PHOTO COLLECTION OF brad bowen
thank you to historical society member brad bowen for sharing these wonderful family pictures. you will find them scattered about the website & facebook page, but here is the full collection as a reference.
table rock
Photo 1748 - Tom Freeman says this is Johnny's Cafe. Brad says that his grandma Cecil Bowen is the woman on the far right.
Photo 1747 - Harvesting in 1946.
Photo 1758. November 1953 - Stanley & Johnny Bowen picking corn
1944 or 1945 - Teacher Lillian Giles with Richard Dobrovolny and Ardyce Fritch Cumro in the back row. In the front row: Gary, Robert, and Donald Bedea.
Trade Day, undated. This was when drawings were made at a window on the south side of the bank. Photo 1752.
"Bob and Sam" and others, no date, no last names. Photo 1759. Looks like on the same day as the Trade Day photo above.
The hotel and the theater, Photo 1765.
Stanley & Cecil Bowen's house, just north of where the Mullins house used to be Photo 1762.
Between about 1947 and 1947, Lillian Heer Bowen taught school. Once she married and started a family, she gave it up. Here are her students one year, none identified. She taught at a country school which Brad believes was across Highway 4 from where Larry Gilbert now lives. Photo 1772.
the bowen family
the covault family
Wayne and Delmar Covault with cousin Lillian Heer Bowen, Photo 1752
covaults at church
John Covault & his Sunday school class on the steps of the Christian Church. Photo 1771.
Brad's grandpa John Covault is the teacher. In the back row, Brad says that the boy second from the right with the bow tie is Leonard Mertes, and the boy beside him is Floyd McKnight. Barb Harris and other Harris family members identify the fourth boy from the right as Art Harris. Also in the back row are Elmer Carter and Arnold Morton, but Brad is not certain which name on the picture is for which boy. The front row from left is Wayne Covault, Margaret Mays, Faye Aylor, an unidentified girl, Zelma Phillips, and Clifford Carter.
Brad's grandpa John Covault is the teacher. In the back row, Brad says that the boy second from the right with the bow tie is Leonard Mertes, and the boy beside him is Floyd McKnight. Barb Harris and other Harris family members identify the fourth boy from the right as Art Harris. Also in the back row are Elmer Carter and Arnold Morton, but Brad is not certain which name on the picture is for which boy. The front row from left is Wayne Covault, Margaret Mays, Faye Aylor, an unidentified girl, Zelma Phillips, and Clifford Carter.
Photo 1770, the Ladies Aid Society in about 1928 on the steps of the Christian Church. Elva Covault with Jean, Cora Jensen, Essie Wright with Pearl, Mary Gilbert with Dwain, Laura Day with Marian, Carrie Johnson with Donald, unidentified lady with baby, and Bessie Covault. Front: Bernice Johnson, Dorothy Johnson, and Lillian Covault.
the heer family
john & maud heer were the parents of cecile (cecil) heer. Cecil married stanley bowen. cecil and stanley's kids included johnny bowen, who was the father of brad & greg bowen.
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the hays family
Maude hays married john heer. stanley bowen was the son of their daughter cecil and the grandfather of brad & greg bowen.
Photo 1749, the Hays family.
Silas Hayes on the left, "Mr. Law" on the right. Mr. Law was a relative.
