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^ | row escape Irom drowning.r « tT13Birthday Dinner.to thVAn enjoyable birthday dinner wasCity1served at the home of T. B, Smith ongamrEast Fifth street last Thursday, theto flioccasion of the 79th birthday anni-dicaVversay of Milton V. Bowman, brotherwinmof Mrs. Smith. There were presentthisfive brothers and. three sisters of theof lcyBowman family. M. V. Bowman, ofcamHIi*this place, 79 years old; Margaret A,astriiBarker, of Fowler,74; Sarah A. Smith,gam0of this place, 72; Eliza A. Stout, of,tSheridan, 68; William N. Bowman, ofA6Williamsport, 67; John W. Bowman,Peodof Starks, La., 65; James N. BowofL.man, Remington, 61; Robert 1). BowGro0man, Starks, La., 57—their combinedmoci,ages being 546, the average age ofberthe brothers and sisters being 68tionyears and 3 months. This is the firstpar!time the eight have been togethertog*8Bince the funeral of their mother,at t[ttwenty years ago.bigi6The Bowmans are the children ofbut’tRobert Pickens Bowman and his wife,havESarah, of Hamilton county, thison1nState. The father was a nephew' ofSur3tCol. Robt. Pickens, of Revolutionarycondfame, for whom he was named. Therewealowere twelve children in the Bowmanthedfamily, four of whom are dead, theof tnlatest dtath among them having ocsondcurred 34 years ago. Besides these 8mbrothers and sisters, there were presGleent also, Benjamin Barker, of Fowler,innrta brother-in-law, who was also celeDri11brating his birthday—the 70th; Mrs.LaiarJames Bowman; Robert Bowman,basQ-grandson of John Bowman; Mrs. E.pit(iffZ. Mitzner, of Lafayette, and theWO]illchildren and grand-children of Mr.wita-and Mrs. Smith, who live here, andDriseJ. E. Travis, who if he could not takeShi’11part in the memories and associations16incident to the family reunion, did1enter into the spirit of the occasionheawhen dinner was Berved.noc
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Williamsport Warren Review
Williamsport, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1909
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