PASSED AWAY. i
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Well Known Pioneer of Ottawa
County Laid to Rest. |
David G. Bowers, the subject of this
sEe^cTrT^Told time resident of Genoa,!
and one of the first settlers passed peace¬
fully away at his residence on South
Main Street, Saturday afternoon, at 4
o'clock, June 22, after an illness of sev¬
eral mouths, presumably bought about
by old age. Mr. Bowers came to this
locality in the year 1852 and erected a
little log hut on the same lot lie has re¬
sided on until death, which was then a.
dense wilderness, experiencing those
hardships only known to those old Pio¬
neers. Game of all kinds was plentiful
ill those days. ■ -,
David G. Bowers was born in Whit-
enburg, Germany, Jan. 8th, 1827,
and died June 22nd, 1.001, aged 74
years, 5 mouths and 14 days.
David Bowers came to this country
with his parents in 1830, and settled in
Wheeling, W. Va., where lie lived until
1840, when he came to Ohio and settled
in Sandusky county, .where he lived un¬
til 1852, when he came to Ottawa coun¬
ty and settled on the place where ho
lived at the time of his death.
He was married to Susanna Palmer
Nov. 14th, 1852. To this union was
born 3 children all of which are dead.
The wife died Sept. 16th, 1860.
Tn the year 1861, Oct. 10th, he was
again united in marriage to Caroline
■W erner, who is living to mourn the loss
of the departed husband. To this union
was born three children all of which
died in infancy, v ., '
. He united with the U. B. church 25
years ago last February and remained
a member of said church until six years
ago when he united with the M E.
church, where he remained until death.
The»funeral services were' conducted
at the M. E. church on -Monday after¬
noon, June 24th, 1901,, Rev. C. A. Parks
officiating, 'assisted by Rev. .Hill,; of El-..
more; and the remains laid to rest in
Woodville cemetery. > A large number
of friendsland relatives followed the re¬
mains to their final resting place., " ■'£
