Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1918 — OBITUARY OF MRS. MARY ANN BOWERS. [ARTICLE]

O B I TUA R Y OF MRS. MARY ANN BOWERS.

Mary Ann Epler was born Sept. 4, 1 849, in Marion county, Indiana, near where the city of Indianapolis now stands, and departed this life Sept. 8, L9lB, aged 69 years and four days. She was one of five children, none suprviving her, born to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Epler*, both natives of ’ennsylvania. At the age of ( one year her father removed from Indiana to Pennsylvania, where she resided until her twenty-second-year, when she came back to Peru, Indiana, ffiaking her home there among relatives until her narriage to Edward Lewis Bowers, i’eb. 20, 1877, when she moved with her husband on a farm three miles southeast of Mt. Ayr, and since that time has passed her life on different farms in the vicinity of Mt. Ayr and

Rensselaer. To this union was born three chriaren, one of them, Frank, dying Nov. 23, 1902, the remaining -two being Mrs. Charles Sommers, of near Mt. Ayr, with whom she resided, rtnd Mrs. Bruce Stevens, of Morocco. This couple was permitted to live in happy wedlock for mole than 29 years, the husband having passed away July 12, 1906.

She leaves to mour her death her two daughters, four step-children, Mrs. George Buck, of Goodland; Charles Bowers, of near Rensselaer; William Bowers, of Florida, and Sam Bowers, of Ohio, and a host of fri The S (ieceased was a member of the United Brethren church for a number of years until on the Ibth of March, 1913, she changed her membership to the Methodist church in Rensselaer, in which faith she died. She was a woman of strong personality, was deeply interested in her home, family, church and community and had always lived a Christian life. The funeral was held at the Mt. Ayr M. E. ehurch Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 2 o’clock, and burial took place m the Westo ncemetery at Rensselaer.