Myrtle (King) Bowen - obit found
BOWEN, KING
Posted By: Eric S. Huffstutler (email) In Response To: Asa Collyer Bowen - son of Asa Clark Bowen (1827-2887) (Eric S. Huffstutler)
Date: 5/3/2004 at 15:28:15
I finally got a copy of Myrtle J. King (married Asa Collyer Bowen) obit from Miles City, Montana.
In years past it was speculated that she died in Michigan but though she was with her parents there? This turned out to be both true and false. Her parents remained in Iowa but she did die in Battle Creek, Michigan at a sanitarium. She was there for several months.
Says she was born December 15, 1881 at Sand Springs, IA. Married there March 18, 1900 to Asa and died November 16, 1921 Battle Creek, MI - buried at the Custer County Cem., Miles City, MT.
They moved to Montana May 15, 1907 and settled in Miles City July 1, 1919. Asa was a Super. for the Musselshell division of the Milwaukee Railroad supervisiong construction which took them several places after leaving Iowa.
They only had two children very far apart... at the time of her death: Theodore A. Bowen (age 20) and Edward H. Bowen (age 9) and an "adopted" child I find interesting. Miss Ellen C. Anderson who would have been around age 19 when Myrtle died. In the 1920 census it lists Ellen as a Lodger, born Minnesota and parents from Norway. This is odd????
Can anyone connect and add to where Asa dissapeared to since he is not with Myrtle at the Miles City cemetery and who this strange Miss Anderson is?
Eric
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