- Birth: 7 Feb 1849, Wisconsin
- Death: 18 May 1892, Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin
- Burial: City Cemetery, Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin
Father: Hiram BOWEN
Mother: Martha WHEELER
Family 1:
Birney Barnes COLBORNE
- Marriage: 1881, South Dakota
- Belle Evelyn COLBORNE
- Elizabeth Aline COLBORNE
- Bernice Martha COLBORNE
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_Hiram BOWEN ____|
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|--Ellen Frances BOWEN
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| _Samuel WHEELER ________
| _Aaron WHEELER Judge_|_Chloe KIDDER __________
| _Samuel WHEELER ___|
| | | _Alexander HARPER ______
| | |_Margaret HARPER ____|_Elizabeth BARTHOLOMEW _
|_Martha WHEELER _|
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| _Samuel JOHNSON Sr.__|________________________
|_Lucretia JOHNSON _|
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|_Lidia or Mercy _____|________________________
INDEX
Notes
1880 US Federal Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mothe
r's Birthplace
Hiram BOWEIR Self M Male W 65 MA Farmer CT MA
Martha BOWEIR Wife M Female W 59 OH Keeping House OH OH
Ella BOWEIR Dau S Female W 30 WI At Home MA OH
Marvin K. BOWEIR Son S Male W 20 WI Works The Farm MA OH
Bessie STREETER Niece S Female W 18 WI Assists Her Aunt NY OH
Soloman BRINK Other S Male W 21 WI Farm Laborer --- ---
Source Information:
Census Place Township 100, Hutchinson, Dakota Territory
Family History Library Film 1254112
NA Film Number T9-0112
Page Number 114B
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1885 Dakota Territorial Census
Name: Hiram Bowen Race: W Age: 70 Birth Place: Mass Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio
n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Martha Bowen Race: W Age: 64 Birth Place: Ohio Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locat
ion: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Marvin Bowen Race: W Age: 25 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locatio
n: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Ellen F. Colborne Race: W Age: 35 Birth Place: Wis Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Lo
cation: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Emma Gray Race: W Age: 20 Birth Place: NY Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Location: T
own 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Belle Colborne Race: W Age: 2 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/2 Locati
on: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
Name: Bessie A. Colborne Race: W Age: 4/12 Birth Place: Dak Enumeration District: 133 1/
2 Location: Town 100, Range 59, Hutchinson, Ty Dak
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Beloit Free Press
Thursday May 12, 1892, pg. 3 Col 3.
Mrs. Ella Frances Bowen COLBORN
Received and transcribed at Simi Valley, CA,
From microfilm copy, April 17, 2004.
DIED
COLBORN: Mrs. Ella Frances Colborn, wife of B. B. Colborn, of Chicago, died Wednesday at 8:3
0 oŁuclock of heart disease, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Dr. Bell, at the age of 42 y
ears. Mrs. Colborn had been with her sister, Mrs. Bell, since the 9th of February, at whic
h time she was brought from Chicago by Dr. Bell in a very precarious condition. She was the s
econd daughter of Mr. Bowen, a former prominent citizen of Janesville.
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Janesville Gazette
May 13, 1892, pg. 4 col. 6
Received and transcribed at Simi Valley, CA,
From microfilm copy, April 17, 2004.
NEATH THE HAND OF DEATH
Mrs. B. B. Colborne
Many in Janesville will be pained to learn of the death of Mrs. B. B. Colborne, formerly Mis
s Ella Bowen of this city. Her death occurred on Wednesday at the home of her sister, Mrs. D
r. Bell, of Beloit (WI), where she had been for nearly a year under medical treatment for hea
rt trouble. Mrs. Colborne was a daughter of the late Hiram Bowen, at one time publisher of T
he Gazette, and resided in Janesville many years. She leaves beside her husband, three child
ren, also two sisters, Mrs. Dr. Bell, of Beloit, and Mrs. Hattie Kershaw, of Helena, Montana
, three brothers, Wheeler S. Bowen, of the Yankton (S. D.) Dakotan, formerly City Editor of t
he Gazette, Will Bowen of Los Angeles, Cal., and Marvin Bowen, of Alexandria, South Dakota
. The funeral will be held from Dr. BellŁus residence in Beloit on Saturday afternoon at 2 oŁu
clock. W. S. Bowen telegraphs from Yanktown that he will be in Beloit Saturday morning, he b
eing the only one of the family near enough to attend the funeral except Mrs. Bell.
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Beloit Free Press
January 12, 1893
Received and transcribed at Simi Valley, CA,
From microfilm copy, April 17, 2004.
INTERMENTS IN THE CITY CEMETERY IN THE YEAR 1892
Among several listed is:
Date of burial: 14 May 1892, Mrs. Ella F. Colburn, heart disease, age 42, place of death: Cit
y of Beloit.
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Janesville Recorder Times
19 May 1892, Pg/ 4, Col. 6
Received and transcribed at Simi Valley, CA,
From microfilm copy, April 17, 2004.
CROSSED THE DARK RIVER
Mrs. Ella Colborne
Mrs. Ella Colborne died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Dr. Samuel Bell, of Beloit, on Wednes
day morning at the age of forty-two years. She was brought from Chicago to Beloit in Februar
y by Dr. Bell. Mrs. Colborne will be remembered by many in Janesville as Ella Bowen, daughte
r of the late Hiram Bowen of this city. She leaves a husband, B. B. Colborne, three childre
n and two sisters - Mrs. Dr. Bell and Mrs. Hattie Kershaw, of Helena, Mont., and three brothe
rs - Wheeler S. Bowen, of Yankton, South Dakota; Will P. Bowen, of Los Angeles, Cal; and Marv
in Bowen of Alexandria, South Dakota. The funeral will b held from the residence of Dr. Bell
, in Beloit, this afternoon at two oŁuclock. Wheeler Bowen will arrive from Yankton, Dakota
, to attend the funeral. The Janesville friends of the deceased will be pained to learn of h
er untimely demise.
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