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     David Bowman was born at Ohio. He was the son of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) David Bowman married Lucinda Hall on 17 April 1853.

     Elizabeth Bowman was born at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Bowman and female1 (?)

     Elizabeth Bowman was born at Ohio. She was the daughter of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) Elizabeth Bowman married David Rohrer on 27 March 1835.¹ Elizabeth Bowman died on 23 April 1843.¹

     Esther Bowman was born at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Bowman and female2 (?)

     Esther Bowman was born at Ohio. She was the daughter of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) Esther Bowman married Henry B. Miller in January 1840.¹

     Florence M. Bowman was the daughter of David Bowman and Lucinda Hall. Florence M. Bowman married Calvin Shakes.¹

     Hiram P. Bowman was the son of David Bowman and Lucinda Hall. Hiram P. Bowman married Mary Dale.¹

     Jacob Bowman was born at Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of John Bowman and female1 (?) Jacob Bowman married Elizabeth (?) Jacob Bowman lived in 1831 at St. Joseph Co, Indiana.¹ He died on 18 September 1868 at Indiana.¹

     John Bowman was born circa 1779 at Germany. He lived at Pennsylvania.¹ He married female1 (?) John Bowman lived at Montgomery Co., Ohio.¹ He married female2 (?) John Bowman died at Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio.¹

     John Bowman was born at Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Bowman and female1 (?)

     John Bowman was born at Ohio. He was the son of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) John Bowman married Margaret Sutphon. John Bowman died in April 1895 at Rothsay, Minnesota.¹

     Mary Bowman was born at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Bowman and female1 (?)

     Mary Bowman was born at Ohio. She was the daughter of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) Mary Bowman married Joseph Hainey in June 1831.¹ Mary Bowman died on 17 November 1894.¹

     Mary Bowman is the daughter of John Bowman and Margaret Sutphon.

     Mary Alice Bowman was the daughter of David Bowman and Lucinda Hall. Mary Alice Bowman married James Matchett.¹

     Schuyler Bowman was the son of John Bowman and Margaret Sutphon.

     Susan Bowman was born at Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of John Bowman and female1 (?)

     Susannah Bowman was born on 19 December 1807 at Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio.^1,2,3,4 She was the daughter of Jacob Bowman and Elizabeth (?) Susannah Bowman married Jacob Chord on 26 June 1825 at Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio.⁴ Susannah Bowman married John Rupel, son of Jacob Rupel and Ann Livengood, on 21 October 1841 at South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana.^5,3,4


The South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana, 3 September 1896, page 5.
(newspapers.com)

"All OF ONE BLOOD"
GATHERING OF THE BOWMAN CLAN

Birthday Anniversary of the Oldest Member of the Family Gathered -- Over 150 People Attend - Dinner is Served in a Grove.

A reunion of the Bowman family was held yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tilman H. Rupel, on Sumption's prairie, in celebration of the 89th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Susanna Rupel, the oldest member of this noted family. There were more than 150 people present and they had a delightful day. The reunion was held in a beautiful grove and 1p.m. a sumptuous dinner was served. This was followed by brief remarks by M. M. Galentine, of Goshen, Col. Charles Ream, Jacob Woolverton, Mrs. Jacob
Woolverton, Ephraim Peffley, Timothy Rupel, G. M. Witwer, Samuel Bowman and J. F. Knight, of Laporte.

