Margaret Ann Bowers Commons
August 14, 1819 - January 18, 1893
Married David B. Commons November 7, 1838, Wayne County, Indiana. Per her obituary, she was the mother of eight children. Currently six of these children have been found and linked to her memorial.
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Died at her late home near Baxter Springs on Wednesday, January 18, 1893, at 12:30 a.m., Mrs. Margaret Commons, aged 73 years, 5 months and 4 days. Funeral services were held at the Lowell school house Thursday, the 19th, at 11 o’clock. Rev. M.E. Bramhall officiating, which were attended by a very large number of the friends of the deceased, not withstanding the severe cold weather. The remains were laid to rest at the Lowell cemetery.
Mrs. Commons was among the earliest settlers in this vicinity and was one amongst the many unfortunate women whose cup of sorrow was filled to the brim through the cruel and lawless act of such men as Quantrell and his followers during the exciting days of peril along the Kansas border from 1861- ’65. Her maiden name was Bowers and she was born in Hummelstown, Pa., on the 14th of August, 1819.
Early in life she moved with her parents to Liberty, Ind. And later to Centerville, Indiana, where she was married to David B. Commons November 7, 1838, and the following year moved to Mt. Carmel, Ill. After a short stay there the couple removed to Missouri.
In 1861 the family removed to the farm upon which Mrs. Commons had resided almost constantly since that date and upon which she died. This was the identical piece of land over which the man Baxter, for whom the town of Baxter Springs was afterward named, and one named Rogers had the fatal quarrel in which Baxter and two others were killed.
Mr. Commons purchased the land from Rogers and lived upon it a short time about the time of the beginning of the late Civil War, he and his oldest son J.R. Commons, being driven from home and family by the rebels. For several months their whereabouts was unknown to the wife and family, but finally they returned with a company of union soldiers and took the family north to Coffey County, Kansas, for safety, where the father died in February, 1863.
At the close of the war in 1865 Mrs. Commons returned with her family to their farm on Spring River where she has resided since. In the year 1842 she united with the congregational church, in which she remained until her death. For nearly six years she has been an invalid, and doubtless death was to her but a release from long years of anxiety and suffering. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom three sons and one daughter, still alive to mourn her departure. They with all of their children, sixteen in number, were present at her funeral. She was a devoted wife and a kind and faithful mother.
Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas
21 Jan 1893, Saturday
Page 5
Contributed by shnivens, #49243331
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August 14, 1819 - January 18, 1893
Married David B. Commons November 7, 1838, Wayne County, Indiana. Per her obituary, she was the mother of eight children. Currently six of these children have been found and linked to her memorial.
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Died at her late home near Baxter Springs on Wednesday, January 18, 1893, at 12:30 a.m., Mrs. Margaret Commons, aged 73 years, 5 months and 4 days. Funeral services were held at the Lowell school house Thursday, the 19th, at 11 o’clock. Rev. M.E. Bramhall officiating, which were attended by a very large number of the friends of the deceased, not withstanding the severe cold weather. The remains were laid to rest at the Lowell cemetery.
Mrs. Commons was among the earliest settlers in this vicinity and was one amongst the many unfortunate women whose cup of sorrow was filled to the brim through the cruel and lawless act of such men as Quantrell and his followers during the exciting days of peril along the Kansas border from 1861- ’65. Her maiden name was Bowers and she was born in Hummelstown, Pa., on the 14th of August, 1819.
Early in life she moved with her parents to Liberty, Ind. And later to Centerville, Indiana, where she was married to David B. Commons November 7, 1838, and the following year moved to Mt. Carmel, Ill. After a short stay there the couple removed to Missouri.
In 1861 the family removed to the farm upon which Mrs. Commons had resided almost constantly since that date and upon which she died. This was the identical piece of land over which the man Baxter, for whom the town of Baxter Springs was afterward named, and one named Rogers had the fatal quarrel in which Baxter and two others were killed.
Mr. Commons purchased the land from Rogers and lived upon it a short time about the time of the beginning of the late Civil War, he and his oldest son J.R. Commons, being driven from home and family by the rebels. For several months their whereabouts was unknown to the wife and family, but finally they returned with a company of union soldiers and took the family north to Coffey County, Kansas, for safety, where the father died in February, 1863.
At the close of the war in 1865 Mrs. Commons returned with her family to their farm on Spring River where she has resided since. In the year 1842 she united with the congregational church, in which she remained until her death. For nearly six years she has been an invalid, and doubtless death was to her but a release from long years of anxiety and suffering. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom three sons and one daughter, still alive to mourn her departure. They with all of their children, sixteen in number, were present at her funeral. She was a devoted wife and a kind and faithful mother.
Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas
21 Jan 1893, Saturday
Page 5
Contributed by shnivens, #49243331
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Margaret Ann Bowers Commons
August 14, 1819 - January 18, 1893
Married David B. Commons November 7, 1838, Wayne County, Indiana. Per her obituary, she was the mother of eight children. Currently six of these children have been found and linked to her memorial.
