1796 Daniel Bowman, son of Christian Bowman, was born on June 29, 1796. [1]
1798 Elizabeth Good was born on December 19. [2] [3]
1817 Elizabeth Good married Daniel Bowman. [4] [5] [6]
1838 Son Elias Bowman died on March 17 and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elias Bowman was born on October 16, 1834. [7] [8]
1850 Daniel Bowman (age 53, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Bowman (age 52), and Leah Bowman (age 17). A nearby listing was for daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law John B Good. [9]
1860 Daniel Bauman (age 64, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Bauman (age 62). Daniel Bauman's occupation was farmer. A nearby listing was for daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law John B Good. [10]
1870 Daniel Bowman (age 74, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Bowman (age 71). Daniel Bowman's occupation was retired farmer. [11]
1875 Daniel Bowman died on May 24 and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [12] [13]
1875 An obituary for Daniel Bowman reported [14]:
March 25th, in Bowmansville, Lancaster Co., Pa., Daniel Bowman, aged 78 years and 9 months. Interred the 28th in the presence of many people, in the Bowmansville burying-ground. He was a member of the New Mennonites. Appropriate discourses were delivered by Benjamin Horning at the house, and Christian Clemmer at the church, from John 5:54.
1877 Elizabeth Bowman died, on August 14, and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [15] [16] [17] [18]
A biosketch of son-in-law, John B Good, reported [19]:
Mr [John B] Good married Elizabeth Bowman, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Good) Bowman and granddaughter of Christian and Elizabeth Bowman, the former miller of Berks County, Pennsylvania. Mrs Good was born in Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pa, which town was named after her father, who died in 1871, at the age of seventy-nine years. The mother was a native of Berks county, Pa, and died in 1873, at age seventy nine. The parents are buried in Bowmansville cemetery.
Research Notes:
Mennonite card file. [20]
[1] Jacob Huber (c 1700-1759), his personal copy, Martyr's Mirror, with notes about 3 generations of descendants (Ephrata, PA: Muddy Creek Farm Library, 1757, photographs by Mark Weitzel), [Photocopy], [Transcription], [CoverPage].
[2] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 115, JL1122 and (JL136), [GoogleBooks].
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 22, GC3112.
[4] Harry M. Hoover, The Huber-Hoover Family History (1928), 46, family 29, person 108b, [FamilySearch FSCatalog].
[5] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 115, JL1122 and (JL136), [GoogleBooks].
[6] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 22, GC3112.
[7] Find A Grave Memorial 86900980, [FindAGrave].
[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial 86866154, [FindAGrave].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Mennonite Obituary Archives, Herald of Truth - Volume XII, Number 5 - May 1875, [MennObits].
[15] Find A Grave Memorial 86866256, [FindAGrave].
[16] Barbara B. Ford, The Oberholtzer Book (1995), 115, JL1122 and (JL136), [GoogleBooks].
[17] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 22, GC3112.
[18] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[19] John F. Meginness et al, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania (Beers: 1903), 96, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[20] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].