John Allen Himes and Sophia Bowersox

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Husband John Allen Himes ^{1 2}

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           Born: 31 Aug 1841 - Redbank Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Himes (Abt 1813-Aft 1898) 1 2 3
         Mother: Abigail Ann "Abbie" Space (Abt 1819-1893) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1866 1

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Wife Sophia Bowersox ¹

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         Father: Paul Bowersox (      -Bef 1898) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -Bef 1898) 1

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Himes ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Miller (      -      ) 1

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2 M Joseph Paul Himes ¹

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3 F Sarah Etta Himes ¹

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         Spouse: Thomas Miller (      -      ) 1

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4 F Clarissa E. Himes ¹

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         Spouse: S. M. Myers (      -      ) 1

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5 F Hattie Keziah Himes ¹

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6 F Mary Huldah Himes ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Allen Himes

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He was reared to hard work on the home farm in Red Bank township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and pursued his studies in the local schools. In 1866 he located on his own farm of eighty acres, which was improved with a good residence and substantial outbuildings, and to the operation of his land he thereafter devoted his attention.
Mr. Himes enlisted in the Union army on July 4, 1861, in the 62nd P. V. I., at New Bethlehem. He served under Capt. Thomas Kerr, and Col. Samuel W. Black, and was first stationed on boats at Pittsburgh, after which he was at Harrisburg for a time. He then went to Washington, D. C., and from Arlington Heights proceeded to Alexandria, Virginia. After a time spent in camp at Betty Black, he participated in the siege of Yorktown, was in the Peninsular campaign, the engagement at Antietam, the second battle of Bull Run, and the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Mine Explosion and Hatcher's Run. He received two slight wounds, one on the head and the other in the hand, and for six weeks was confined in the hospital at Camp Lookout, Maryland, by a wound in the thigh received at Hatcher's Run. When the war was over, he was honorably discharged August 7, 1865, and returned home.
In his political affiliations Mr. Himes was a Republican, and, socially, he was a member of Captain Core Post, G. A. R., while religiously he belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1622.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 610.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 705.