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I am researching the ancestors of Randy and Kent Mowrer in OH, PA, and MD. See the LIST OF SOURCES link at my home page for an explanation of sources cited in the notes. Please credit me and the sources I provide if you use this information.

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  • ID: I056
  • Name: Thomas Grover Mowrer
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 18 MAY 1885 in Chester Twp., Wayne Co. OH
  • Death: 24 FEB 1959 in Wooster, Wayne Co., OH
  • Burial: 1959
  • Note:
    From the Wooster Daily Record, 25 Feb. 1959:
    T.G. Mowrer, Overton Area
    Thomas Grover Mowrer, 73, Wayne Twp. farmer, died Tuesday afternoon in Community Hospital, where he had been since Monday afternoon. He had been in ill health for five years.
    He was born in Chester Twp. May 18, 1885, to Benjamin and Magdalena Matti Mowrer. He spent all his life in the Overton community.
    He is survived by his wife, Meda Wilson Mowrer; four sons, Eldon, Donald, and Roger of Wooster, and Norman at home; a daughter, Mrs. John Bahl of RD 1; two brothers William and Harry of RD 6; three sisters, Mrs. Robert Condry of Burbank, Mrs. Olie Conn of RD 6, and Mrs. Harry Ogden of West Salem; and six grandchildren.
    He was preceded in death by two brothers.
    Services will be held on Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the McIntire Funeral Home with the Rev. Homer Denny of Bethel Church of God officiating.
    Friends will be received 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Overton Cemetery.

    Sources:
    1900 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 301
    1910 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 207
    1920 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 24
    1930 U.S. Federal Census, Wayne Twp., Wayne Co., OH--Family 343
    Wayne Co. Burials (1975), p. 100
    Madgalena Mowrer obit., DR, 18 Apr. 1932
    Samuel Edward Mowrer obit., DR, 5 Apr. 1947
    Thomas Grover Mowrer obit., DR, 25 Feb. 1959
    Minnie Ogden obit., DR, 12 Oct. 1976
    Smith (1991), p. 171
    Mowrer (1982)
    Wayne Co. Probate Admin. #15246 (Benjamin Mowrer)




    Father: Benjamin Franklin Mowrer b: 7 DEC 1855 in Chester Twp., Wayne Co. OH
    Mother: Magdalena Matty b: 1852 in Switzerland

    Marriage 1 Meda F. Wilson b: 13 SEP 1890

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