NOTES:
Name of Father: Valentine Bowman
Maiden Name of Mother: Mattie Pierce
Parents are buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery in Corvallis
1930 OR CENSUS – Ernest Bowman (3y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Tine (41y, b Kentucky, married at age 28y, occupation farmer) and Mattie (36y, b Kentucky, married at age 23y) and 3 brothers, Claude (11y, b Kentucky), Clarence (9y, b Kentucky) and Shelby (5y, b Oregon)
1940 OR CENSUS – Ernest Bowman (13y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Tine (51y, b Kentucky, occupation laborer) and Mattie (46y, b Kentucky) and 3 brothers, Claude (22y, b Kentucky, occupation laborer), Clarence (19y, b Kentucky, occupation laborer) and Shelby (15y, b Oregon); family was living in rural DeKalb co, Missouri in 1935
MARRIAGE – Ernest Bowman & Helen Birchell md 1 July 1949, Polk co, Oregon
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