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Severe Loss to Virginia as Bowman Passes at Salem
Representative from Salem Colonel Bowman, aged 67, long time chair of the House finance committee, dies after a lengthy illness at his home. A farmer and devout Lutheran, he served in the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry and was prisoner at Fort Delaware in 1865. He left a widow and four children. Funeral held yesterday. Speaker Byrd appointed a committee to attend the farm meeting.
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Virginia House of “Delegates
Salem
Virginia
House Committee On Finance
the Treasury
Lutheran Church
Roanoke College
Bowman
Rockingham County
Twelfth
Virginia Cavalry
Spottsylvania Courtpe
Yellow Tavern
Gettysburg
Petersburg
Richmond
Fort Delaware
Joist Hite
Cedar Creek
Frederick County
Isaac
John Vanmeter
George Bowman
Mary. Hite
Bk. Byrd
Williams
House
Tee
Martin Willams
Giles
William Watta
Roanoke City
J. Hy Wissler
Smythe County