EARNEST W. BOWERMAN
b. 12 November 1848, Conneaut Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, to William Welling and Diadema (Lester) Bowerman
d. 18 December 1928, Kansas City, Missouri
m. 3 July 1870, Decatur County, Iowa
Julia Stanley
b. 5 May 1851, to Corydon and Ann E. Stanley
Children with Julia Stanley:
- Claudie (1872-1873)
- Edith Edna (b. 1873) married J. P. Mullin
- Frank P. (b. 1875)
- Roy W. “Willie” (b. 1881) (twin)
- Ray E. (b. 1881) (twin)
- Lillian (b. 1887)
The 1860 census of Jennings Township, Crawford County, Indiana, shows Earnest and his parents living there. Earnest was in Company F, 36th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War. He was a partial invalid as a result of his Civil War service and resided at times in the State Soldier’s Home in Beadle County, South Dakota. He lived in Iowa until 1906, then in Taylor, Decatur, and Davison counties, South Dakota, before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1921.
Submitted by:
A. L. Bowerman 1820 W. 600N
Howe IN