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History of Bowen- Green families 1793-1928
This History of Bowen-Green families, came to me through Mrs. Osborn (Jomisty@aol.com) of Michigan, who has been doing Bowen family research since approx.1990.
I have been researching the origins of the name Green Bowen, and have some information posted on a web site at http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~bowen/index.html., this is how she came to contact me and sent me a copy of the Bowen- Green families history.
Mrs. Osborns cover letter stated, ....."when the gentleman that sent me this copy wrote me the the second time, he said he had remembered that the little lady that had given him the copy told him that all her family were now living in Texas"....
We are unsure of who this little lady was and if she was a contributing author,or simply the caretaker of this little history that I present here.
In the text of the Green family section of the history is the sentence "Addison Theodarus Green, the author of this sketch...". I am not certain if if Addison wrote the entire text of this Bowen-Green history, or the Green section of the history. It is probable that he is the author of this entire history since in the Bowen section a sentence reads " Mary E. Bowen married Addison T. Green (fuller details will appear in the Green sketch)." If Addison Green is the author, he refers to himself throught the text, in the third person.
Thanks to Addison T. Green,the little old lady, the gentleman that passed it on & to Mrs. Osborn.This history transcribed by Ben Bowen of the Tennesse, North Carolina, Illinois & Texas Bowen's on January 22, 2000.
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Attached at the end of the transcription is some addition information concerning Daniel & Hiram Bowen also mentioned in the history.-----
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HISTORY
OF
Bowen-Green
FAMILIES
1793 1928
PREFACE
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These sketches o' the allied Bowen-Green families, commencing with George W. Bowen and Weaver Green and incidentally mentioning their realatives, as pioneers, and makers and defenders of this great country of which we are all so justly proud, many of them having taken an honorable part,some having made the supreme sacrifice that this nation might endure forever,and their posterity enjoy freedom and liberty to the end of time.
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George W. Bowen, was born in Vermont in 1796. He was the son of Asa Bowen, who took part in the great American Revolution,and was with Washington at Valley Forge and shared with the other members of the army, the privations of the ill clad, ill fed army of patriots. He also served in the war of 1812.
About 1822, George W. Bowen was united in marriage with Phebe Carser and settled in western New York, where George operated grist mills at Lockport and Middleport. Four sons and two daughters were born, whose names appear in the following order : Henry, Mareo,George,Amelia,Andrew, and Phebe. In 1841 the wife and mother died, Amelia,Andrew and Phebe needed a mother's care, and in 1842, the father was again married to Gertrude Davis, who filled the mothers place acceptably and well. On January 5, 1843, the second marriage bore fruit; Mary E. was born, and on December, 31, 1847, another daughter, Sarah R. came to bless the home.
In 1852, Most of the family came to Michigan and lived in Wakeshusa, Bedford, and Bellevue, before coming to Kalamo. Eaton County, in 1860, where the husband and father died September 28, 1869, leaving the wife and all the sons and daughters, except George, who died in Beaufort, North Carolina, while in the army in January,1865. Henry, who lived at the parental home also took part in the great rebellion.
Frank R. Bowen, son of George Jr., also William Bowen, deceased, Maxwell G. Bowen. son of William Bowen, was born at Fort Collins, Colorado, 1883, and served in the World War on the Destroyer S.S. Lawrence as convoy. John Bowen, Drucilla Harkness and Libbie Cushing, son and daughters of Andrew Bowen.
Josephine Hodges and Mrs. Gertrude Hamilton, are all surviving grand children of the Bowen-Hodges families, seven others having passed to the great beyond. There are six other grand children who will appear in another sketch. All the sons and daughters of George W. Bowen, are now deceased, except Mrs. Sarah R. Hodges, who married William Hodges in 1866, on her 19th birthday; to them were born two daughters and two sons. Josephine, who retains her maiden name and lives at the parental home, and Gertrude, who married Alex Hamilton, all residing in Bellevue,Mich. The two sons. Norman and Mark are deceased. William Hodges, husband and father, died April, 24, 1873, at Bellevue, Mich. He also served his country in the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry.Thus another man is added to the credit of the defenders of Liberty and the Union. Mary E. Bowen, married Addison T. Green (fuller details will appear in the the Green sketch).
Let us not forget that Daniel and Hiram Bowen, nephews of George W. Bowen, were the first two white settlers with their wives, to brave the wilderness in Kalamo.
