Family:Casper Bowers and Sarah Scheidler (1)

Research Notes

• Sarah was the widow of Christopher/Christian Weaver.² The children of that marriage are living with Sarah and her 2nd husband, Casper Bowers, in the 1850 census.

1.   Household of Casper Bowers, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432).

   Year: 1850; Census Place: Jackson, Wayne, Indiana; Roll: M432_180; Page: 40A; Image: 87.
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   Casper Bowers 41 Sarah Bowers 45 John Bowers 13 Francis Bowers 11 David Bowers 9 Sarah Bowers 7 Magdalen Bowers 5 Casper Bowers 4 Joseph Bowers 1 Lavina Weaver 20 Cornelius Weaver 19
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   [Note: Not 100% sure which of the Bower children are from these parents. - cos1776 23 Aug 2012]

2.   Sarah Shidler [sic] and Casper Bowens [sic], in History of Henry County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens; also a condensed history of Indiana. (Chicago [Illinois]: Inter-State Pub. Co., 1884).

   Cornelius C. Weaver ... The father [of Cornelius Weaver] died before our subject's birth, and his mother soon after came to Indiana, and purchased eighty acres of land in Jackson Township, Wayne County. She was a woman of rare energy and business ability, and by the time her sons were old enough to assist her had her farm well cultivated. She subsequently married Casper Bowen [Bowers], by whom she had seven children. She died in 1880, aged seventy-three years. ...
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   [see person page for Cornelius Weaver for complete passage]