Marjorie
I would also like to know if you have any information on Calvin Bowman
Marianne
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From: Elsie Simpson <elsiesimpson(a)comcast.net>
To: <INALLEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: 3/13/2005 7:52:13 PM
Subject: Re: [INALLEN-L] Hannah (Bowman) Fisher bio.
Marjorie:
Do you have any information on Calvin Bowman? This is all so interesting.
Thanks
Elsie Simpson
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Subject: [INALLEN-L] Hannah (Bowman) Fisher bio.
> Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, 1917, by B. J. Grisswold, V.11
> Hannah Ann (Bowman) Fisher, widow of the late Samuel Fisher, long a
prominent
> resident of Roanoke and herself one of the foremost women of the
community,
> was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1835, and is the daughter
of
> Henry and Harriet (Armstrong) Bowman, who were natives of Ohio and
> Pennsylvania, respectively. Henry Bowman was a prosperous stockman all
his active life.
> He came to Indiana in 1853, at a time when travel was difficult and
only
hard
> work was rewarded with any measure of prosperity. He drove the family
and
> household possessions through from Ohio, the familiar ox team
and wagon
of the
> day being an important factor in the journey, and in 1852 bought a
tract
of
> two hundred acres of wild land. They experienced all the rigors of
early
life
> in the wilderness, subjected to the dangers from wild animals and
Indians, but
> they fared well in spite of those difficulties, and became one of the
> prominent and well-to-do families of the community as the years passed.
Mr. Bowman
> was township trustee for a number of years, and also served some years
in
> quiet retirement on his home place. Ten children were born to
Mr. and
Mrs.
> Bowman. Hannah Ann, the immediate subject of this review, was the first
born.
> Sarah is the wife of Thomas Crawford of Roanoke, Elizabeth is deceased,
also
> Malinda. Harriet Jane is the fifth child, Mary Elizabeth was the next
born.
> Mathias Walter, Henry, Calvin and Charles are all deceased. Hannah Ann
Bowman was
> married on July 4, 1859, to Samuel Fisher, the son of David and Sarah
Jane
> (Wherry) Fisher, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in early
life.
Samuel
was
> educated after the manner of farmers' sons. He came to Allen county in
1853
> and found work there, later buying a farm of eighty acres. It was
unclaimed
> land, without a cleared spot large enough to erect a little home. The
Fisher
> home was the first plank house in the neighborhood finished throughout
in
black
> walnut, that fine old wood of which so much was found in Indiana at
that
> time, and the family lived there for many years. Mr. Fisher was
an
energetic and
> progressive man and gained a considerable prominence in his town during
his
> lifetime. He was a Republican and was township supervisor for seven
years. He
> died on Jan. 14, 1911, and his widow is living on the old home place
> practically alone. They were the parents of eight children. Ivester
lives
in
> Huntington county. Harriett Amanda is deceased. Lucinda Alice became
the
wife of Hugh
> McFadden and lives in Aboite township. Ida and Sarah Jane are deceased.
> Leona Dell married Cyrus Johnson and is a resident of Lafayette
township.
Mary
> Luetta is the wife of Albert G. Foulks, and Henry D. is a resident of
Fort
> Wayne and a conductor on the Pennsylvania road. There are eighteen
grandchildren
> and eighteen great-grandchildren in the family at the present time.
Ivester,
> the eldest child of Mrs. Fisher, has nine children, named Irma, Edna,
Elva,
> Eva, Esther, Marion, Lennie, John and Florence. Lucinda also has nine
> children, named Edith, Anna, Russell, Otis, Mode, Elizabeth, Fay,
Lester
and Wilma.
> The great-grandchildren are as follows: Irma, eldest child of Ivester,
now
> deceased, left Helen, Eldon and Evelyn. Edna, the second daughter of
Ivester has
> Audra, Francis and Ruth. Elda is the father of Harley and Maxine.
Linnie
has
> one child, Wilhelmina. Edith is the mother of a son, Royal. Anna has
three
> children, Hugh, Helen and Ethel. Etta has four children, Arval, Mabel,
Glenn
> and Wyburn, and the first born of these is the father of one son,
Arthur
> Aaron. Mrs. Fisher has thus, at the age of eighty-two, the
distinction
of
being
> great-great-grandmother, and she is still enjoying good health and
finds
much
> pleasure in the contemplation of the activities of the younger
generation
that
> have come up about her.
>
>