Jesse BOWERS Jr. Family

Michigan Family Group Sheet

Counties: Ingham & Livingston

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HUSBANDWIFE
Husband: Jesse BOWERS Jr.
Birth Date: 1812
Birth Place: Dixs, Chemung NY
Death date: 30 May 1862
Death Place: Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi (near)
Burial Place: Corinth National Cemetery
Father: Jesse BOWERS, Sr.
Mother: Unknown
Wife: Martha Maria ROBINSON
Birth Date:  30 Oct 1813
Birth Place: Dutchess(?) NY 
Death date: 6 Jun 1895
Death Place: MI
Burial Place: MI
Father: B. B. ROBINSON?
Mother: Unknown
Marriage date: 27 December 1828Marriage place: Dix, Chemung NY

 

CHILDREN


Child No. 1: Elizabeth Jane BOWERS
Sex: F
Birth Date: abt 1824
Birth Place: NY
Death date: aft 1897
Death Place: Unknown
Burial Place: Unknown
Marriage date: Unknown
Marriage place: NY?
Spouse's name: Unknown BENNETT

 

Child No. 2: Joseph D. BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 20 March 1832
Birth Place: Yates or Dixs, Chemung NY
Death date: 10 December 1920 
Death Place: MI
Burial Place: MI
Marriage date: 24 August 1856
Marriage place: Leroy, Ingham MI
Spouse's name: Anna Maria GOULD
Marriage date: 25 June 1908
Marriage place: Lansing, Ingham MI
Spouse's name: Florence E. HATFIELD
Child No. 3: Jacob BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 24 March 1838
Birth Place: Chemung NY
Death date: 27 Jan1906
Death Place: Webberville, Ingham MI
Burial Place: Webberville, Ingham MI
Marriage date: 22 Feb 1865
Marriage place: White Oak, Ingham MI
Spouse's name: Lodema L. HAVENS
Child No. 4: Esther Ann BOWER
Sex: F
Birth Date: 30 May 1839
Birth Place: NY
Death date: aft 1906
Death Place: Unknown
Burial Place: Unknown
Marriage date: 1873
Marriage place: Unknown
Spouse's name: George PRICE
Child No. 5: Henry BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 1841
Birth Place: NY
Death date: Unknown
Death Place: Unknown
Burial Place: Unknown
Marriage date: Unknown
Marriage place: Unknown
Spouse's name:  Unknown
Child No. 6: Barnett M. BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 17 February 1843
Birth Place: Dutchess NY
Death date: 22 July 1908
Death Place: Webberville, Ingham MI
Burial Place: Alchin Cemetery; Leroy twp, Ingham MI
Marriage date: 22 March 1871
Marriage place: Leroy, Ingham MI
Spouse's name:  Helen Catherine ODELL
Child No. 7: Bradley R. BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 1 Apr 1845/7
Birth Place: NY
Death date: bef 1930
Death Place: Unknown
Burial Place: Unknown
Marriage date: 1899
Marriage place: Unknown
Spouse's name:  Deborah M. UNKNOWN, Amanda
Child No. 8: Nancy Maria BOWERS
Sex: F
Birth Date: 1849/50
Birth Place: MI
Death date: aft 1910
Death Place: MI
Burial Place: MI
Marriage date: 3 August1868 
Marriage place: Leroy, Ingham MI
Spouse's name:  Lucien B. SMITH
Child No. 9: Natalia G.BOWERS
Sex: F
Birth Date: 28 March 1851/52
Birth Place: MI
Death date: Unknown
Death Place: MI
Burial Place: MI
Marriage date: Unknown
Marriage place: MI
Spouse's name:  John L. PARKER
Child No. 10: Mary Jane BOWERS
Sex: F
Birth Date: 18 May 1853
Birth Place: MI
Death date: 24 March 1918
Death Place: MI
Burial Place: MI
Marriage date: NA
Marriage place: NA
Spouse's name:  NA
Child No. 11: Benjamin Monroe BOWERS
Sex: M
Birth Date: 3 October 1855
Birth Place: MI
Death date: aft 1930
Death Place: Unknown
Burial Place: Unknown
Marriage date: 12 March 1877
Marriage place: Fowlerville, Livingston MI
Spouse's name:  Carrie J.DUTTON/SAGE

Sources
Documentation: 

Mary Jane Bowers was listed as "idiot" in some census.
Civil War Pension medical documentation and family lore supportsthe claim.  She never married.  

Jesse Bowers and two of his sons: Joseph D. and Jacob all servedin Civil War. 
Jesse died in Civil War, Jacob was severly wounded. 

Benjamin's wife was named Carrie J. Dutton. 
Her widowed mother Caroline remarried (William SAGE) and Carrieassumed her step-father's surname.