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 | |