Forty year resident of Carthage, Earnest was the son of Thomas Reed Bowen & Eliza Ann Airhart. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces, 88th Division, 350th Machine Gun company, as a Buglar in France 1918-1919 during WWI. A quarryman & stonecutter for Kellogg Marble company, he supplemnted his income as a carpenter. He met Corda Viena Harrill at a neighborhood boxed lunch & married her on 25 Sep 1920. They had five children: Mary Lindley, Ann Oldham, William R. Bowen, Virginia Ball, & Nancy Sparks. He died of acute heart attack caused by overwork at the young age of 45, and was survived by his immediate family and three siblings: Lizzie Hood, Fred Bowen, & Gleason Bowen. He was buried with Military Honors. I never got to meet him, but that picture of him, his father, and brother Gleason always hung in the front bedroom of Granny's house for the three years I lived with her before joining the Navy. Uncle Bill had this portrait of him among his photos. I had never seen it before 2009. It was taken in France. He was gassed by the Germans, and I think that was a contributing cause to his early death.
Forty year resident of Carthage, Earnest was the son of Thomas Reed Bowen & Eliza Ann Airhart. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces, 88th Division, 350th Machine Gun company, as a Buglar in France 1918-1919 during WWI. A quarryman & stonecutter for Kellogg Marble company, he supplemnted his income as a carpenter. He met Corda Viena Harrill at a neighborhood boxed lunch & married her on 25 Sep 1920. They had five children: Mary Lindley, Ann Oldham, William R. Bowen, Virginia Ball, & Nancy Sparks. He died of acute heart attack caused by overwork at the young age of 45, and was survived by his immediate family and three siblings: Lizzie Hood, Fred Bowen, & Gleason Bowen. He was buried with Military Honors. I never got to meet him, but that picture of him, his father, and brother Gleason always hung in the front bedroom of Granny's house for the three years I lived with her before joining the Navy. Uncle Bill had this portrait of him among his photos. I had never seen it before 2009. It was taken in France. He was gassed by the Germans, and I think that was a contributing cause to his early death.
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