Those present were Mrs. Susanna Rupel, Mrs. Matilda C. Bace, Mrs. Samuel Bowman, Hiram F. Bowman, Bourbon, Ind., O.D. Rupel, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Matchett, of Bourbon, Mr. and Mrs. M.M. Galentine, of Goshen, J.M. Whitmer and son, Inez Shakes, of Bourbon, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Beltner, Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Whitmer, Nellie Lammadee, Eva Whitmer, Jessie Rupel, David Whitmer, J.P. Rupel, Lydia A. Knott, John Whitmer, Eliza Violett, Isaac Whitmer, J.E. Robertson, Henry Miller, Phebe J. Whitmer, Mrs. W.H. Miller, Elizabeth Whitmer, Anna Lammadee, Lydia Rupel, Margaret I. Judie, Rilla A. Rupel, Rebecca Rupel, Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Witwer, Martha E. Whitmer, O.B. Miller, H.H. Rupel, Charles Ream, Jacob Rupe, Samuel Bowman, J.I. Damon, E.H. Peffley, C.I. Rupel, A.W. Whitmer, E.E. DuBail, Donald E. DuBail, Wilda R. Damon, Grace A. DuBail, Samuel Bowman, jr., Estella Bowman, Gertrude Bowman, Frank D. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Knight, of LaPorte, Ada H. Bowman, Delia Bowman, R.D.O. Rupel, Ephraim Rupel, Mr. and Mrs. Del C. Leer, T.H. Rupel, Jacob Woolverton, Susan Kimble, Edna Kimble, Alice, Alma and Harry Miller, Horace Dale Bowman, Anna Matchett, Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Hardman, Mary Dale Bowman, D.S. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. O. Miller, Mrs. Nora M. Quay, Irene Robertson, Anna Violett Witwer, Florence and Fannie Ream, Neil V. Robertson, Lizzie V. Robertson, Anna Peffley, Mariel Peffley, Alma E. Rupel, C. F. Rupel, Rose Ream, Daisy Ream, Vera Rodibaugh, Jessie Baer, Roseltha A. Whitmer, Margaret O. Whitmer, Mrs. K. M. Reed, Clara E. Miller, Mrs. C. H. Harper, Henry Miller Harper, Mr. W. H. Miller, Elizabeth Eisenbeiss, Charles Eisenbeiss, Lucinda Bowman, Sarah M. Whitmer, A. L. Whitmer, Margaretta Ream, Mrs. John Whitmer, Luzetta Bowman, John A. Bowman, Howard A. Woolverton, F. E. Damon, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Yoder, Mrs. A. W. Whitmer, E. Ray Whitmer, Susan Rupe, Ella Rupe, Mrs. Melissa Taylor, Alma, Mary, Agnes, Melvin, J. Maynard and J. Edgar Robertson, Ernest R. Rupe, Frederick W., Arthur B., Clarence M., Nellie C., Lawrence W., Russell L. and Harry Lammadee, Francis Whitmer, Estella M. Groom, D. A. Whitmer, Mary E. Whitmer, Adam and John M. Lammadee, Mrs. Sarah Chamberlain, of Bourbon, Mollie E., Charles W. and Rohene Rupel, Bertram Leer, Mrs. Alice M. Woolverton, John J., Earl E. and Hugh L. Woolverton, Mrs. Florence Shank, Mrs. Mary E. Gaskill, M. T. Whitmer, D. O. Miller, W. A. Whitmer.

The principal address of the day was delivered by Mr. Osborn D. Rupel, who gave the following history of the Bowman family in St. Joseph County.

John Bowman, my great grandfather, was born in Germany, embarked for America, settled in Pennsylvania where he married and had three boys, John, David and Jacob, and four girls, Susan, Mary, Elizabeth and Catharine. He married the second time, and to this marriage was born two children, Benjamin and Esther. David, Jacob and Benjamin were brethren ministers, and Benjamin was one of power. He was a very large and powerful man, and had a sonorous voice, that after becoming agitated made the hills echo round him. My great grandfather moved from Pennsylvania to Montgomery County, Ohio, and settled on what was known as Bear creek, four miles west of Dayton, where he died.

All of his children remained in Ohio except Jacob, who, with his wife and nine children, moved to St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1831. His children were Susan, Catherine, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Esther and David. Susanna Bowman, my mother, the oldest, and the only surviving member of the family, was born on a farm four miles west of Dayton., O., Dec. 19, 1807, and got her schooling at the common country schools, and was married on that farm to Jacob Chord June 26, 1825. Six children were born to them, namely, Lydia, born Jan. 11, 1827; Mary Ann, May 16, 1828, died Sept. 28, 1858; Jonathan S., born Aug. 12, 1830, died Jan. 9, 1888; Aaron, born March 20, 1833. died May 3, 1833; Noah, born Feb. 2, 1835, died April 7, 1855, and Peremon, born Oct. 26, 1836, died Oct. 11, 1861. Jacob Chord, the father, died Aug. 3, 1857, at the age of 55.

