At last Saturdays meeting, John Colletta talked about using many sources to identify your people. Or what you think could possibly be your people.
I am back to the Bowser/Bauser side of the family. I had searched a few months to find grand mother Mary Stephens Sperl parents. First I found Robert Stephens, her father. I found him by visiting UNION DALE CEMETERY because Chuck said his father went there to decorate "A civil War Soldiers Grave” That Civil War Soldier proved to be Chucks great grandfather and Mary's father.
This led me to the 1900 Allegheny City census and I found Robert and the children along with his wife Olive. Robert was 25 years older than Olive. After brain storming and help from Aunt Edna, who is 85, I found her buried in Salem OH. She had remarried, her name is now Olive Rauhut.
On Olives death certificate it listed her father as “Jacob” I have had a futile search for Jacob and Olive Bowser. Until listening to John Colletta lecture. Back to re-read my papers, I know I should have done that. What I missed was Olives mothers name which was Mary….. He said to search under siblings etc. My etc proved to be mother Mary and Olive and I have a viable candidate in Kittanning in Armstrong County PA. Which is up the Allegheny River from the city of Pittsburgh, where Robert and Olive lived.
Olive was born in 1874 and in the 1880 census they are living with the father Felix and quite a few children. Off to check the Civil War records and what do I find but an enlistment in the 139th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry, and listed is Jacob F Bowser and this regiment has enlistees from Kittanning and Pittsburgh.
My theory is this is a likely candidate for my Jacob Bowser. I have contacted the Armstrong Genealogical Society and a short trip is due to search through those records, Good thing is it is only a 30 minute drive.
What amazes me is that ALL of the people I search for in the USA are in Western PA. They never moved far.
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