Bowman, Emanuel 1841 - 1895

BOWMAN, AULTMAN, ANDRESEN

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/30/2022 at 10:31:50

Elkader Register, Fri., 24 May 1895.

To his home in Osterdock, Iowa, Thursday evening, May 16, 1895, came the summons for Emanuel Bowman to lay down the burdens and trials of this life and join the vast and silent majority.

He arose as usual Wednesday morning at an early hour, and started to attend to the duties of the day, but soon returned to the house, complaining of not feeling well. Nothing serious was thought of it however until evening, when he was taken with spasms. Medical aid was at once summoned but could give him no relief, hemorrhage of the bowels, caused by the bursting of a blood vessel, having set in, and he passed away at 9 o'clock Thursday evening.

Deceased was born December 22, 1841, in Monroe County, Penna., being the second of a family of 8 children, of whom one brother and four sisters still survive. He remained upon his father's farm until he became of age, coming to Osterdock in 1865 and working at his trade.

In 1874 he embarked in the mercantile business, which he conducted with great success until the time of his death. For a long time he also held the agency of the C.M. & St. P. Ry. and express Co., at Osterdock, but finally his other extensive business interests compelled him to resign.

In 1868 he was married to Mary, daughter of Stephen Aultman, of Penna., and to them came a family of five children, Emma, now Mrs. H. C. Andresen, Harry, Charles, Lizzie and Maudie, all of whom survive to comfort their sorrowing mother. Mr. Bowman was a kind and loving father, a good neighbor and a genial business man, who will be greatly missed by his hosts of friends.

Shortly after coming to Clayton County he was joined by his parents, Samuel and Catherine Bowman, the mother still living at the advanced age of 70 to see her son join that innumerable throng that has gone before, The father, Samuel, having died some four years ago.

The funeral was held Sunday, May 19, at 10 o'clock, and was largely attended there being some 131 teams in the procession which escorted the corpse to its last resting place in the Brown cemetery, near Colesburg. Deceased was a member of the Elkader lodge of the I.O.O.F., and quite a number of brother Odd Fellows from neighboring towns were present to do him honor.

The stricken family wish to express their sincere appreciation of and their grateful thanks for the kindness and sympathetic aid of many friends during this their great sorrow.