Susanna married John Rupel Oct. 21, 1841. Three children were born of this marriage, Tillman H., and Tyra B., twin brothers, Aug. 21, 1842, and Osborn D., July 17---. Tyra B. died Sep. 8, 1861. Lydia Chord from the first union married John J. Rupel, Dec. 27, 1849, they having three children, Alice M., born March 30, 1857, Nora M., born Nov. 18, 1853, and Chord S., born Feb. 18, 1859. Alice M. was married to Jacob Woolverton, Oct. 6, 1870. Four children were the result of this union, viz: John J., Howard A., Earl E., and Hugh L. Nora M. married Arthur J. Quay, Jan. 27, 1877, who died Sept. 7, 1885. Chord S. married Mary Wagner Feb. 24, 1880. They have three children, Bessie, Charles and Roenie. Mary Owen Chord married James W. Robertson, who died Aug. 1, 1893, leaving four children, viz; Lydia Mariel, born Feb. 4, 1849, died Aug. 10, 1872, Schuyler Colfax, born Aug. 12, 1851, Anna, born May 3, 1853, and Susanna, born Jan. 12, 1855.

Lydia Mariel married Martin M. Miller, a physician, of South Bend; who died Feb. 25, 1892, leaving one child, Osborn Rupel; now a shrewd business young man of South Bend. Schuyler Colfax married Miss Callie Sweet, Feb. 22, 1877, having two children, Anna Fay, born Nov. 20, 1880, and Leslie M., born Nov. 27, 1882. He married again to Miss Lizzie Vinson Feb. 26, 1885, having two children, Irena, born Feb. 16 1888, and Neil, born Sept 26, 1893. Annie married Ephraim Peffley Nov. 2, 1871, who had three children, Mariel, Clyde and Edith, the latter deceased. Susanna married Edward Kimble; Nov. 6, 1877, having six children, four of, whom are living. The living are Ralph, Mary, Fannie and Edna. The dead are Annie and Emma.

Tillman H. Rupel was married to Rebecca A. Heaton Dec 21, 1865, and five children were born to them, two of whom are living, Herbert H., born June 1, 1867, and Howard Glenn, born Jan. 31, 1878. Osborn D. Rupel was married to Josephine A. Coquillard Dec 14, 1869. One child was the happy result of this union, his name being Alexis C., born Jan. 25, 1877, now a temporary resident of North Dakota.

Catharine Bowman married Abram Whitmer a Brethren minister who died. Eleven children were born to them, Jacob, Susan, David, John, Ann, Isaac, Daniel, Henry, Mary and Lydia, nine of whom are still living and residing in this county. Catherine Bowman was born May 3, 1809. Married Oct. 18, 1827, died March 4, 1893.

Mary Bowman married Joseph Hainey in June, 1831, and was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive, Eliza, Violette, Matilda Baer, Elizabeth Eisenbeis, Margaretta Ream, Rose E. Rohrer and John H. Haney of Wagon Wheel Gap, Col., Mary Hainey died Nov. 17,1894.

Ann Bowman married Samuel Rodebaugh in October, 1839, having three children, two living, Alonzo and Mary J. Galentine; Ann Rodebaugh died Sept. 12, 1861;

Elizabeth Bowman married David Rohrer, March 27, 1835, and was the mother of four children, two of whom are living, John, of South Bend, and Sarah Chamberlain, of Bourbon, Ind. Lydia having died left one daughter, Mrs. Flora Beitner, her husband being engaged in the boot and shoe business of our city. Elizabeth Rohrer died April 23, 1843.

John Bowman married Margaret Sutphon, having four children, three of whom are living, Alma, Mary and Schuyler; John Bowman died at Rothsay, Minn; in April, 1895;

David Bowman married Lucinda Hall, April 17, 1853; three children were born, Florence M., who married Calvin Shakes, a business man of Bourbon, Ind., having one child, Inez, Mary Alice, who married James Matchett, a banker and successful business man of Bourbon, Ind., and Hiram P., who married Miss Mary Dale, a lady of literary attainments.

