History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . gingssave such portables as they conveniently could pack into their wagons as anucleus f(jr the housekeeping that would be necessary in their new homes,drove out of Pennsylvania, through Ohio and through Indiana into Illinois,in which latter state they bought farms near each other in Schuyler countyand established new homes in what was then ])ractically pioneer country, andthere John Bowser and his wife and Jonathan Martin and his wife spenttheir last days, having established comfortable homes in the midst of theirbroad
History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . gingssave such portables as they conveniently could pack into their wagons as anucleus f(jr the housekeeping that would be necessary in their new homes,drove out of Pennsylvania, through Ohio and through Indiana into Illinois,in which latter state they bought farms near each other in Schuyler countyand established new homes in what was then ])ractically pioneer country, andthere John Bowser and his wife and Jonathan Martin and his wife spenttheir last days, having established comfortable homes in the midst of theirbroad acres in which their declining years were passed. When the Inig jnurncy from Pennsylvania was made there were twoyouthful members of the party who, even then were sweethearts. George , then seventeen years of age, and Jane Martin, slightly the ladsjunior. She, too, had l)een born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, daugh-ter of Jonathan and Lydia (Sylvus) Martin, both also natives of Pennsyl-vania and farmers, who left their home a few miles north of Kittanning,. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE R. BOWSER. RENO COUNTY, KANSAS. l6l along- the Allegheny river, together with the P>owsers, to make their homein Illinois, in which latter state they spent the rest of their lives, .Mrs. Mar-tin, who was horn in 1820, dying in 1865; l^^i husband, wdio w^as born in1818, snr\iving- until 1904. George R. Bowser and Jane Martin grew tomaturity on their neighboring- farms in Illinois and on March 11, 1861, weremarried. After his marriage, George R. Bowser rented farm lands in Illi-nois and li\-ed there as a tenant farmer until 1868, by which time rents hadbecome so high that he and his wife decided to push on farther West, seekingcheaper land, packing their necessary belongings in a covered wagon theyand the two or three small children by which their union then had beenblessed, moved over into Missouri, where the family made a home on rentedland for eight vears, at the end of which time thev ca
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