Aged 65 years
Civil War:
Company E.
2nd Regiment New York Heavy Artillery
The Walnut Valley Times
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, March 12, 1906
page 4
Joe Bowers Is Dead.
C.C. or "Joe" Bowers, for more than a century a well-known character of El Dorado and Butler County, died in Kansas City, it is supposed today, Monday. The telegram to W.Y. Miller simply announces his demise and asks what shall be done with the body. It will doubtless be sent here. Mr. Bowers had gone to the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, expecting to go from there to Hot Springs and "boil out" the rheumatism. Poor Joe was addicted to alcoholism, and it is feared he indulged to such an extent that it ended his life. He was unmarried. Bowers was an ex-Union soldier, had many good qualities. He will probably be buried here, but why not at the Soldier's home is unaccountable. He died of rheumatism of the heart. He has a sister in New York and a brother who has been a congressman from California, who survives him.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2022
Civil War:
Company E.
2nd Regiment New York Heavy Artillery
The Walnut Valley Times
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, March 12, 1906
page 4
Joe Bowers Is Dead.
C.C. or "Joe" Bowers, for more than a century a well-known character of El Dorado and Butler County, died in Kansas City, it is supposed today, Monday. The telegram to W.Y. Miller simply announces his demise and asks what shall be done with the body. It will doubtless be sent here. Mr. Bowers had gone to the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, expecting to go from there to Hot Springs and "boil out" the rheumatism. Poor Joe was addicted to alcoholism, and it is feared he indulged to such an extent that it ended his life. He was unmarried. Bowers was an ex-Union soldier, had many good qualities. He will probably be buried here, but why not at the Soldier's home is unaccountable. He died of rheumatism of the heart. He has a sister in New York and a brother who has been a congressman from California, who survives him.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2022
Aged 65 years
Civil War:
Company E.
2nd Regiment New York Heavy Artillery
The Walnut Valley Times
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, March 12, 1906
page 4
Joe Bowers Is Dead.
C.C. or "Joe" Bowers, for more than a century a well-known character of El Dorado and Butler County, died in Kansas City, it is supposed today, Monday. The telegram to W.Y. Miller simply announces his demise and asks what shall be done with the body. It will doubtless be sent here. Mr. Bowers had gone to the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, expecting to go from there to Hot Springs and "boil out" the rheumatism. Poor Joe was addicted to alcoholism, and it is feared he indulged to such an extent that it ended his life. He was unmarried. Bowers was an ex-Union soldier, had many good qualities. He will probably be buried here, but why not at the Soldier's home is unaccountable. He died of rheumatism of the heart. He has a sister in New York and a brother who has been a congressman from California, who survives him.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2022
Civil War:
Company E.
2nd Regiment New York Heavy Artillery
The Walnut Valley Times
El Dorado, Kansas
Monday, March 12, 1906
page 4
Joe Bowers Is Dead.
C.C. or "Joe" Bowers, for more than a century a well-known character of El Dorado and Butler County, died in Kansas City, it is supposed today, Monday. The telegram to W.Y. Miller simply announces his demise and asks what shall be done with the body. It will doubtless be sent here. Mr. Bowers had gone to the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, expecting to go from there to Hot Springs and "boil out" the rheumatism. Poor Joe was addicted to alcoholism, and it is feared he indulged to such an extent that it ended his life. He was unmarried. Bowers was an ex-Union soldier, had many good qualities. He will probably be buried here, but why not at the Soldier's home is unaccountable. He died of rheumatism of the heart. He has a sister in New York and a brother who has been a congressman from California, who survives him.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) August 2022
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