Esther Bowman married Henry B. Miller, in January, 1840, who then was a struggling editor of an 8x10 newspaper at Niles, Mich., called the Niles Democrat. He afterward became a resident of Buffalo, N.Y., became, a member of the New York state general assembly, afterward a member of the Illinois general assembly and treasurer of Cook county, III., and it may well be said that he was a very sanguine and charitable man and one of the most shining lights of the relation. Mr. Miller was born April 16, 1819, died Nov. 19, 1889. Three children were the fruits of this marriage; William H., who married Miss Mabel F. Wilson; Kate, who married Mr. Fred L. Reed, who had one child, Mrs. Efiie Harper, and Clara.

David Bowman was married to Elizabeth Stull Oct 9, 1849, having one child, now Mrs. Grace A. Dubail, of South Bend, whose husband is a successful young business man. His second wife was Luzetta Fox, whom he married Sept. 9, 1876, having one child, Master John, who is to study jurisprudence.

Susan Bowman has had only 13 grandchildren, nine of whom are living, and 21 great-grandchildren, and but five of these dead.

It can be readily ascertained that depopulation is slowly but surely vending its course. Jacob Bowman was born in 1802 and died Sept. 18, 1868. He had two sisters, Mrs. Leer, who settled on the Mishawaka road in 1829, adjoining the now city of South Bend, who had a family of respectability, and a sister who never came to this country. Jacob Bowman's family consisted of Catherine, who married Adam Baer, an honored man, Samuel, now a candidate for county commissioner, and a man who has held many positions, of trust and emolument, and John L., who died at his home in South Bend during the last winter, a man or dignified and respectable demeanor.

While the Bowman family name not made any vivid marks of distinction as representatives in the national halls of congress, the supreme bench; the literary world or journalism, they have been at parity with the highest encomiums of honor and integrity. Those of you who have Bowman blood coursing through your veins, need not be ashamed of a single drop of it.

This reunion shall long be remembered as a bright beam in the chain of social and moral revolution: and the center of the orbit around which a few of the satellites in the perfection and prosecution of this assembly is represented by the untiring and unflagging industry of Mrs. Woolverton. We trust my good old mother may yet live many years, fully maintaining her vigor, for when she has bid adieu to all the cares of life it can be said that her career shines forth to the world with the brightness and effulgence of the star of Bethlehem, that located the birthplace of Christ.

A permanent organization was effected with the following officers: T. H. Rupel, president; George B. Beitner, vice-president; Mrs. Nora M. Quay, secretary; E.F. DuBail, treasurer. The following committee of arrangements for the celebration of 1887. was appointed: G. M. Witwer, Jacob Woolverton, Samuel Bowman, Isaac Whitmer, Ephraim Peffley, Alice M. Woolverton, Kate M. Reed, Mrs. John Whitmer, Mrs. S. C. Robertson, Martha Whitmer, Mrs. G.M. Witwer, Mrs. G. B. Beitner.

The South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana, 3 September 1896, page 5.
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Susannah Bowman died circa 1898 at South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana.^6,2 She died on 31 May 1899 at 753 South Michigan St., South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana, at age 91.^3,1



