•Marriage: John William Bowers on Nov 10, 1855 in El Dorado County, California
•Died: Oct 14, 1879, Bowers Ranch on the Farwell Grant near Chico, California at age 42
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U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 Rebeka C Bowers Female Married Place of Birth: Ohio abt 1837. Age: 43 Month of Death: Oct Cause of Death: Heart Disease. Census Year: 1880 Census Location: (City, County, State)Dayton, Butte, California Enumeration District: 12 Line: 1 Archive Collection Number: 97:7.
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" ... I got married about a year afterwards to Miss Catherine Van Fossen, a seventeen year old Ohio girl. My wife had been in California two or three years..." Source: Biography of John William Bowers, contributed by Gerald Lively April 2004, from article printed in the Butte County Edition of the San Francisco Journal of Commerce, 1887.
•Marriage: John William Bowers on Nov 10, 1855 in El Dorado County, California
•Died: Oct 14, 1879, Bowers Ranch on the Farwell Grant near Chico, California at age 42
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U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 Rebeka C Bowers Female Married Place of Birth: Ohio abt 1837. Age: 43 Month of Death: Oct Cause of Death: Heart Disease. Census Year: 1880 Census Location: (City, County, State)Dayton, Butte, California Enumeration District: 12 Line: 1 Archive Collection Number: 97:7.
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" ... I got married about a year afterwards to Miss Catherine Van Fossen, a seventeen year old Ohio girl. My wife had been in California two or three years..." Source: Biography of John William Bowers, contributed by Gerald Lively April 2004, from article printed in the Butte County Edition of the San Francisco Journal of Commerce, 1887.
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