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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1888

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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(Page 649 - Brief Personals)

BOWERS, T. H., Liberty, Liberty p.o., a pioneer of Henry county, was born
in Licking county, April 26, 1822, and was a son of George and Catharine
(Gantz) Bowers.  Catharine was born at Gettysburgh, Pa., in 1805 and her
husband, George, in Homer, Cortland county, N.Y., in 1795.  They were
married in Licking county, O., in 1822, and settled in Liberty, in 1837.
They had a family of eleven children, eight of whom are now living: Titan
H., George, jr., David, Samuel, Sarah, Margaret, Orpha and Jane.  George,
sr., died February 9, 1880.  T.H. Bowers was married September 15, 1849,
to Mary Stokesbery, who was born in Ohio, January 28, 1827.  They have six
children living: George W., born in 1852; Lozetta, born in 1854; Hattie,
born in 1857; Artimelia, born in 1861; Delia, born in 1861, fiitted for
teaching and is now engaged in that occupation; and Walter, born in 1869.
T.H. Bowers has been supervisor for several terms and is a general farmer
by occupation.  He was engaged in teaching in early life, and purchased
his homestead of 160 acres, in 1865.  His wife, Mary, was a daughter of
Joshua and Elizabeth Stokesbury, of Virginia, who settled in Licking
county, O., at an early day.

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**NOTE** Stokesbery is also spelled as Stokesbury in this biography.  The
word "fiitted" is the actual spelling from the book.