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ELEVENTH GENERATION

903. Sarah BOWLBY (5042) (760) was born about 1832 in Somerset Co., PA. (5043)(5044)
The 1860 Illinois census enumerated Sarah in Somerset Township, Jackson County as age 28, born in PA. She died before 1866 in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL. She was buried in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL.

She was married to Henry Jackson BOWLBY (son of Samuel BOWLBY and Johanna PARKHURST) on 28 Jan 1849 in Warren Co., OH.(5045)

Samuel Barker BOWLBY's sister, Sarah, married her second cousin and Abigail BOWLBY's brother, Henry Jackson BOWLBY. Henry Jackson BOWLBY (5046) (760) was born about 1828 in New Jersey. He was a farmer in 1860 in Somerset Twp., Jackson Co., IL.(5047) He was buried in DeSoto, Jackson Co., IL.

Henry was born around 1828 according to the 1860 census of Jackson Co., IL. He married his second cousin, SARAH BOWLBY, daughter of Samuel Barker and Hulda (MESSENE) BOWLBY. Samuel Barker BOWLBY (10) was the eldest son of John BOWLBY (9), brother of Henry's father; so Henry was first cousin to his wife's father.They were married in Warren Co., OH. This was where Henry's brother, E. H., was married five months later and was most likely the place where his sister, Abigail, married her second cousin, Samuel Barker BOWLBY (11). The census indicates that Henry and Sarah were in Indiana when their first child was born around 1850; however, their second and third children were born in Ohio between 1851 and 1853. By 1853, the family was settled in Jackson Co., IL. Sarah BOWLBY and Henry Jackson BOWLBY had the following children:

child1010 i. Marion BOWLBY.
child1011 ii. Parkus BOWLBY.
child1012 iii. Lucretia BOWLBY.
child1013 iv. Donaldson BOWLBY.
child1014 v. William BOWLBY.