Susan Rupel

Susan Rupel, a pioneer resident of St. Joseph county, and the oldest of a family of nine children, all of whom preceeded her in death, died last evening at 6 o'clock at the residence of her late son, Tillman Rupel, 753 South Michigan street, at the advanced age of 91 years and five monnths. She had been ill since last Friday. About 6 o'clock on that day she suffered a stroke of paralysis which resulted in her death. Previous to that time she had enjoyed the very best of health and had up to within a few moments of the time she was stricken assisted with the work about the house.
The deceased was a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bowman and was born on a farm west of Dayton, O., Dec., 19, 1807. On June 26, 1825, she was married to Jacob Chord and to this union six children were born, only one of whom, Mrs. Lydia Rupel, of this county, survives. Mrs. Rupel is 72 years of age. In 1832 the deceased with her parents, husband, brothers and sister, moved from Ohio to St. Joseph county, and settled on a farm south of Mishawaka. Mr. Chord died on Aug. 3, 1857, at the age of 55 years. On Oct. 2, 1841, the deceased married John Rupel. This union was productive of three children, one of whom, Osborne Rupel, is living at the age of 54 years. He is the youngest of the three. During her life Mrs. Rupel has resided south of Mishawaka, on Bowman's creek, in South Bend and on Sumption's Prairie - from which place she came to this city to make her home last March. She was distinctively a pioneer of St. Joseph county, coming here when South Bend was a very unpretentious little village and the surrounding country was sparsely populated. Mrs. Rupel is survived by numerous relatives, among them nine grand children, 14 great grand children and one child of the fifth generation. She was a remarkable woman in a great many respects. The indominable will power which characterized the earlier inhabitants of the country followed her until the very hour of her death and the tenacity with which she clung to life when her death had been expected hourly for a week shows that nine decades of life had not borne heavily upon her.
Funeral services will be held at Sumption Prairie Advent church, Friday at 3 pm. Rider Smith officiating. Interment will take place at Sumption Prairie cemetery. The friends and relatives will meet at the resident at 1 p.m.

Obituary appeared in The South Bend Weekly Tribune, Sat., 1 Jun, 1899, page 5.³


She was buried at Sumption Prairie Cemetery, South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana.¹

     Carl Bernice Boyd was born on 12 April 1912 at Abbott, Hill Co., Texas.² He married Felicia Frances Booher, daughter of Frank Sylvester Booher and Hattie D. Harn, on 13 June 1936.¹ Carl Bernice Boyd died on 5 July 1949 at Rockdale, Milam Co., Texas, at age 37; certificate #34785.^3,2 He was buried at Waco Memorial Park, Waco, McLennan Co., Texas.²

     Carolyn Bernice Boyd is the daughter of Carl Bernice Boyd and Felicia Frances Booher. Carolyn Bernice Boyd married William Presley.

     Frank Elbert Boyd is the son of Carl Bernice Boyd and Felicia Frances Booher.¹ Frank Elbert Boyd married Maureen (?)

     Hustead Boyd was born on 16 February 1905 at Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.¹ He married Rachel Adnabelle Harn, daughter of Riley Adam Harn and Lillian May Crawford, on 2 January 1937 at Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. Hustead Boyd died on 29 November 1994 at age 89.¹ He was buried at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Weirton, Hancock Co., West Virginia.¹

     Nora Boyd was born in 1878.¹ She married Alfred Blaine Harn, son of John Thomas Harn and Harriet Melissa Sumner, on 27 April 1899 at Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.² Nora Boyd died in 1955.¹ She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., California.¹

     Samantha E. Boyd was born circa May 1849.² She was born on 31 May 1850 at Holmes Co., Ohio.¹ She married Cornelius C. Andress circa 1867.¹ Samantha E. Boyd married Jonas Ruple, son of John Rupel and Elizabeth Bird (Byrd), circa 1896.

     Stanley Christian Boyd is the son of Carl Bernice Boyd and Felicia Frances Booher. Stanley Christian Boyd married Gail (?)

     Terza Suzett Boyd is the daughter of Carl Bernice Boyd and Felicia Frances Booher.¹ Terza Suzett Boyd married Greer Donaldson.

     SOURCE: Jim Coleman FHL film 1673524, item 14. John Boyer married Delilah J. Ruple, daughter of James Ruple and Sarah Wagner Wood, on 21 February 1858 at Elkhart Co., Indiana.¹

     Audrey Alwilda Boyers was born on 14 March 1906 at Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama.¹ She married Jay Franklin Walz, son of George Henry Walz and Nellie Pearl Rupel, on 6 March 1934 at South Bend, St. Joseph Co., Indiana.¹ Audrey Alwilda Boyers died on 14 February 1983 at Greenfield, Franklin Co., Massachusetts, at age 76.¹

     Delores Bozarth married John Wesley Burkey, son of Edward Christian Burkey and Lucy Mae Fellows, in 1973.

     Susan Bracker married Ronald Lee Fletcher, son of Arthur Lewis Fletcher and Vileta Ann Booth, on 30 March 1974.