Nansemond County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Bowles, Wilhelmina Crowder, 1948 

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Mrs. Bowles Dies After Long Illness 

  Mrs. Wilhelmina Bowles, 60, widow of the late R.M. Bowles, died at a local 
hospital here yesterday after a long illness.  Mrs. Bowles was the daughter of 
the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Crowder of Petersburg.  She is survived by two 
daughters, Miss Jean Bowles and Miss Mary Anne Bowles of Suffolk; six sons, 
R.M. Bowles, Jr., of Boston; William J., James T. and Charles A. Bowles of 
Suffolk; Frank F. and John S. Bowles of New York City; three sisters, Mrs. 
E.T. Blankenship of Wilson, Va., Mrs. Howard Perkinson and Mrs. Willie Pillar 
of Petersburg; two brothers, L.L. Crowder of Richmond, and John Crowder of 
Petersburg, and three grandchildren. 

  The body was taken to the I.O. Hill Funeral Home pending funeral 
arrangements. 


Wilhelmina (CROWDER; Mrs. Richard M.*) BOWLES, 
b. 5 Sep 1888, Petersburg, d. 19 Apr 1948, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block K, Lot 3*), Suffolk, 21 Apr 1948, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 13, Tues., Apr. 20, 1948, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #133773529.  It shows b. 1888, & gives 
   m. 25 Dec 1910, Sullivan Co., TN. 

D.Cert. 8673 (Suffolk #135) gives b. 5 Sep 1887, & her mother as 
   Jewell E. CHANDLER. 

Find a Grave Memorial #133773507 &c. gives her husband as Richard Moore 
   BOWLES; however, his WW-I draft card gives Richard Montgomery BOWLES, Jr. 

Her parents, James Peterson "Peter" & Julia Etta (ANDERSON) CROWDER, 
   are buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. 

Her father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in Co. A, 
   44th Battalion VA Infantry. 

Her father-in-law Richard Moore BOWLES also was a Confederate veteran, having 
   served in the 1st NC Artillery. 


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