Obit for my ggg-Grandmother:
Mariah P. Bevins Bowles was born august 10, 1826 at Breckinridge, KY and departed this life at Mulvane, KS, June 28, 1909, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 18 days. She was married to Jesse P. Bowles at Old Chapel, IL on August 6, 1846 who survives her; although he is very feeble and is halting on the border land. Their married life has covered a period of 60 years, 10 months, and 22 days.
To this union were born eight children. Six girls and two boys all of whom are still living except Mary, who died in Ill. at 17 years of age. Those living are: America J. Canady, Martha V. Fields, Cassander M. Wright, Anna M. Thompson, Molly J. Eck and Wm. D. Bowles-all members of the Church of Christ.
Sister Bowles became obedient to the Gospel when she was 14 years of age, and continued in the faith until her death. She was afflicted with blindness for 5 years yet never murmuring or complaining. She, with her husband came to Kansas in the spring of 1873, settling on a farm on the Arkansas River, three miles west of Mulvane, moved to Mulvane in the spring of 1884 and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Theo Eck, where she resided at the time of her death.
She leaves her aged husband, five daughters, two sons, twenty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives, neighbors and friends to mourn their loss. The writer was called to conduct the funeral services at Mulvane. Speaking on the assurance of the resurrection, after which we laid her to rest in the Prairie Home Cemetery near which place she first met to worship in Kansas.
The following verse is inserted by the request of her aged and loving husband: "Love is a golden chain that binds The souls of them above. And he is an heir of heaven, who finds; His bosom glows with love."
Marriage to Jesse Payne BOWLES
6 Aug 1846
Age: 19
Old Chapel, IL
Mariah P. Bevins Bowles was born august 10, 1826 at Breckinridge, KY and departed this life at Mulvane, KS, June 28, 1909, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 18 days. She was married to Jesse P. Bowles at Old Chapel, IL on August 6, 1846 who survives her; although he is very feeble and is halting on the border land. Their married life has covered a period of 60 years, 10 months, and 22 days.
To this union were born eight children. Six girls and two boys all of whom are still living except Mary, who died in Ill. at 17 years of age. Those living are: America J. Canady, Martha V. Fields, Cassander M. Wright, Anna M. Thompson, Molly J. Eck and Wm. D. Bowles-all members of the Church of Christ.
Sister Bowles became obedient to the Gospel when she was 14 years of age, and continued in the faith until her death. She was afflicted with blindness for 5 years yet never murmuring or complaining. She, with her husband came to Kansas in the spring of 1873, settling on a farm on the Arkansas River, three miles west of Mulvane, moved to Mulvane in the spring of 1884 and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Theo Eck, where she resided at the time of her death.
She leaves her aged husband, five daughters, two sons, twenty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives, neighbors and friends to mourn their loss. The writer was called to conduct the funeral services at Mulvane. Speaking on the assurance of the resurrection, after which we laid her to rest in the Prairie Home Cemetery near which place she first met to worship in Kansas.
The following verse is inserted by the request of her aged and loving husband: "Love is a golden chain that binds The souls of them above. And he is an heir of heaven, who finds; His bosom glows with love."
Marriage to Jesse Payne BOWLES
6 Aug 1846
Age: 19
Old Chapel, IL
Obit for my ggg-Grandmother:
Mariah P. Bevins Bowles was born august 10, 1826 at Breckinridge, KY and departed this life at Mulvane, KS, June 28, 1909, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 18 days. She was married to Jesse P. Bowles at Old Chapel, IL on August 6, 1846 who survives her; although he is very feeble and is halting on the border land. Their married life has covered a period of 60 years, 10 months, and 22 days.
To this union were born eight children. Six girls and two boys all of whom are still living except Mary, who died in Ill. at 17 years of age. Those living are: America J. Canady, Martha V. Fields, Cassander M. Wright, Anna M. Thompson, Molly J. Eck and Wm. D. Bowles-all members of the Church of Christ.
Sister Bowles became obedient to the Gospel when she was 14 years of age, and continued in the faith until her death. She was afflicted with blindness for 5 years yet never murmuring or complaining. She, with her husband came to Kansas in the spring of 1873, settling on a farm on the Arkansas River, three miles west of Mulvane, moved to Mulvane in the spring of 1884 and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Theo Eck, where she resided at the time of her death.
She leaves her aged husband, five daughters, two sons, twenty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives, neighbors and friends to mourn their loss. The writer was called to conduct the funeral services at Mulvane. Speaking on the assurance of the resurrection, after which we laid her to rest in the Prairie Home Cemetery near which place she first met to worship in Kansas.
The following verse is inserted by the request of her aged and loving husband: "Love is a golden chain that binds The souls of them above. And he is an heir of heaven, who finds; His bosom glows with love."
Marriage to Jesse Payne BOWLES
6 Aug 1846
Age: 19
Old Chapel, IL
Mariah P. Bevins Bowles was born august 10, 1826 at Breckinridge, KY and departed this life at Mulvane, KS, June 28, 1909, aged 82 years, 10 months, and 18 days. She was married to Jesse P. Bowles at Old Chapel, IL on August 6, 1846 who survives her; although he is very feeble and is halting on the border land. Their married life has covered a period of 60 years, 10 months, and 22 days.
To this union were born eight children. Six girls and two boys all of whom are still living except Mary, who died in Ill. at 17 years of age. Those living are: America J. Canady, Martha V. Fields, Cassander M. Wright, Anna M. Thompson, Molly J. Eck and Wm. D. Bowles-all members of the Church of Christ.
Sister Bowles became obedient to the Gospel when she was 14 years of age, and continued in the faith until her death. She was afflicted with blindness for 5 years yet never murmuring or complaining. She, with her husband came to Kansas in the spring of 1873, settling on a farm on the Arkansas River, three miles west of Mulvane, moved to Mulvane in the spring of 1884 and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Theo Eck, where she resided at the time of her death.
She leaves her aged husband, five daughters, two sons, twenty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives, neighbors and friends to mourn their loss. The writer was called to conduct the funeral services at Mulvane. Speaking on the assurance of the resurrection, after which we laid her to rest in the Prairie Home Cemetery near which place she first met to worship in Kansas.
The following verse is inserted by the request of her aged and loving husband: "Love is a golden chain that binds The souls of them above. And he is an heir of heaven, who finds; His bosom glows with love."
Marriage to Jesse Payne BOWLES
6 Aug 1846
Age: 19
Old Chapel, IL
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