Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE WEAVER AND BOWEN FAMILIES IN GOMER TOWNSHIP 
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 THE WEAVER AND BOWEN FAMILIES IN GOMER TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  Mrs. Euphema Weaver Bowen, 80

     Miss Weaver, the daughter of Samuel Weaver came into Caldwell County 1872 
with her parents, at the age of twenty one.  They settled three miles east of 
Nettleton.  In 1875 she married S.L. Bowen and they improved some land next to 
the Weaver farm, hence she has spent most of her life in one community.  She 
had four sons and three daughters all of whom lived on a farm.  The Bowens 
gradually fenced their land from the prairie land on all sides, put down 
wells, planted orchards, and laid the foundation for good farms.
     She knit all the mittens and hose used on her own farm, made underwear, 
dresses, shirts and pants, in fact had a complete clothing factory.  She dried 
fruit - the old fashioned way of drying of peaches and apples was to split 
them, seed them and spread them out on tablecloths on a low roof till they 
were sun dried.  Then they were tied up in flour sacks, against flies and 
worms.  There was little canning done and mostly in tin cans with sealing wax 
on tops.  They dried peas, sweet corn cut off the cob, navy beans and lima 
beans; gallons of cucumbers and green tomato pickles and the kitchen was 
bright with dried peppers.  Soft soap was made at home and supplied all their 
need for general purposes.  Candles were made and molded at home in molds of 
twelve or twenty four holes.  A quilt was always ready to work on.  Every wife 
had a hop vine for yeast and bread.  You can see that no woman these days had 
time to spend foolishly in attending teas and card parties.
     The old Bowen farm is now owned by Edbert Clarkson who married the 
youngest Bowen daughter.  Mr. Bowen died several years ago and Mrs. Bowen 
lives with Egbert.  The Weavers and Bowens bury in the Weaver Cemetery near 
Nettleton.
     Interviewed  July 1934.


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