Husband Joshua Crawford Bowser 1 2
AKA: Josiah Crawford Bowser 3
Born: 1846 - near Walk Chalk, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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Father: Abraham Bowser (1802/1803-1852/1853) 4 5
Mother: Mary Ann Stevens (1805-1874) 3 5 6
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Wife Kiziah Bowser 1 7
AKA: Keziah Bowser 3
Born: 1 Dec 1841 or 1842 8
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Father: Jacob Bowser (1805-1883) 9 10
Mother: Mary Moore (1806-1883) 10
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1 M Ulysses Selby Bowser 11
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Spouse: Annie Lordel ( - ) 11
Spouse: May Callen ( - ) 11
2 M George B. Bowser 12
Born: 22 Mar 1868 11
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Spouse: Jennie McIntosh (1880- ) 12
3 F Maud B. Bowser 11
Born: 18 May 1870 11
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Spouse: William Harvey Bowser (1865-1900/1920) 13
General Notes: Husband - Joshua Crawford Bowser
He was a musician and served throughout the Civil war, being a member of Company D, 103d Pennsylvania Regiment.
He enlisted at the beginning of the Civil War, at the age of 13, and served to the end as a drummer. He re-enlisted at the close of the war and was stationed first at Sacketts Harbor, New York, and later at Columbus, Ohio.
His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until his fourteenth year, when he slipped to the recruiting station at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and offered himself to his country. His widowed mother brought him home. That night the young would-be soldier crept out of the window and started for Kittanning. After following the company to the South he was accepted as a real soldier and enrolled with Co. D, 103d Regt., Penna. Vol., to serve three years; musician, August 30, 1862; discharged at Pittsburgh, June 2, 1865. In subsequent years he had an aversion to talk "war," but one experience he dared to tell\emdash that when he was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison he weighed 180 pounds, and weighed 80 when he got out, and was two years in the invalid corps as a consequence.