GENEALOGY OF A BOWMAN FAMILY, Byron Whitener Bowman,
1956
Biography of Charles Christopher Bowman - He was born on
September 4, 1861, in Cape Girardeau County, near Oak Ridge, Missouri. He was
the third child of Benjamin Lee and Eliza Jane Bowman.
Charles Christopher, after finishing the public schools and
attending Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill, Mo., and the State Normal School
at Cape Girardeau, decided to take a course in telegraphy and entered the
service of The St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad Co. (now the
Missouri Pacific Railroad), as agent and telegraph operator, serving for many
years, principally at Marquand, Missouri, where he lived for many years. Here he
married Mrs. Martha Emeline Whitener (Bedford), a young widow with one child,
Effie Leah Bedford. While active in church work, he was licensed to preach after
conducting services in nearby churches and missions, yet he never fully entered
the work of the ministry.
He was transferred by agreement to the Dexter, Missouri, station
on September 1, 1896, having agreed with the agent at Dexter, Missouri, Mike
Owens, to make the change, which was agreeable to the railroad company. But
after a few years as agent at Dexter, he resigned from railroad work to become a
stockholder and secretary of the newly organized Dexter Milling Co., a concern
in which his brother, William Chesley Bowman of Sikeston, Mo., also became a
stockholder and official. He was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, a deacon in
the first Baptist Church of Dexter, Mo., a member of the city's Board of
Education, and a member of many civic and fraternal organizations. He lived an
exemplary life. He passed away in the Mayfield Sanitarium in St. Louis, Mo., on
February 4, 1906, and was buried in the Dexter, Mo., Cemetery, where his wife is
also buried.
By his son, Byron Whitener Bowman
NOTE BY CAROL J. BOWMAN: The certificate of death says he passed
away at the Mayfield Sanitarium in Dexter, Missouri. It also says he was born 8
Sep 1861 while BWB's genealogy says 4 Sep 1861.
Article courtesy of [email protected]:
The Marble Hill Press, Marble Hill, MO February 8, 1906
Rev.
and Mrs. B. L. Bowman received a message Monday morning conveying the sad
intelligence of the death of their son, Charles C. Bowman. Mr. Bowman had been
in poor health some time, and as a last resort was moved from his home at Dexter
(Stoddard Co.) to the Baptist Sanitarium, St. Louis, where he passed away about
9 o'clock p.m., Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Bowman went to Dexter Tuesday to attend
the funeral which took place Wednesday, yesterday. Mr. Bowman was a prominent
citizen of Dexter and a 32nd degree Mason and after the funeral sermon, the
Masons took charge of the further funeral services. ~ Local
News