Herman Hamel Bowman

b. 8 December 1895, d. 27 March 1942
  • Herman Hamel Bowman was born on 8 December 1895 in Pennsylvania.
  • Herman Hamel Bowman registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Pennsylvania while single and living in Stauffer, employed farming by James s. Bowman in Bullskin Township.
  • He married Della (?)
  • Herman Hamel Bowman and Della (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Smock, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Other members of the household included Harold Eugene Bowman. Also in the household were children Gertrude (age 19), Herman Jr. (13), Owen (9) and Clifton (1).
  • He was employed as a loader by a coal mine, according to the 1940 census.
  • He was interred at Bowman-Flatwoods Cemetery, Vanderbilt, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
  • Herman Hamel Bowman died on 27 March 1942 at age 46 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
  • The following appeared on 30 March 1942 in The Morning Herald: Herman Hamel Bowman, 47, of Route 51, near Smock, died in Uniontown hospital Friday night, March 27, 1942, following a short illness of compllications.
         Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Della Bowman; six children, Mrs. John Tucker of Rowes Run; and Gertrude, Herman, Jr., Owen, Harold, and Clifton Bowman all at home; his father, James Bowman of Scottsdale; two brothers, Elmer Bowman of Smock and Robert Bowman of Mount Pleasant and a sister, Mrs. Ruth Fisher of Mount Pleasant.
         The body has been removed from the Ira Blair and Sons Funeral Home, Perryopolis, to the home of Elmer Bowman, where the funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, followed by additional rites at 2:30 o'clock at the Flatwood Baptist church, Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
  • Last Edited: 25 Mar 2017

Family: Della (?) b. 1896