Individual Details

Peter Bowman, a Brethren minister, wrote "Ein Zeugniss von der Taufe" [A Testimony on Baptism] around 1817. He was an elder in the Brethren Church in Rockingham Coutny, Virginia. Peter first settled at Dale Enterprises, near Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1787. Three years later he moved five miles west to Little North Mountain on the War Bonnet Branch. He died in a hunting accident.

Peter Bauman/Bowman was listed as being a descendant of Jacob and Verena Bowman of Washington County, Maryland and of Rockingham County, Virginia by D. H. Zigler in his "History of the Brethren in Virginia" (1908).

Birth	15 Feb 1762	, Berks, PA
Marriage	Abt 1785	Mary Heatwole
Death	2 Jan 1823	Mount Clinton, Rockingham, VA
Alt name		Peter Bowman
Burial		Bowman Family Cemetery, Mount Clinton, , VA

Spouse	Mary Heatwole (1766 - 1833)
Child	Samuel Bowman (1787 - 1853)
Child	Susanna Bowman (1789 - 1858)
Child	John Bowman (1790 - 1834)
Child	Mary Bowman ( - )
Child	Peter Bowman Junior (1794 - 1833)
Child	Jacob Bowman (1797 - 1881)
Child	Martin Bowman ( - )
Child	Elizabeth Bowman (1799 - 1870)

Father	Jacob "Nimrod" Bauman Senior (1722 - 1788)
Mother	Veronica ( - )
Sibling	Christian Bauman (1756 - 1796)
Sibling	Jacob "Dunker Jockel" Bauman Junior (1743 - )
Sibling	John Bowman Senior (1764 - 1836)
Sibling	Henry Bauman ( - )
Sibling	Veronica Bauman ( - )
Sibling	Maria Bauman (1757 - )
Sibling	Martin Bauman (1768 - 1813)

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