Joseph Whitmer {1844 - 1900} Cumberland County Pa.
My great grandmother SUSAN JANE BOWERMASTER {born September 30th 1847} married JOSEPH WHITMER {1844 - 1900}. They were married April 12th 1868 in Cumberland County Pa.
Joseph Whitmer was a Civil War Veteran. Private, Company G, 202nd Regt. Pa. Volunteer Army is on his tombstone.
They lived in Cumberland County Pa. Southampton Twp. Shippensburg area. Somewhere along the line they were seperated and Susan {Whitmer} had a child to another man. That child was my great grandfather John Alfred Bowermaster {born April 25th 1872}. The way the 1880 census looks, the child was being raised by his grandparents Jacob and Polly Bowermaster in Cleversburg. Susan and Joseph Whitmer got back together after the child John A. Bowermaster was born.
Could anybody possibly have any information about who the father was {of my great grandfather John Alfred Bowermaster} ?
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Re: Joseph Whitmer {1844 - 1900} Cumberland County Pa.
Barry Lombardo 2/25/11
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Re: Joseph Whitmer {1844 - 1900} Cumberland County Pa.
Dennis Brandt 7/03/11
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Re: Joseph Whitmer {1844 - 1900} Cumberland County Pa.