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 4         Generation 5        Generation 6
 
                                      +-- Unknown Bower
                                      |   (????-????)
                  +-- David Bower ----+
                  |   (1825-1866)     |
 Paris A. Bower --+                   +-- Unknown
 (1853-????)      |                       (????-????)
                  +-- Caroline Snyder
                      (1831-1905)

Sources:

Children

(7 children with Maria Rugh)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
unknown Bower (expect either Dee or Howard)	?	expect before 1881		To
Minta/Minnie Bower	F	Sept 1882		Jake Minnich	Had no children
Effie Bower	F	Mar 1885		Arthur Kaltenborn	Children: Ethel Kaltenborn(m. Clarence Muntz); Arthur Kaltenborn,Jr.; Jack Kaltenborn.
John Bower	M	Dec 1887		To
Loy Bower	M	Nov 1891		Lettie unknown
Arthur Bower	M	Mar 1900		Mattie unknown	Children: ZoeBower, Zora Bower
Dee Bower	F?			To
Howard Bower	M			To

We expect that either Dee or Howard is the same first child indicated in the 1900 census; the other would then be the 7th and last child.

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
expect Salem Twp Clarion Co PA	born 1853
Oakdale, Allegheny Co. PA	by 1900

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1900 United States Federal Census, Oakdale borough, Allegheny Co. PA, enumeration district 464, pg. 7 of Ancestry.com Date of census 5 June 1900. Lines 2-9: Bower, Paris A., white male born Sept 1853, age 46, married 20 yrs., occupation oil well pumper. Rents house. Maria, wife, born June 1856, age 43, married 20 yrs., has had 6 children, all 6 are living. Children: daughter Minta born Sept 1882, age 17; daughter Effie born Mar 1885, age 15; son John born Dec 1887, age 12; son Soy (sic;expect Loy) born Nov 1891, age 8; son Arthur born Mar 1890 (sic; expect 1900), age 2 months. Sarah Rugh, mother-in-law, born May 1887, age 67, widow, bore 9 children; 4 living. All and all parents born in PA.
3	Cemetery Association Record, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, transcribed Sept. 1991 by Elizabeth Wilson Williams. Records included: Siblings of David Bower, 1826-1856. Caroline Snyder, 1881-1909, wife of David Bower Their children: Paris Bower (m. Maria Rugh); Theresa "Tacy" Bower (m. Peter Sheakley); Olive Bower (m. James Beals); Irvin Bower; Laura Bower (m. [unknown] Tyler).	transcription
4	Research Manuscript of Ella May Beals (Wilson) researched 1975-1985, including personal knowledge and interviews of her siblings Robert Beals and Bertha Beals (Chambers), and of her aunt Mary P. Kline (Fillgrove).
5	Research of Nancy Elizabeth Beals (Walls), 1975-ongoing, in the Venango/Clarion Counties border area, including cemetery inventories, obituary collections, church records and library research, and interviews of community members.

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