Thus closes the life chapter of a kind husband and father,an honorable citizen and good neighbor.One who done his part and did it well, to make life worth living. Also to make Michigan, the State beautiful to live in.We trust his eternal reward is in harmony with his life work and deeds. Uncle George, as he was familiarily called, left many descendants, past and present. all filling honorable, though humble stations in life. Peace be to the ashes of the departed.______________
Weaver Green, son of Joseph Green, was born in Rhode Island, January 7,1793. His father, Joseph Green, served under General Stark during the American Revolution. In 1800, the family moved to Seoharie County New York, where young Weaver attended school five monhs; that was considered a finished education in those days. In 1813, he answered his country's call,and served under General Alexander Macomb at Plattsburg, New York. On June 12, 1816, he was united in marriage with Jane Doty, daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. He died at Kalamo, Mich. August, 20, 1870.
Four sons came to brighten the home; the youngest, Ira W. Green, father, grand father, great grand father, and great great grandfather to the present generations, was born November 17, 1823. In June, 1849 he was united in marriage with Phebe C. Flint. Three sons were born to them; Addison T., Emmet W. and Clark V., the last two in Kalamo, Mich. The family, except Addison, moved to Sheridan Michigan in 1866, where the mother died April 27 and the father May 4, 1872.
Addison Theodarus Green, the author of this sketch, was born at Sprout Brook, Montgomery County, New York, May 27, 1850. In 1851, he, with his parents and grand parents, came to Michigan and located in Kalamo, Eaton County, in the Wilson school district, where he and Mrs. Hodges attended school. In the late fifties and early sixties, in 1865, his school days closed and he commenced the active duties of life in farming and carpentering.
Addison T. Green and Mary E. Bowen, were married at Bellevue, Mich, September5 ,1869 and commenced housekeeping on the Green farm in Kalamo township, where the first child, Ruth M. was born July 26, 1870. She later married Jacob R. Norton, and died at Traverse City, February 27, 1912, leaving the husband and nine children; one having joined her in the spirit of the world. In 1872 the family moved to Bellevue, where George W. Now of Lansing was born, March 14, 1872. In December the family returned to Kalamo, the birthplace of the other four children.
Genevive A. of Lansing, born July, 17,1879. Gladys L., born July,11,1880, married Shirley Randolph of Battle Creek and died at Aberdeen, Washington, January 5,1913, leaving the husband and three daughters to mourn her death.
Nettie Ione, was born April 17, 1882, wife of Fred Pakes and lives at Stanton, Michigan. They have five children; one daughter and four sons.
George Green married Hattie White,who died in September,1926, leaving two daughters and two sons. Harry Green married Sadie Carver and have no children. Mary E.. the first wife of A.T.Green, died in Battle Creek, November 1893, Mr. Green again married in 1895, Nellie E. Logan of Stanton, where they now reside.They have one son, Hazen L., who married Edna Schneider. They live in Detroit and have no children. We have already given the war record of Joseph and Weaver Green and later, J.W. Green was in the civil war. Lewis and Almon,the sons of George Green served in the World War.
Almon went overseas with the 119th Field artillery. Hazen Green and Jacob O. Norton, son and grandson of A.T. Green, went over seas with the Sixteenth Railway Engineers. A good record to hand down to their posterity, and of which their ancestors need not be ashamed.In conclusion, some may have erred; to err is human, to forgive divine. Then let us forget the past and hold fast to the present. Let those, if any, that would cast the first stone.
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IN MEMORIAM
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A History of Kalamo Township :
Kalamo Township Historical Society-1989 Page 3Daniel B. Bowen
In September 1836, Daniel B. Bowen was married at Shelby, New York, to Miss Beulah D. Cox, and in less than three weeks the newlyweds started for Michigan. They arrived in November and settled in the southwest part of the township, in the Evans district. Daniel's brother, Hiram, came at the same time with his wife and four children. The Bowens had previously been here and had purchased land. It took them about a week to build shanties on their property. The day after their arrival, Daniel planted apple seeds in a sap trough, and from them he raised a fine orchard. The trees bore fruit six years later. In those days the Bowens furnished accommodations for numerous land hunters and for travelers en route to Vermontville.Harvey Wilson of Orleans County, New York, married a sister to Mrs. Daniel Bowen, and they moved to Kalamo in 1838. Wilson's brother, Peter, came later.
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