BOWLES, George C.

Date of birth:  1874
Date of death: 21 Apr 1899 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 28, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 42, page 1 column 2

Local and Personal.

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George Bowles, a well-known and popular young man died last Friday at his home in this city of consumption. For a number of years he clerked in Dr. D. H. Miller’s drug store, where he won the confidence and esteem of his employer and all who came in contact with him. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the residence, conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry

Unknown source
Repository: Johnson County Historical Society

A Young Man of Estimable Character Passes Away.

George Boles [sic], after an illness of several months with consumption died at 7:30 o’clock, Thursday evening April 20th at his home on east King street. The funeral took place at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon from the home and was attended by a large number of friends. The services were conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall of the Presbyterian church. The interment was at Green­lawn. Arthur McDaniel, John Oliver, Ora Means, Charles Kerlin, Arthur Alexander, and Ferd Strickler were the pall-bearers. At the cemetery many friends had gathered to pay their last respects to the young man whose friends were numbered by his acquain­tances.

George Bo[w]les was a man of excellent character, highly esteemed by all and in his intercourse with others had proven himself worthy of the good opinion in which he was held. He gave promise of a successful career in his chosen profession, that of pharmacy.

For six years he was employed in the drug store of Dr. D. H. Miller and was industrious and faithful in the discharge of his duties, but was finally obliged to leave the store because of ill health. He sought improvement in Texas and Arizona and returned to Franklin some­what benefited but soon again began to decline.

He was born in Franklin May 6, 1874, and was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bo[w]les who survive him. Five sisters Mrs. Frank Hughes, Mrs. Daniel Walden, Mrs. J. A. Schmith, and Misses Irene and Jennie Bo[w]les, are also left to mourn his death.

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