Mary Jane Bowlby

Mary Jane Bowlby, daughter of James Bowlby and Sarah Gross, was born in 1834 in Pennsylvania and died 12 or 14 August 1865 or 22 August 1866.

Name: Mary Jane Bowlby, but appears as "Mary A. Bowlloy" in the online index under Ohio marriages.

Mary married Luther Hunt Johnson on 28 Mar 1858 in Galion, Crawford Co., OH. The marriage certificate is in our possession.

1860s: We have a considerable collection of documents (see Mary Jane Bowlby Documents) in our possession relating to the life of Mary Jane Bowlby, particularly after the death of her husband. Some of these were kept in the family since that period, and others have been collected by her descendant, Peggy Reins. The most notable of these documents is a letter written on her behalf by an Elizabeth Courtride, asking for assistance in raising Amelia, and relaying remarks about Delbert, etc. It is not immediately obvious why we should still have this letter, if it had been sent. Did Ida Jane get it because it ended up in the hands of the person who became her guardian? Would this have been Emanuel Bowlby?

Peggy says that he went looking for her place of burial, and that she thinks it was in this plot now under a high school in Galion, where perhaps Frances and Eve were buried as well. Consider asking the Bowlby group about this.