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Rev Silas Bowker

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Rev Silas Bowker

Birth
Genoa, Cayuga County, New York, USA
Death
27 Sep 1888 (aged 80)
Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.5114214, Longitude: -85.3266553
Plot
1st addition, Lot 101, Plot 3 (southerly section and the grave sites are located furthest from the road along the back)
Memorial ID
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From the first assessment-roll made for Hope township in 1850 is taken the subjoined list of resident tax-payers, together with amount and location of each one's land: he owned 160 acres in section 22

Occupation: farmer

~ Minister @ Brush Ridge, Barry Co., MI
~ First pastor of Second Baptist Church, Granges Township, MI (in 1868)
~ Justice of the Peace, 1868
~ Town Supervisor (1851-1852; 1859-60) & School Inspector for Hope Township, 1850

(sources: "History of Allegan and Barry counties, Michigan. . .", by Crisfield Johnson, 1880, pp. 213, 438)
From the first assessment-roll made for Hope township in 1850 is taken the subjoined list of resident tax-payers, together with amount and location of each one's land: he owned 160 acres in section 22

Occupation: farmer

~ Minister @ Brush Ridge, Barry Co., MI
~ First pastor of Second Baptist Church, Granges Township, MI (in 1868)
~ Justice of the Peace, 1868
~ Town Supervisor (1851-1852; 1859-60) & School Inspector for Hope Township, 1850

(sources: "History of Allegan and Barry counties, Michigan. . .", by Crisfield Johnson, 1880, pp. 213, 438)


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