Individual Details

This family spelled BOWLBY with an "S", thus making it BOWLSBY.
According to his biography in the Neligh Leader in Antelope Co., NE, he was born 8 NOV 1815, Brownsville, Fayette Co., PA; however, according to the 1850 census of Gratiot, WI, he was born around 1829 in Ohio. According to his father's biography in the Neligh Leader, Manuel was the third and last child of this family born in Pennsylvania before moving to Newark, OH. Joseph's biography states that his wife died in Lafayette Co., WI in 1833 and that he left his younger children in the care of his son, Manuel; yet, the 1850 census shows Lettice BOWLSBY living there at Gratiot with several children, Manuel being the eldest.
From 1839 to 1864 Manuel rafted lumber on Wisconsin and Black Hawk rivers down as far as St. Louis. This employment became detrimental to his health, so, in 1869, the family traveled by wagon to Tama, NE. In 1871 he filed on government land in Madison Co., NE. On 7 NOV 1879 he made final proof of homestead in Antelope County. In 1900 Manuel left Antelope and removed to Pearl, Uinta Co., WY where he is reported to have died shortly before 1902 at the age of 86 years, seven months and fifteen days, but according to the 1850 census report he must have been considerably younger.

Birth	8 NOV 1815	Brownsville, Fayette Co., PA
Marriage	4 SEP 1856	Gratiot, Lafayette Co., WI - Lydia Ann THOMPSON
Married by		Justice of the Peace Samuel COLE - Lydia Ann THOMPSON
Death	22 JUN 1902	Pearl, Unita Co., WY

Spouse	Lydia Ann THOMPSON (1834 - 1906)
Child	BOWLSBY (1855 - )
Child	Malinda/Melinda Lettice BOWLSBY (1857 - 1895)
Child	Joseph Wesley BOWLSBY (1859 - 1883)
Child	Emmanuel Parkhill "Manuel" BOWLSBY (1860 - 1867)
Child	Adeline Luella "Ella Day" BOWLSBY (1862 - 1900)
Child	Lydia Alzina BOWLSBY (1865 - 1867)
Child	Mary Agnes BOWLSBY (1868 - 1869)
Child	John Franklin BOWLSBY (1870 - 1942)
Child	William Crandell/Crandall BOWLSBY (1871 - 1954)
Child	Emma Rachel BOWLSBY (1874 - 1937)
Child	Perry Theodore BOWLSBY (1877 - 1953)
Child	Philander DeForest BOWLSBY (1880 - 1941)
Child	Ana BOWLSBY (1883 - 1883)

Father	Joseph Insley BOWLSBY (1770 - 1877)
Mother	Lettice Parkhill "Letty" BLAIR (1801 - 1851)
Sibling	John K. BOWLBY (1821 - 1890)
Sibling	Samuel BOWLSBY/BOWLBY (1826 - 1894)
Sibling	Sophia M. BOWLBY (1830 - )
Sibling	James H. BOWLSBY (1833 - 1864)
Sibling	Serepta M. BOWLSBY (1835 - 1862)
Sibling	Adaline/Adeline BOWLSBY (1837 - 1925)
Sibling	Joseph BOWLSBY (1842 - )