DAR I.D. Number: 61663

Agnes Wildes Bowen was the 5th child, eldest and only surviving daughter, b. October 8, 1865, Saturday at noon at 2105 West DeLancey Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Particulars from her father's manuscript account of the Bowen family) Her official birth certificate in Philadelphia records gives her middle name as "Wilkes" which is a clerical error for "Wildes", her mother's maiden surname. She was named for her mother's aunt by marriage, Agnes Woods (Henry) Wildes, wife of George Wildes (1798-1861), a brother of Tilton Wildes. She is living, 1928, in Washington, District of Columbia. Had four children, all sons, three of whom died under two years of age. Only surviving child, Charles Shepard 2d, author of this chart, b 9 Nov., 1900 at 121 Fifteenth Avenue North, Seattle, Washington State. M 28 Oct., 1898, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Tacoma, Washington, her husband's second wife. Wedding trip to Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. M Thomas Rochester Shepard, 2d son of Charles (b 15 Mar., 1818, d 7 Sept., 1899) and Katherine Rochester Colman (b 27 Dec., 1823, d 20 May, 1902) Shepard, b 31 July, 1852, Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in Dansville Village, Livingston County, New York. (particulars of birth from his own statements to his son Charles 2d, author of this chart) D. 15 Mar., 1928 (110th anniversary of his father's birth) Thursday, 4:15 p.m. in Washington, D.C. aged 75 years, 7 months, 15 days. Buried 17 Mar., 1928 in Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville, New York.

Source: "A Family Lineage...Agnes Wildes Bowen (Generation Chart) At Burton Historical Collection, Detroit's Main Branch Public Library.

Alfred's second wife was Helen........ They had 2 young sons Alfred LaFayette born Jan 24, 1921, died Aug 25, 1921 of bronchial pneumonia at Buffalo, NY The other one was Conrad S. born May 4, 1919 died Aug 6, 1921 also of bronchial pnumonia.

Avis Bowen buried: Bowen Family Lot, Read Farm, Warren, R. I.

Benjamin Bowen was a privateer.

Benjamin Earl Bowen was a physician.

Berly W. Bowen was a Shawmut RR Telegrapher.

Bryon D. Bowen was on the hospital staff at Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y.

Byron Henry Bowen was a teacher and farmer. He was buried 28 August, 1923, Howard Presbyterian Ch., Howard, N.Y.