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Book -- Bowlby's Throughout the Midwest, compiled by Raymond Edwin Bowlby, B.A., M. A., 1979 [Contents cannot be typed here due to copyright.]  Is available at Cornerstone Genealogical Society, Waynesburg, PA 15370.  Page 36+ has Bowlby's of Dunkard Twp., Greene Co., PA and Monongalia Co., WVA.

 

1899

 

BOWLBY

Greene County, PA Marriage  Docket Book __, p. 78, No. 2828: [excerpt of information]

Spencer M. Bowlby, age 27, farmer, Wiley, PA, not married previously

son of James and Susanna Bowlby

Rebecca M. Williamson, age 27, no occupation, Davistown, PA, not married previously

daughter of William and Rebecca Williamson

no relationship to each other, and both "White"

no guardians

Consent of parents:  [not applicable, had line through on both]

Clerk of Orphans Court, Waynesburg: B. N. Freeland

Issued: May 9, 1899

Duplicate of Marriage License - No. 2828

Same Clerk; Issued March 9, 1899

[Please Note: discrepancy of date -- May in one, March in the duplicate.]

B. F. Stone, Justice of the Peace

Date: May 13, 1899 at Dunkard Twp., Greene Co. PA united in marriage

Certificate returned: May 20, 1899

 

WILL of Sussannah [sic] Bowlby, Book 18, pp. 341-343, No. 10326, Greene Co., PA, Filed July 11, 1928 (Summary):

Daughter, Hellen [sic] S. Boyles, $300.00 and bed/steads
Daughter, Elizabeth S. Cowell, $300.00 and feather bed
Daughter, Arlissa Jane Everly, $50.00 and large rocker
Daughter, Malinda Keenan, $25.00 
Daughter, Martha Ellen Moreley, $50.00
Son, Spencer M. Bowlby, $50.00 (the note she holds against him)
Son, Jesse Lee Bowlby, $50.00 (the note she holds against him)
Son, John W. Bowlby, $25.00 and stand he gave me as birthday present, and bed and bedding (in tiny type below: "$100 changed to $25")
Granddaughter, Ona Everly, feather bed; Granddaughter Sussanna Bowlby, feather bed (bed meaning tick)

Signed by her mark: May 9, 1926

Witness: F. S. Miller, Helen S. Boyles, Duff Pride

Executor of Estate: Spencer M. Bowlby

Signatures of each child at end, dated May 3, 1929, stating they received their bequeaths from Spencer M. Bowlby, Executor

Receipt of John W. Bowlby is recorded in Deed Book Vol. 340 page 283 (?)

 

WILL of Mahala LONG, Book 18, pp. 343+, No. 10327, Greene Co., PA, Filed July 16, 1928 (Only top was copied because it was on same page as Bowlby's Will.... Summary):  residence at Vine St., at corner of Strawberry Alley and Vine St., Carmichaels, Greene Co., PA

Daughter, Inez Long - (basically everything in house and the Vine St propety

[Rest is cut off; not Xeroxed.




 

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