Samuel Mowery Family Bible
| Holy Bible in English; New York, J. A. Wilmore & Co., Henry F. Giere, lessee, 1904. The Bible is set up with charts, listing Grand Parents, Parents (Samuel and Emma Mowery) and Children. Grand Parents Father's Mother: Mrs Harrison Mowery [Born] Feb 8 1844 [in] Thompsontown Mother's Father: Mr. Joseph M. Limes [Born] May-29 1830 [in] Lewistown [Died] Dec 19 1904 in Lewistown Mother's Mother: Mrs. Mary J. Limes [Born} Aug 29 1836 [in] Perrysville [Died] July 11 1905 [in] Lewistown Parents Father: Mr. Samuel F. Mowery [Born] May 29 1867 [in] McVeytown Mother: Mrs Emma B Mowery [Born] Aug 26 1867 [in] Lewistown They were married: July 19-1888 at Lewistown Pa by John B Focht Children Jessie M Mowery [Born] Mar 1st 1889 [in] Lewistown {Died] Sep 4 1893 Mary M Mowery [Born] Oct 15 1891 [in] Lewistown Emerson G Mowery [Born] April 11 1895 [in] Lewistown [Died] Aug 18 1974 Charles L. Mowery [Born] Apr 18 1900 [in] Lewistown [Died] 1950 [in pencil] Nelson H. Mowery [Born] Mar 25 1903 [Died] April 11 1979 [in pencil] Esther C Mowery [Born] Aug 12 1905 [in] Lewistown Insertions Funeral for Dr. J. M. Yeager Lewistown, Jan. 14. - The funeral services for the Rev. Dr. James Martin Yeager will be held from the residence, 101 Shaw avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Dr. A. Lawrence Miller, of the First Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. Carl Simon, of the St. John's Lutheran Church, the Rev. Henry J. Kiessel, of the Yeagerstown Methodist Church. The services at the residence will be followed by further services at the First Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Mt. Rock Cemetery. Doctor Yeager died Sunday night after an illness of less than a week caused by a slight stroke. He is survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Emma MacElroy, a son J. Creighton Yeager, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and a daughter, Mrs. A. A. (Marion) Bowie, of New York city; a brother, J. Orin Yeager, of Yeagertown; a half-sister, Mrs. Charles Rice, of Reedsville, and a half-brother, Dr. C. H. Brisbin, of North Main street. He was a traveler in many lands that included Palestine and many countries of South America, being one of the first travelers from Pennsylvania to cross the Andes by horseback. He at one time interviewed the president of Peru. He was a writer of note and gave valuable service in the compilation of the book "Old Pennsylvania Families." his forefathers having settled in Mifflin County before the Revolutionary War. Doctor Yeager was educated in the public schools, the Kishacoquillas Seminary, Dickinson Seminary, Wesleyan University, and Syracuse University. He held pastorates in New York and Massachusetts and was president of Drew Seminary for Young Women at Carmel, N. Y., for three years. In 1906 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature from Mifflin County. In 1907 he was appointed United States marshall for the middle district of Pennsylvania by President Roosevelt and re-appointed in 1911 by President Taft. During the World War he was employed by the Ordnance Department to address industrial workers in plants all over the East. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Society of War of 1812; City Club of Philadelphia, the Harrisburg Club, Alpha Delta Phi club of New York; F. & A. M. of Lewistown; Harrisburg Consistory; American Academy of Political and Social Science and a score of other clubs that includes the Kiwanis Club of Lewistown. The Bible is in the possession of the C. G. Brisee Genealogy Library, Irwin, IA. |
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