The following article was printed in the Lockport Union Sun and Journal on Monday August 29, 1938:

"Samuel Bowler Dies.

The funeral of Samuel Bowler, 73, of 62 Roby street former International Railway company lineman, who died at 6:30 Sunday morning after an illness of several months will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Gliddon, 16 Grant street. Burial will be in Cold Springs cemetery.

Mr. Bowler was employed by the railway company for 25 years prior to his retirement about seven years ago.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. A. P. Beader, Royal Oak, Mich.; Mrs. Leonard Gliddon and Miss Mary Bowler, Lockport; two sons, William Bowler, Buffalo, and Elmer Bowler, Lockport; three sisters, Mrs. William H. Bennett, Philadelphia; Mrs. George Robinson, Titusville,Pa.; and Mrs. Frank Lambert, Lockport; and two brothers, Richard and Garfield Bowler, Lockport."

Published on page 3 of the Lockport Union Sun and Journal on Monday Evening August 29, 1938:

"The funeral of Samuel Bowler,73, of 62 Roby street former International Railway company lineman, who died at 6:30 Sunday morning after an illness of several months will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Gliddon, 16 Grand street. Burial will be in Cold Springs cemetery.

Mr. Bowler was employed by the railway company for 25 years prior to his retirement about seven years ago.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. A. P. Beader, Royal Oak, Mich.; Mrs. Leonard Gliddon and Miss Mary Bowler, Lockport; two sons, William Bowler, Buffalo, and Elmer Bowler, Lockport; three sisters, Mrs. William H. Bemmette, Philadelphia; Mrs. George Robinson, Titusville, Pa.; and Mrs. Frank Lambert, Lockport; and two brothers, Richard and Garfield Bowler, Lockport."

This person's name appears in the record of burials from the Niagara County Poorhouse, in possession of the Niagara County Historian's Office. Burials from the Poorhouse were made at the Niagara County Almshouse Cemetery on Niagara Street Extension in the Town of Lockport until about 1915, at which point burials were made at the Niagara County Infirmary Cemetery on Davison Road in the City of Lockport. The page depicted is from the burial ledger courtesy of the Niagara County Historian. Most of the graves in the Niagara County Almshouse Cemetery are unmarked, all of the graves in the Niagara County Infirmary Cemetery are unmarked. In later years, burials from the Niagara County Almshouse were made in various cemeteries.