Person:Mary Clemens (5)

Obituary

Mrs. Mary Bowman, whose death was announced yesterday morning was born in Bucks County, Pa., March 6, 1815. Her maiden name was Clemens, whose family emigrated to Waterloo County, Ontario, when she was twelve years old, where quite a settlement of Pennsylvanians was formed, including the Bowmans who had emigrated from Berks County, Pa. a few years earlier; and a few years later Mary Clemens became the wife of Rev. B. B. Clemens [Bowman], the youngest of a large family. He died in 1872. Mrs. Bowman was the mother of eleven children, five of whom survive her. She came to the coast in 1883, spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Wolfe, whose husband was the pioneer Congregational minister of Whatcom, and built the church on F street. Amos Bowman, the founder of Anacortes, was her son. Her increasing infirmities had rendered her totally helpless for a year and nine months before death came to her relief, when she calmly and peacefully went to sleep in the firm confidence and hope of blissful immortality. Funeral services at the Congregational church on Tuesday, August 27, at 2 p.m. (From The Daily Reveille, August 25, 1901)

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