Individual Details

Marriage

Jacob and Lydia THOMAS were parents of 2 children: Anna and David.

Re-marriage

Jacob and Lydia WOODS Bowers were parents of 3 children: Mary (Polly), Enos Woods and Sue.

Property

Remembrances of Vinna (Bowers) Helstern, tape-recorded 1989 by Bob Gross
#3 Bowers family Floy was never able to trace the Bowers family back to Europe. There were too many in the Bowers clan that liked the name of Jacob; one census had about a dozen; not able to find a clue as to which one goes beyond Lancaster PA. MSR wrote history of Center Church; Jacob Samuel Bowers was one of 12 deacons in whose homes the congregation met until the church was built. This was my father’s grandfather (or great?). Floy did research in Stark Co.; got location in Osnaburg Twp of the farm that Jacob Samuel sold when he moved to Hancock County. [It was the SW] corner diagonally across from the Center parsonage. Two-story white frame house moved in road re-construction contained a log cabin...
Jacob Bowers family: Floy has found a stone chimney of the house where my grandfather [Enos?] lived. Also notes that indicate that Jacob was elected a minister in the Hickory Grove German Baptist Brethren Church... and we have been told that for some years he preached in German. My father [Harvey] doesn’t know any German [nor] his father [Enos]. The German disappeared completely [when] they moved into a community that was not German... had to use English, so the language was totally lost to us...."

Ordination

Remembrances of Vinna (Bowers) Helstern, tape-recorded 1989 by Bob Gross
Jacob Bowers family: "Floy has found a stone chimney of the house where my grandfather [Enos?] lived. Also notes that indicate that Jacob was elected a minister in the Hickory Grove German Baptist Brethren Church... and we have been told that for some years he preached in German. My father [Harvey] doesn't know any German [nor] his father [Enos]. The German disappeared completely [when] they moved into a community that was not German... had to use English, so the language was totally lost to us...."