Margaret Richards ^{2 3 4 5 6}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She has alternate birth date of 25 October 1808 and a birth location of Steubenville, OH.

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• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in East Union Township, Wayne, OH on 6 August 1850. ⁵

1850 US Census
Page 221B, Dwelling 344, Family 345, Roll 739
East Union Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Margaret Bowman..40..OH
(Living with husband and 6 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date were 25 Oct 1808, then her age should have been 41 instead of 40.
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in East Union Township, Wayne, OH on 22 June 1880. ⁶

1880 US Census
Page 179C, District 230, Dwelling 374, Family 381, Roll 1076
East Union Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Margaret Bowman..Moth..72..OH..Keeping House..widowed
(Widowed and living at the home of her married son, Joshua, and his family.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 25 Oct 1808, then her age should have been 71 instead of 72.
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• She has alternate death information of 4 December 1880 and Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States. ⁴

• She was buried in 1899 in the East Union Cemetery in East Union Township, Wayne, OH.

Margaret married Jonas Bowman, son of John Jacob Bowman and Charlotte Stough, on 22 June 1826 in Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States.^{1 2 3 4} (Jonas Bowman was born on 17 November 1804 in Redstone, PA,^{2 3 4 5} died on 8 March 1869 in Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States ^{2 3 4} and was buried after 8 March 1869 in East Union Township, Wayne, OH ⁴.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in East Union Township, Wayne, OH on 6 August 1850. ⁵

1850 US Census
Page 221B, Dwelling 344, Family 345, Roll 739
East Union Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Jonas Bowman..45..PA..Farmer
Margaret Bowman..40..OH
John Bowman..19..OH
Leonard Bowman..18..OH
Sarah Bowman..16..OH
Wesley Bowman..14..OH
Harrison Bowman..13..OH
Mary Bowman..5..OH
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