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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Carl Robert Bowen: Birth: 13 FEB 1918 in Lacrosse, Hancock County, Illinois. Death: 13 FEB 1918 in Lacrosse, Hancock County, Illinois

  2. James Harold Bowen: Birth: 14 JUN 1919 in Pilot Grove Township, Hancock County, Illinois. Death: 24 MAY 1974 in University Hospital, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa

  3. Roy Junior Bowen: Birth: 6 DEC 1921 in Blandinsville, McDonough County, Illinois. Death: 21 NOV 1993 in Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois

  4. Charles Keith Bowen: Birth: 15 NOV 1924 in Hire Township, McDonough County, Illinois. Death: 18 JUL 1992 in La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois


Sources
1. Title:   Biographical Review of Hancock County, Illinois, Hobart Publishing Co., 1907
Page:   page 714
2. Title:   Marriage License
3. Title:   1900 Census, Illinois, McDonough County
Page:   115a
4. Title:   Obituary
5. Title:   Funeral Program
6. Title:   Death Certificate, State of Illinois
7. Title:   Laharper, 10-5-1917
Page:   1, col. 3
8. Title:   1920 Census, Illinois, Hancock County
Page:   187
9. Title:   1930 Census, Illinois, McDonough County
Page:   83
10. Title:   La Harpe Historical and Genealogical Society's Collection of Newspaper Clippings Re: Obituaries
11. Title:   Personal communication from Emogine Carter

Notes
a. Note:   Prior to his marriage, Roy farmed with his brother, Guy Franklin Bowen, near Colchester, McDonough County, Illinois. When he married Hattie White, October 1, 1917, he and Hattie moved to a farm in Hire Township, McDonough County, Illinois. From there, he moved to Pilot Grove Township in Hancock County, where the first two children were born. Then he moved back to Hire Township where the last two children were born. Sometime after that, he moved back to Pilot Grove Township, living one mile south and a half mile west of the tiny village of LaCrosse. That is in Section 12 of Pilot Grove Township. The farm was located in an area known locally as Hungry Hill. He lived there until his death in 1943.
  His Registration Card for WWI stated that he had light blue eyes and light colored hair.


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