Individual Details
Charles Christopher Bowman
(4 Sep 1861 - 4 Feb 1906)
"Genealogy of a Bowman Family," by Byron Whitener Bowman, 1956:
Biography of Charles Christopher Bowman
He was born on September 4, 1861, in Cape Girardeau County, near Oak Ridge,
Missouri. He was the third child of Benjamin Lee and Eliza Jane Bowman.
Charles Christopher, after finishing the public schools and attending Will
Mayfield College at Marble Hill, Mo., and the State Normal School at Cape
Girardeau, decided to take a course in telegraphy and entered the service of
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad Co., (now the Missouri
Pacific Railroad) as agent and telegraph operator, serving for many years,
principally at Marquand, Missouri, where he lived for many years. Here he
married Mrs. Martha Emeline Whitener (Bedford), a young widow with one child,
Effie Leah Bedford. While active in church work, he was licensed to preach
after conducting services in nearby churches and missions, yet he never fully
entered the work of the ministry.
He was transferred by agreement to the Dexter, Missouri, station on September
1, 1896, having agreed with the agent at Dexter, Missouri, Mike Owens, to make
the change, which was agreeable to the railroad company. But after a few years
as agent at Dexter, he resigned from railroad work to become a stockholder and
secretary of the newly organized Dexter Milling Co., a concern in which his
brother, William Chesley Bowman of Sikeston, Mo., also became a stockholder and
official. He was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a deacon in the first
Baptist Church of Dexter, Mo., a member of the city's Board of Education, and a
member of many civic and fraternal organizations. He lived an exemplary life.
He passed away in the Mayfield Sanitarium in St. Louis, Mo., on February 4,
1906, and was buried in the Dexter, Mo., Cemetery, where his wife is also
buried.
by his son, Byron Whitener Bowman
Biography of Charles Christopher Bowman
He was born on September 4, 1861, in Cape Girardeau County, near Oak Ridge,
Missouri. He was the third child of Benjamin Lee and Eliza Jane Bowman.
Charles Christopher, after finishing the public schools and attending Will
Mayfield College at Marble Hill, Mo., and the State Normal School at Cape
Girardeau, decided to take a course in telegraphy and entered the service of
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad Co., (now the Missouri
Pacific Railroad) as agent and telegraph operator, serving for many years,
principally at Marquand, Missouri, where he lived for many years. Here he
married Mrs. Martha Emeline Whitener (Bedford), a young widow with one child,
Effie Leah Bedford. While active in church work, he was licensed to preach
after conducting services in nearby churches and missions, yet he never fully
entered the work of the ministry.
He was transferred by agreement to the Dexter, Missouri, station on September
1, 1896, having agreed with the agent at Dexter, Missouri, Mike Owens, to make
the change, which was agreeable to the railroad company. But after a few years
as agent at Dexter, he resigned from railroad work to become a stockholder and
secretary of the newly organized Dexter Milling Co., a concern in which his
brother, William Chesley Bowman of Sikeston, Mo., also became a stockholder and
official. He was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a deacon in the first
Baptist Church of Dexter, Mo., a member of the city's Board of Education, and a
member of many civic and fraternal organizations. He lived an exemplary life.
He passed away in the Mayfield Sanitarium in St. Louis, Mo., on February 4,
1906, and was buried in the Dexter, Mo., Cemetery, where his wife is also
buried.
by his son, Byron Whitener Bowman
Events
| Birth | 4 Sep 1861 | Oak Ridge, Cape Girardeau, MO | |||
| Marriage | 23 Oct 1883 | Martha Emeline Whitener Bedford | |||
| Death | 4 Feb 1906 | Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO | |||
| Burial | Dexter, Stoddard, MO |
Families
| Spouse | Martha Emeline Whitener Bedford (1853 - 1935) |
| Father | Benjamin Leroy "Lee" Bowman (1837 - 1920) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Jane Ford (1840 - 1930) |
| Sibling | Amy Sophia Bowman (1857 - 1899) |
| Sibling | William Chesley Bowman (1859 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Mary Lee Bowman (1863 - ) |
| Sibling | Nettie Bowman (1866 - 1948) |
| Sibling | Samuel Lee Bowman (1868 - 1949) |
| Sibling | James Reed Bowman (1870 - 1961) |
| Sibling | Thomas Ford Bowman (1872 - 1935) |
| Sibling | Lou Ella Bowman (1875 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Joseph Maple Bowman (1877 - 1952) |
| Sibling | Wilbur Talley Bowman (1878 - 1940) |
| Sibling | Anna Bowman (1880 - 1955) |
| Sibling | Franklin Bowman (1884 - ) |