Ephraim Buffington BOWSER

April 9, 1851-January 30, 1933

Father: Jonas BOWSER (July 13, 1811-June 11, 1891)
Mother: Margaret BOWSER (July 30, 1818-May 5, 1898)

Wife: Margaret Catherine GRAY (March 12, 1857-November 24, 1931)


Children:
Mary Effie BOWSER (November 29, 1873-December 10, 1946) *married Joseph Clement SHERIDAN; married John GODDARD
Nana Belle BOWSER (December 15, 1876-September 21, 1962) *married William Maskel COX on February 25, 1895 in Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Carolyn "Carrie" Margaret BOWSER (January 1, 1880-September 20, 1967) *married Clare CEDERBORG; married William Andrew McCOLLIM
Robert Wesley BOWSER (July 6, 1883-June 20, 1959) *married Etta Helena CRYTZER c.1906; married Stella KACHINSKI in 1917
James Asdale BOWSER (November 16, 1884-January 19, 1983) *married Anna CRISPIN on July 3, 1915
Maude S. BOWSER (February 24, 1887-December 10, 1926) *married Harry RILEY New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Florence "Floss" Nell BOWSER (November 24, 1889-June 5, 1972) *married Edward Taylor DOWLING
Harry Edmund BOWSER (December 4, 1891-May 17, 1969) *married Lydia Ann McCOLLIM on June 26, 1919
John William Gray BOWSER (July 16, 1893-May 30, 1960) *married Mary Suzanna VENSEL; married Mary Violet CASTLE
Walter McKinley BOWSER (April 20, 1896-January 26, 1978) *married Luella DICKENSON on August 30, 1922 in Visalia, California; He was a soldier (bayonet instructor) at Camp Lee, Virginia during World War I.
Lillian Bell BOWSER (August 38, 1898-March 5, 1984) *married John E. HENRY on October 10, 1916 in Kern County, California; married Raymond SMITH; married Samuel P. McKENRY
Pedigree 
                             Joseph Dotha BOWSER|
 Jonas BOWSER|
|                           |Rebecca DULL          |
|
|--Ephraim Buffington BOWSER
|
|                            Valentine BOWSER I|
|Margaret BOWSER
                            |Elizabeth FLUKE|
Testimony of James Asdale Bowser, son of Ephraim:
Ephraim was named for Ephraim Buffington, the first person to call after he was born. Buffington was not a relative, but a man of some importance. A brief of the Buffington family can be found in "History of Armstrong County" by Robert Walter Smith, Esq., 1883, p. 589-591. James A. Bowser continued on to say his father's full name as given at birth was actually "Ephraim Buffington Sherden Mervin Bowser". Every man who came to see his mother the day he was born got a share of his name!
Ephraim Bowser was a hard working man who took good care of his family. Before 1909 Samuel A. Gray and his family moved in with them. Sam was rather bossy and not a good worker. Ephraim gathered in supplies for the winter but said there would no be enough for him and Sam's family too, so he left. Ephraim's wife had always been defensive of her relatives. Ephraim lived the rest of his life on a neighbor's farm.
Ephraim bowser was 3 or 4 inches shorter than his son, James Asdale Bowser, who stood 5 foot 9 inches.
According to Ephraim's son, Walter McKinley Bowser, Ephraim died of diabetes.
From: Suellen McCollim: Ephraim is buried at Montgomeryville Baptist Church cemetery in Adrian, Armstrong County, PA. He and his wife, Margaret Gray Bowser, were separated in later years. She moved to California and lived with her son in Bakersfield, where she died. (She lived there with her youngest son, Walter McKinley Bowser "W.K. Bowser".

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