STOWE, Sumner
Source: North American Family Histories (Hartwell) #650
Sumner Stowe went in 1838 to Pleasant Hill, O (sic – should be Indiana) remained four years, then removed to Attica, Ind, engaged in the shoe trade; m. Catherine Ehrhardt born Piqua Ohio 10 Aug 1821 d 24 Jan 1894. In 1876 he went to Golden City, Colo, later to Denver, where he opened a hotel. He engaged in mining speculations, removed to a homestead near Denver where he died.
Children: Theodore Elborn born 16 October 1842 (in trade with his father, enlisted 9 Aug 1862 H 72nd Ind vols mustered out 6 July 1865; was in advance from Murfreesboro to Hoover’s Gap in cavalry engagement at Okalona, Ala wounded in face and hand; was also in battle of Chicamauga. In 1867 he went to Lafayette, Ind was in a bookstore; 1868 to Chicago in job office of Evening Post, later employed in a manufacturing ompany 1878 to Denver, Colo where he is collector for a furniture shop.
William Mather b. 27 Nov 1844 d 14 Aug 1875. Railroad postal clerk – threatened with pulomonary disease went too late to Colorado where he died in Denver.
Helen b 28 Feb 1850 d 12 Nov 1851.
Source: John Parlin and his Descendants, page 80:
Sumner Stow born November 21, 1816 at Hubbardston, Mass., residence Indiana. Son of Ebenezer Stow (1780-1875) and Hannah Murdock (d 1855).
Sumner and Catherine were married in Montgomery County, Indiana on June 20, 1841. They were living in Fountain County, Indiana in 1850 and 1860, children: Theodore E., William M. and Eleanore.
Note: Buried Riverside Cemetery, Denver, Colorado son of Ebeneaer (1780-1875) and Hannah Murdock (1782 – 1855) Stowe – buried with Catherine
Note 2: Catherine is Airhart on marriage and tombstone NOT Ehrhardt as in the above biography - not sure which is correct but believe she is likely a daughter of Peter Airhart & Elizabeth Fulwider