Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-12-02
THE NORTHWEST.
OBITUARY.

BowEN.-At his home in Coshocton
o., November II, 1886, answered to thu
final roll call of the Supreme COmman
der of the Universe, William f. Bow
en-, formerly Of Florida, Henry county
Ohio, aged AZ years and month. De
ceased was born at Florida, Ohio, Octo
Der ~, 1874, the second son of Isaac
and Sarah Ann Bowen, whose maiden
name was Sarah Ann Barnhart. The
families of both parents were among the
very early pioneers of Henry county
About the year of 1S48 or 40 his father
died leaving wife and three children
His mother afterwards became the wife
Of Mr.. Isaac Karsner. Her death Oc.
curing few years later, the childre n
thus doubly orphaned remained in
mates of the home of their step-father
until arrived at mature years and Sc
cured homes of their own. But two
members of the elder Bowen family
are new living. Jessie at Florida, and
Mrs. Nancy Vert living in Iowa, and
also but two members of the elder
Barnhart family now survive, Mrs.
Adam Stout of Florida, Ohio, and Mrs.
George Lowery, of Napoleon.
In the dark days of '61 when treason
sought to dismember the union, strong
and great and traitor hands thought to
trail in the dust the hOnored old.fiag,
was organized the 6Sth Regt. 0. V. I.
In October, 'G1, boy of II years,
whose lips had not yet lost their childish
grace, with heart all ahme with patri-
otism and loyalty to country though a
boy with a beardless face, Willie Bow
en- was enrolled at Florida as O mem
Der of Co. f. of that Regiment. which
Company was raised and commanded
by his only brother, w. w. Bowen, and
being principally composed of boys less
than q years, was designated as the boy
company, its Captain boy among the
boys.
Veteranized with the Regiment in
Dec. 1S63,at Vicksburgh, Miss. Was dis
charged in July, 1865, at Cleveland, O.,
thus participating in fortunes and
vicissituds of the gallant old Regiment
showing the glories and fatigues of it's
many arduous campaigns and engage
ments, from its going into the field to |
its coming back.
In September 1866, he was married
at the residence of Isaac KarsneN in
Florida, to Margaret Shupe, Rev. John
X. Colgan, then a resident of Napoleon,
officiating. Four or five years after his
marriage he resided at Florida and De-
lance, when he moved to Logansport,
IND few years afterward to Coshoc-
on, o., where he resided up to the pc
'lod of his death. In Oct. of the pres
mt year for the first time since his re-
noval from Defiance he visited the
'ome of his boyhood, and friends all
elt sadened at his precarous' health.
lie left for his home and family in Co
hocton about Oct. Goth, and from
hereon failed rapidly, his death occurr-
ng Nov. llth; burial Nov. 18th. He t
caves wife and one son 10 years of age, e
ne brother. Capt. w. w. Bowen, Cam I
ron, Mo-, one sister, Mrs. G. w. Scott. Il
[icksville, o., one half brother, DR.. A. II
!. karsner, of Toledo, o., and one half 81
ster, Mrs. b. F. Champion, of Flori- 5
a, o.
Comrades of the 6Sth Regiment O, o
. WI, once again you are called upon n
close up your ranks, and brought to .
lresn realization of the fact that year re
year thinner grows your ranks. Once u
ore you are called to witness the final TO
uster out of a comrade tried and true, pr
gain has been severed that bond al
at bindeth close as family ties; of
e We're comrades together in the
US or the war. He was beloved by
conrads and respected by all who J.
ew hIn1' Old time friends sympa- ca
re with the stricken wife and son in al all
$ their hour Of deep bereavement. m,
out and beyond the picket line, M
Ehto the shadows heavy ana dun, in.
Ahe "hoys" that stood IN the battle from, XII
are steadily marching one by one, col
Steadily marching with soldierly tread tiv
10 join the ranks of the mighty deadn am
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