ID: I206
Name: Jonas N. Mowrer
Sex: M
Birth: 1864 in Chester Twp., Wayne Co. OH
Death: 17 MAR 1932 in Congress Twp., Wayne Co., OH
Burial: 1932 Overton Church of God Cemetery, Wayne Co., OH
Note: From the Wooster Daily Record, 17 Mar. 1932: Jonas N. Mowrer Dies at Congress Thursday Jonas N. Mowrer, aged 77 years, 10 months and 21 days, died at 7 a.m. Thursday at the home of his son, Charles Mowrer, north of Congress. The body was brought to Wooster and taken to the Bevington & McCullough Funeral Home, where it may be viewed Friday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. Funeral services will be held from the Bevington & McCullough Funeral Home Saturday at 2 p.m., and burial will take place in Overton cemetery. The surviving children are Mrs. Walter Johnson, Charles Mowrer, Mrs. Lloyd Herman and Ora Mowrer, West Salem, and Mrs. Frank Hershberger, and Ira Mowrer, Wooster.
(Note: His age at death given in the above obituary would make him born in 1854, which is incorrect. Census and tombstone data support a birth year of 1864.)
Sources: 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 79 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 351 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Chester Twp., Wayne Co., OH -- Family 216 Wayne Co. probate court index, 1812-1917, p. 228 (Jonas Mowrer) Wayne Co. probate court index, 1918-1934 (Jonas Mowrer) Wayne Co. guardianship abstracts, 1852-1900, p. 67 (Jonas Mowrer) Smith (1991), p. 171 Strock and Strock (1997), pp. 180, 402 Wayne Co. Burials, p. 100 Charles E. Mowrer obit., DR, 26 Jul. 1971 Esther Mowrer obit., DR, 11 Mar. 1940 Jonas N. Mowrer obit., DR, 17 Mar. 1932 Mowrer (1982) Wayne Co. Probate Admin. #3139 (Jonas Mowrer) Wayne Co. Probate Guard. #3167 (Jonas Mowrer) Wayne Co. Probate Admin. #20206 (Jonas N. Mowrer)
Father: Jonas Mowrer b: ABT. DEC 1810 in Pennsylvania
Mother: Barbara Fetterman b: ABT. 16 JUL 1820 in Pennsylvania
Marriage 1
Esther Howman b: 1868 in Wayne Co., OH
- Married:
19 JUN 1887
in Wayne Co., OH
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