Individual Details
Samuel Barker BOWLBY
(27 NOV 1804 - 18 NOV 1866)
From the Illinois census it can be determined that Samuel and Abigail spent at least fourteen years of their married life in Ohio before moving on to Illinois, and that they came to Illinois less than three years before 1860. The 1860 census for Jackson Co., IL., Twp. 8, Range 2 West gives: Samuel BOWLBY, 48, m., N. J.; Abigal, 48, f., N. J.; Samuel, 17, m., OH; Elisha, 13, m., OH; Thomas 3, m., OH. Mrs. Kelly says that Samuel and Abigail owned a farm near Harrison's mines near Murphysboro, IL, that they were buried in Halladay Cem. there. She also gives the names of their twelve children. Evidently the older children had left home before the 1860 census.
The 1860 census for Somerset Twp., Jackson Co., IL. shows the following:
781
BOWLBY, Samuel
56 Farmer NJ
Abigail 48 NJ
Samuel 17 OH
Elisha 13 OH
Lavanda 11 OH
Martha 9 OH
William 7 OH
Thomas 3 OH
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Apparently made a mistake in typing the age for Samuel.
Events
| Birth | 27 NOV 1804 | Sussex Co., NJ | |||
| Marriage | ABT 1830 | Warren Co., OH - Abigail BOWLBY |  |  | |
| Occupation | 1860 | farmer - Somerset Twp., Jackson Co., IL | | ||
| Death | 18 NOV 1866 | ||||
| Burial | Halladay Cem., Murphysboro, Jackson Co., IL |
Families
| Spouse | Abigail BOWLBY (1812 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth BOWLBY ( - ) |
| Child | Nancy BOWLBY (1831 - ) |
| Child | Johanna BOWLBY (1836 - 1906) |
| Child | Peter BOWLBY (1840 - ) |
| Child | Jemima BOWLBY (1841 - ) |
| Child | Samuel BOWLBY (1843 - ) |
| Child | Mary Ann BOWLBY (1843 - ) |
| Child | Elisha P. BOWLBY (1847 - ) |
| Child | Lavanda Jane BOWLBY (1849 - ) |
| Child | Martha BOWLBY (1851 - ) |
| Child | William D. BOWLBY (1853 - 1911) |
| Child | Thomas R. BOWLBY (1857 - 1919) |
| Father | Samuel Barker BOWLBY (1782 - 1846) |
| Mother | Hulda MESSENE/MESZENE (1784 - 1844) |
| Sibling | John BOWLBY (1802 - 1891) |
| Sibling | Mary Ann BOWLBY (1806 - 1888) |
| Sibling | Benjamin BOWLBY (1808 - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph BOWLBY (1808 - ) |
| Sibling | James H. BOWLBY (1814 - 1892) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth BOWLBY (1818 - ) |
| Sibling | Peter G. BOWLBY (1819 - 1869) |
| Sibling | Nancy Ann BOWLBY (1814 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Henry Clay BOWLBY (1824 - 1892) |
| Sibling | Jemina/Jamina BOWLBY (1827 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah BOWLBY (1832 - 1864) |
Notes
Marriage
Samuel married his second cousin, Abigail BOWLBY (10). Samuel's grandfather and Abigail's father were brothers. Her family moved in 1828 to Fayette Co., PA; his family had settled in Somerset, an adjoining county, before 1820. Mrs. Cordelia KELLY says that they were married in Bethney, OH, which is no longer on the map. It was probably a settlement in Warren Co.
Endnotes
1. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A., Bowlby Families in England and America (Higginson Book Company, 1993
2. Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M.A., BOWLBY Families in England and America (Unpublished), Page 86.
3. Claude Swain