Bowers Beacon, Newsletter of the John Shadrach Bowers Family Association, Volume 1, No 1, Jan 1978

Thank you to Julie Olson for providing a copy of this old newsletter! On the back page, it has details for a family reunion that was held on July 15th at the  Big Cottonwood Region Park in Utah. This coincides with the old photos we have on the reunion. 

(8 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

(7 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

LEO FULLMER BOWERS LINE

(6 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

GEORGE COLLINS BOWERS LINE
Harold Bowers Family

(5 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

GEORGE COLLINS BOWERS LINE
Written on the back: Harold Bowers Family

(4 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

Only one unknown for this photo. Man on the right, in the back.

(3 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

Written on the back: Jacob and Marie Bowers
Siblings, L-R: Jacob DeLoss Bowers; Florence Marie Bowers; Ether Wallace Bowers

They are the children of Ether Bowers and Marietta Pay. Ether is the son of Jacob Bowers and Caroline Goble. Jacob is the son of James Bowers and Maria Lay. James is the son of Joseph Sansom Bowers and Isabella Haldren. (A big thanks goes to Nancy Bowers Middleton, the daughter of Jacob Deloss Bowers daughter, for helping to identify this photo!)

(2 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

LOUIS JAMES BOWERS, Sr. LINE
Raymond Cottrell Bowers' Family
Back row: Raymond Cottrell Bowers and unknown man.
Front row: Rebecca Bowers Bryce, unknown child, Elise Terry Bowers, Lori Bowers Denney, Terrie Bowers Fisher, Judith Bowers Dykman, unknown child.

Just need help identifying three people in this photo. If you know, please let me know.

(1 of 8) John Shadrach Bowers and Esther Fullmer Family Reunion, Summer 1978

This past summer I obtained some old photos from a John Shadrach Bowers Reunion that was held at the Cottonwood Ballpark in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. (Thank you to Donna Wells for sharing those with me!) It is believed to be the summer of 1978. Julie Olson just provided me with an old Bowers newsletter that has the details on this reunion:

Saturday, July 15, 1978
1:00 to 7:00 pm
Big Cottonwood Region Park in Salt Lake City 
4300 S 1300 E

ROSE HANNAH BOWERS LINE

David Alexander Buchanan (1908-1982) with his wife Ruth Smith (1909-1999)

FRANK BRADLEY BOWERS LINE

Winnifred Bowers (1922-1999); Eugene Sanders Bowers (1925-2009); Russell Bowers (son of Eugene and Gloria Bowers; front, Gloria (wife of Eugene S. Bowers)