Michael BOWYER
(1823-1889)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Jerusha Lucy SCRIVNER

Michael BOWYER 2

  • Born: 1823, Illinois 2
  • Marriage: Jerusha Lucy SCRIVNER on 15 Jun 1848 in Franklin County, Illinois 1
  • Died: 29 Jun 1889 2
  • Buried: Sugar Camp Cemetery, Jefferson County, Illinois 2

bullet   Another name for Michael was Michael BOYER.

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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census: 1850, Franklin County, Illinois. 3

Dwelling 101, Family 104
Michael Bowyer, age 26, male, farmer, born in Illinois
Lucy Bowyer, age 21, female, born in Tennessee
Harriet Bowyer, age 1, female, born in Illinois
Moses Scrivner, age 75, male, farmer, born in North Carolina

2. Census: 1860, Franklin County, Illinois. 4

Township 5 S, Range 4 E, Webbs Prairie P. O.
Dwelling 494, Family 494
Michael Boyer, age 38, male, farmer, $500 real property, $280 personal property, born in Illinois
Jerusha Boyer, age 28, female, house keeping, born in Tennessee, cannot read or write
William Boyer, age 7, male, born in Illinois, attended school
Eliza Boyer, age 4, female, born in Illinois
Julia Boyer, age 2, female, born in Illinois
Margaret Hanestraw(?), age 13, female, born in Illinois, attended school

3. Census: 1880, Franklin County, Illinois. 5

Dwelling 408, Family 425, Northern Township
Boyer, Michael, white, male, age 55, married, farmer, born in Illinois, father and mother born in Illinois
Boyer, Jerusha, white, female, age 50, wife, married, keeping house, cannot read or write, born in Tennessee, father and mother born in North Carolina
Boyer, Francis M, white, male, age 19, son, single, attended school, born in Illinois, father born in Illinois, mother born in Tennessee
Boyer, Wilford, white, male, age 15, son, single, attended school, born in Illinois, father born in Illinois, mother born in Tennessee
Boyer, Bluford, white, male, age 13, son, single, disabled, attended school, born in Illinois, father born in Illinois, mother born in Tennessee
Bowyer, Eliza, white, female, age 23, daughter, single, born in Illinois, father born in Illinois, mother born in Tennessee
McPherson, Mattie E, white, female, age 4, granddaughter, single, born in Illinois, father born in Pennsylvania, mother born in Illinois

[Son, William H. Boyer, appears as the head of household for Dwelling 409, Family 426.]


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Michael married Jerusha Lucy SCRIVNER, daughter of Moses SCRIVNER and Nancy HENLEY, on 15 Jun 1848 in Franklin County, Illinois.2 (Jerusha Lucy SCRIVNER was born in 1832 in Stewart County, Tennessee,2 died in 1884 in Franklin County, Illinois 2 and was buried in Sugar Camp Cemetery, Jefferson County, Illinois 2.)


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Sources


1 Doris Scrivner Collier, The Descendants of Benjamin Scrivner (Published by Doris Scrivner Collier, Florissant, Missouri, 1990), Page 153. As of 2005, Doris' e-mail address was dcllr@msn.com and her postal address was 177 Sanctuary Dr., Dardene Prairie, MO 63368.

2 Doris Scrivner Collier, The Descendants of Benjamin Scrivner (Published by Doris Scrivner Collier, Florissant, Missouri, 1990), Page 153.

3 1850 Census, Franklin County, Illinois, Roll M432_106, Page 8 (Ancestry.com Image 15 of 136).

4 1860 Census, Franklin County, Illinois, Roll M653_177, Page 593 (Ancestry.com Image 247 of 249).

5 1880 Census, Franklin County, Illinois, Roll T9_207, Page 49 (Ancestry.com Image 51 of 61).


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