Birth PlaceUnion Township, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Death Date13 Oct 1898 Age: 62
Death PlacePike Township, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Burial PlaceBloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
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Jonathan Bowman was born in Union county. Pa., September 14, 1836, and accompanied his father to Clearfield county, when the latter settled in Knox township.
After he married he continued to operate his father’s farm near the Turkey Hill schoolhouse, which he had helped to clear, and also engaged in lumbering. Later he purchased what was known as the Powell farm, in Lawrence township, and moved from there into Pike township, buying the A. A. Long farm, on which he continued to reside until his death, October 13, 1898, when he was aged sixty-three years.
He was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mt. Zion. In politics he was a Democrat but never desired public office, serving however as overseer of the poor when his fellow citizens elected him.
He married Eliza Rowles, who still survives, and lives on the old homestead. She is a daughter of Tidus H. Rowles and a member of a large and substantial family of this section. To Jonathan and Eliza Bowman fifteen children were born.
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Jonathan and other family member headstones acan be found at this source.
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