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Died at her late home near Baxter Springs on Wednesday, January 18, 1893, at 12:30 a.m., Mrs. Margaret Commons, aged 73 years, 5 months and 4 days. Funeral services were held at the Lowell school house Thursday, the 19th, at 11 o’clock. Rev. M.E. Bramhall officiating, which were attended by a very large number of the friends of the deceased, not withstanding the severe cold weather. The remains were laid to rest at the Lowell cemetery.
Mrs. Commons was among the earliest settlers in this vicinity and was one amongst the many unfortunate women whose cup of sorrow was filled to the brim through the cruel and lawless act of such men as Quantrell and his followers during the exciting days of peril along the Kansas border from 1861- ’65. Her maiden name was Bowers and she was born in Hummelstown, Pa., on the 14th of August, 1819.
Early in life she moved with her parents to Liberty, Ind. And later to Centerville, Indiana, where she was married to David B. Commons November 7, 1838, and the following year moved to Mt. Carmel, Ill. After a short stay there the couple removed to Missouri.
In 1861 the family removed to the farm upon which Mrs. Commons had resided almost constantly since that date and upon which she died. This was the identical piece of land over which the man Baxter, for whom the town of Baxter Springs was afterward named, and one named Rogers had the fatal quarrel in which Baxter and two others were killed.
Mr. Commons purchased the land from Rogers and lived upon it a short time about the time of the beginning of the late Civil War, he and his oldest son J.R. Commons, being driven from home and family by the rebels. For several months their whereabouts was unknown to the wife and family, but finally they returned with a company of union soldiers and took the family north to Coffey County, Kansas, for safety, where the father died in February, 1863.
At the close of the war in 1865 Mrs. Commons returned with her family to their farm on Spring River where she has resided since. In the year 1842 she united with the congregational church, in which she remained until her death. For nearly six years she has been an invalid, and doubtless death was to her but a release from long years of anxiety and suffering. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom three sons and one daughter, still alive to mourn her departure. They with all of their children, sixteen in number, were present at her funeral. She was a devoted wife and a kind and faithful mother.
Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas
21 Jan 1893, Saturday
Page 5
Contributed by shnivens, #49243331
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August 14, 1819 - January 18, 1893
Married David B. Commons November 7, 1838, Wayne County, Indiana. Per her obituary, she was the mother of eight children. Currently six of these children have been found and linked to her memorial.
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Died at her late home near Baxter Springs on Wednesday, January 18, 1893, at 12:30 a.m., Mrs. Margaret Commons, aged 73 years, 5 months and 4 days. Funeral services were held at the Lowell school house Thursday, the 19th, at 11 o’clock. Rev. M.E. Bramhall officiating, which were attended by a very large number of the friends of the deceased, not withstanding the severe cold weather. The remains were laid to rest at the Lowell cemetery.
Mrs. Commons was among the earliest settlers in this vicinity and was one amongst the many unfortunate women whose cup of sorrow was filled to the brim through the cruel and lawless act of such men as Quantrell and his followers during the exciting days of peril along the Kansas border from 1861- ’65. Her maiden name was Bowers and she was born in Hummelstown, Pa., on the 14th of August, 1819.
Early in life she moved with her parents to Liberty, Ind. And later to Centerville, Indiana, where she was married to David B. Commons November 7, 1838, and the following year moved to Mt. Carmel, Ill. After a short stay there the couple removed to Missouri.
In 1861 the family removed to the farm upon which Mrs. Commons had resided almost constantly since that date and upon which she died. This was the identical piece of land over which the man Baxter, for whom the town of Baxter Springs was afterward named, and one named Rogers had the fatal quarrel in which Baxter and two others were killed.
Mr. Commons purchased the land from Rogers and lived upon it a short time about the time of the beginning of the late Civil War, he and his oldest son J.R. Commons, being driven from home and family by the rebels. For several months their whereabouts was unknown to the wife and family, but finally they returned with a company of union soldiers and took the family north to Coffey County, Kansas, for safety, where the father died in February, 1863.
At the close of the war in 1865 Mrs. Commons returned with her family to their farm on Spring River where she has resided since. In the year 1842 she united with the congregational church, in which she remained until her death. For nearly six years she has been an invalid, and doubtless death was to her but a release from long years of anxiety and suffering. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom three sons and one daughter, still alive to mourn her departure. They with all of their children, sixteen in number, were present at her funeral. She was a devoted wife and a kind and faithful mother.
Baxter Springs News
Baxter Springs, Kansas
21 Jan 1893, Saturday
Page 5
Contributed by shnivens, #49243331
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Inscription
MARGARET
Wife of
DAVID B. COMMONS
DIED
Jan. 18 1893.
Aged
73 Yrs. 5 Mo.
& 4 Ds.
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