| Obit For | Jacob Bower |
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| Headline | - |
| Text | Obituary: Died, Saturday, Oct. 14, at 8:05, am. of typhoid fever. Jacob Bower of Lohmarsburg, aged fifty seven years and eleven months and eleven days. Jacob Bower was born near Knoxville, Tenn. His mother dying at the age of three months and his father three months later, he was raised by a brother. At this age of sixteen he went to Indiana and upon the breaking out of the war enlisted in Co. E. 19 Ind. Inf. and served three years and three months. In 1865 he married Louisa Talbert, who with their son, J. M. survives him. In 1870 they went to Northeastern Missouri but returned to Indiana. In 1878 they came to Cassville, but returned to Indiana eighteen months later. In 1881 they moved to Mineral Springs and have resided in this county since, in Cassville, Purdy, and Lohmarsburg, the scene of his death. By trade Mr. Bower was a carpenter but had not followed it in recent years. The remains were interred in the Cassville cemetery, Sunday, after a short service conducted by Rev. J. W. Ennes. |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | Cassville Republican |
| Date | Oct. 19, 1899, Thursday |
| Death Cert Link | - |
| Resource | State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by | Donna Cooper |
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