Joseph H. Rowles and Ruth Hickok

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Husband Joseph H. Rowles ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Mar 1834 or 1835 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Harmon F. Rowles (Abt 1804-1892) 1 2
         Mother: Susanna(h) Henry (      -1875) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1861 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 3

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Wife Ruth Hickok ^{2 3}

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           Born:  - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA
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         Father: Abel Hickok (      -1884) 3
         Mother: Margery Bloom (      -1885) 3

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Children

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1 F Melissa Rowles ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M C. L. V. Rowles ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Keturah Bauman (      -      ) 3

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3 M William Lorenzo Rowles ^{3 4}

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           Born: 25 May 1866 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Melissa M. Dunlap (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 10 May 1888 2

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4 F Roxie Rowles ²

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            AKA: Roxy Rowles 3
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           Died: 1892 - Knox Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: [Unk] Dunlop (      -      ) 3

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5 F Susannah "Susie" Rowles ^{3 5}

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         Spouse: Benjamin Barnett (      -      ) 3

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6 M Almond Rowles ³

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            AKA: Alman Rowles 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 M Harmon Rowles ³

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            AKA: Herman Rowles 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 M Aaron Rowles ^{2 3}

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9 M James Rowles ^{2 3}

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10 M Lewis Rowles ^{2 3}

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11 F Harriet Rowles ^{2 3}

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12 F Josephine Rowles ^{2 3}

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph H. Rowles

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In the schools near his childhood home, Joseph H. Rowles received his literary training, and in 1856 located on a farm, comprising fifty acres, which at that time was covered with a heavy growth of timber. He cleared the land, and transformed the place into one of the most highly cultivated tracts in the locality. In 1864, in Lawrence township, he enlisted in Company B, 100th P. V. for one year or during the war, and was assigned to the Army of the James. He participated in the battle of Fort Steadman, and was in front of Petersburg at the time of its surrender. Hostilities having ceased, he was honorably discharged at Harrisburg, July 28, 1865, and returned home.
He was an earnest supporter of the men and measures of the Democratic party, and served as justice of the peace, an office he filled for a quarter of a century or more. He held membership in Lorimer Post, G. A. R.

He first attended school in a log cabin and later attended other schools, for he was so anxious to obtain an education that he went one term after he was twenty-one years of age. He worked hard, sometimes on the farm and at other times in the woods and by cutting in the timber he made enough to enable him to buy his farm, on which he settled after marriage. His first house burned down and he thus lost all the old family papers. For thirty-five years Mr. Rowles served Lawrence Township as a justice of the peace and also was school director. During the Civil War he served seven months in the Federal Army and was fortunate enough to return home entirely unharmed. He was a member of Lawrence Post, G. A. R., Clearfield County.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1629.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 525.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1630.

4 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 525, 760.

5 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 791.