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From: "myron dunning" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:18:55 -0800
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Chyryll Reed:
I traced my ancestry back to John Bowman, b. 1818 in
Boiling Springs, Cumberland Co. PA, the son of Christian
Bowman b. 1794 in and Mary Mohler b. abt 1790 [ both in Lancaster Co., PA].
Christian's parents, Johan Bauman
and Margaretha Guth lived right next to the womens' quarters at the Ephrata
Cloister and Margarethas' parents,
Hannes Mohler and Catherine________? lived nearby.
At one time a Mary Mohler attended Snow Hill, maybe
for baptism. I have copies of Spohn's and Heinholds books on the Bauman
Family, but can't make a positive
connection between the Christian Bauman b. 1734,d.1814 married Nancy Ann
Huber and I have found no children for them. The span between the two
Christian Bowman's
birth is sixty years, and there may be another generation in
between.
Anyway, I seem to be stuck on parents for my grgrgr-
grandfather, Christian Bowman, said in a CumberlandCo. biography of his
grandson John W. Bowman, MD to be
born and reared in Lancaster Co., PA. His Daughter Anna
Married Daniel Balsbaugh a Brethren preacher in Indiana,
who he was later living with.
Do you have any info on this family? Myron L. Dunning


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryll Reed" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:36 AM
Subject: RE: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister


>
> Merle,
>
> I do understand your point. I will tell you that I've heard from well
> over 35 people already who are interested in the Snow Hill list. It
> seems a waste of other researchers's time without an interest in these
> wonderful utopian "experiments" to be inundated with the tiny details
> some of us are interested in. The subject has also come up that many of
> us are interested in non-genealogical details about Ephrata and Snow
> Hill. I am personally very interested in knowing not just my ancestors'
> names and significant dates but what drove them, what inspired them, and
> the role spirituality played in their lives. I initially thought I
> might find another 6 or 7 people interested in a private list. The
> demand has been so overwhelming that we are in the process of setting up
> a rootsweb list so that the archives will be available to everyone.
>
> I've been a subscriber to the Brethren list for quite awhile and have
> learned so much. I plan on continuing and will certainly do whatever
> possible to make sure I notify the list when items of interest are
> posted or any new information uncovered.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merle C Rummel [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:44 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
>
>
> > Several of the subscribers to several of these lists are putting a
> > private email list together to share info on both the Snow Hill
> > Cloiser (and it's "mother" Ephrata) and the families associated with
> > it.
>
> The request has been made before -I, as an historian, especially want to
> repeat it -
>
> Please do not start all these separate llists - it prohibits the rest of
> us from knowing the informations that you present! And you might have
> something connected to what we need -that we had no idea about.
>
> I do not try to subscribe to all the lists of places and families that
> connect to the many immigrants into and through the Ohio, Kentucky,
> Indiana areas (1780s to 1850s mostly). It is impossible. I am trying
> to work up the original churches in these three states -and there are no
> church records of any kind for most of them. They disappeared. But
> then I see a request about your Brethren families -which mentions my
> area. Or alternatively, I know about that person -and you don't know
> that they came to my particular church settlement.
>
> With your separate list -both of us are loosers.
>
> Merle C Rummel
> Church Historian
>
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