OBIT: Elisha S. BOWLIN, 1929, Confluence, Somerset County, PA
  
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  ELISHA S. BOWLIN
  
    Elisha S. Bowlin of Confluence died very suddenly at 12:30 Saturday afternoon, 
  December 28.  He was aged 73 years, 7 months and 15 days.  He had been afflicted 
  with rheumatism and heart trouble but was able to be up and about.  He was over 
  to the business portion of the town within an hour of his death.  After 
  returning home he complained of sickness.  Dr. C. W. Frantz was sent for, but 
  when he arrived Mr. Bowlin was dead.
    Elisha S. Bowlin was born in Addison Township, May 13, 1856.  He was a son of 
  John R. and Susannah Bowlin.  He spent his younger days at the place of his 
  birth.  He married Miss Felicia Hook on April 6, 1887.  She died September 4, 
  1924.  He is survived by three children - Ralph W. Bowlin, Forest Hills, 
  Allegheny County, Pa., Miss Susan Bowlin, a clerk in the Treasury Department, 
  Washington, D.C., and Miss Helen Bowlin, at home - and four grandchildren.  Two 
  brothers, J. H. Bowlin of Molalla, Oregon, and Rev. Marshall Bowlin of 
  Lexington, Ill., a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also 
  survive.
    Mr. Bowlin was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for many years and 
  most of that time held the position of foreman in the maintenance of way 
  department.  He retired on February 28, 1927.  He was a member of the Methodist 
  Church since boyhood and was a consistent Christian.  He had been for many years 
  a member of and also secretary of the official board of the Confluence M.E. 
  Church and was also a member of the Men's Bible class of the church.  He was a 
  member of the Confluence School Board and for many years its secretary.  He was 
  also formerly a member of the Borough Council and also its secretary.  He was a 
  man of fine abilities and always scrupulously upright and honest.  His demise is 
  a loss to the community.
    Funeral services were held at his late home at 2 p.m., Monday, December 30, 
  Rev. H. W. Jamison officiating.  Interment was in Addison Cemetery.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, January 2, 1930