Misc: Charles W. Bower Papers: 1956

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Memo on CWE Bower (Charles W. Bower) Papers. 

	Have Scanned the letters and papers.  They should be of value for local
genealogy and do not stop with the Bower Family.  His interest was in the
early settlers.  His memory was keen, though his working was sometimes naieve
and inconsistent.  They should be of interest, if ??, to future
generations.  I did not realize over what a long period his research
extended, and how much territory he covered, his ?? ground of centuries. 
Cemt ,  houses, church records, etc.  Evidently his offer of Bower family
Historian  ?? into this vortex of genealogical research.  I well remember
when I first met him  -- the Saturday afternoon, I sat on the front porch
with him, while he recounted the conditions of the past and recalled the
memories of the early settlers of this region that I had long forgotten or
never knew.  Also I remember the aroma of the stable, he told me once that in
the night when he awoke the spirits of these people of the past seemed to be
around him and with him.  If after  ?dissolution? the spirits of the dead
mingle what a galaxy of acquaintances of the research he must have met.
	I also note there was another Michael Bower in Berks while the John Adam
Bauer family lived there.  Likely he was the  "????" with General Bower and
Sammy on their trip over the Shamokin Trail in 1754.  Or it might have been
George Michael.  The presence of this other Michael no doubt is the  reason
George Michael so frequently used both names during his life.  Usually they
dropped the first name in social and business ?intercourse?  It is possible
this other Michael was a relative, maybe the brother of John Adam.  There was
a Thomas Bower in Berks too, whose house was attacked by the Indians during
the Indian Wars.  There must have been some reason for John Adam  ??  ?? 
??  by there so early on his arrival.    ??  ?? ??  from his German Friends 
??
	I was glad to find a list of the burials in the Old Ebenezer Cemetery.  I
thought some of my Grandmother's people were buried there and find her oldest
sister Sarah, married to Wm Whitmire is buried there, as I had expected.  As a
child I remember seeing her smoking a clay pipe, in her kitchen  -- A vivid
memory that has  ?? and I was glad too to find the list of John Eacute of
his homestead where Marvin and George Eacute now reside.  He wrongly names
Marvin as Myron

8-25-1956





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