JONATHAN BOWEN

    Jonathan Bowen was a native of Virginia.  He emigrated with his family to Ross County, Ohio, and about 1825 removed to Union County and here settled on the tract of land now owned by Mrs. Jane Bowen; he was twice married, and on the farm just mentioned he and his last wife both died; his wife, Elsie, died July 6, 1840, aged sixty-six years; he died February 18, 1852, aged ninety-one years.  Their children were as follows: Priscilla, married Henry Lease and settled in the West; Jesse, married a Miss Spurgeon and resides in the north part of this county; Jonathan, married Mahala Clark, is deceased, she still survives; Edward, married Julia A. Dysert, is deceased; Abraham, married Miss Sarah Bradley and removed to Kansas; and William, who married Jane Blue, is deceased.