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INELKHAR-D Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 77

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  #1 [INELKHAR-L] Bowman                  ["George Gildersleeve" <gildie@cmc.]

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 07:05:07 -0800
From: "George Gildersleeve" <gildie@cmc.net>
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Seeking any information that might authenticate the information taken
from my great grandfather's diary.
>From the body of the diary following is a sentence he wrote:
     "I started on in good spirits.  When I came on to the Erie Canal
there was a group of Irishmen standing by a log fire.  One of them
stepped out into the trail before me ringing his fists and said -
"Faith young man, wouldn't you like to take a few knocks with a young
lark like I am?"  I said, "No", and whipped my horse on the back and
went around him on a gallop.  I reached my place of destination all
right to Elkhart County, Indiana.  I worked for Judge LATA in the
summer of 1845 right through harvest for nine dollars a month, and in
the summer of 1845 right through harvest for nine dollars a month, and
in the winter of 1845 and 1846 for seven dollars a month.  I bought a
broadcloth coat for $21.00 which cost me just three months work to a
day.  The Indians gave possession to the three river country in Iowa
on the fifteenth day of April, 1846 and I started for that country on
the first day of May."

David's parents Leonard and Catherine BOWMAN lived in the Elkhard
County area from the mid 1830's through about 1846 when they also went
to Iowa.  One of the daughters married a CASTEEL in Indiana.

I would LOVE to receive any information about the family and/or leads
to learn more.
Thanks, George Gildersleeve in Ontario, Oregon