4. Walter Henery BOWEN was born on 7 Apr 1870 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He died on 24 Oct 1944 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He was buried on 25 Oct 1944 in Oak Hill Cemetery. According to Alton Bowen, Walter was a peddler, first in a wagon and later in a truck. Alton also said that Walter had a crippled leg. He was married to Corra Ander WILDER on 18 Feb 1892 in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
5. Corra Ander WILDER was
born on 11 Feb 1874 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. She died on 14 Mar 1915 in Pontotoc,
Mississippi. The following appeared in "The Sentinel", Pontotoc, Mississippi on
March 25, 1915:
Mrs. Cory A. Bowen, wife of Walter Bowen, passed quietly away at her home three miles
north of town Sunday morning, March 14, at 10:10 o,clock. She was an invalid for ninetten
years but bore her afflictions patiently, at all times trusting in the Lord for help. On
April 25, 1913, she underwent a serious operation at the Baptist hospital, Memphis,
returning there the following January for treatment which proved somewhat beneficial, but
did not result in complete restoration. However, she was greatful for the partial relief
and rejoiced in her improved condition and was the sunshine of the home she so loved.
Her last illness was a month's duration when she received the tenderest
ministrations of husband, children and physician and the skilled nursing of a
daughter-in-law, Mrs Victor Bowen. The patient sufferer expressed appreciation of all the
kind attention shown her, the visits and solicitous inquiries of freinds concerning her
health. She talked often of death during her illness and assured her loved ones she was
prepared and ready to go when the Lord should call her. Perfectly conscious to the last
she told those around her that she was dying, offered a beautiful prayer, tenderly bade
her devoted husband good bye and gently fell asleep.
The funeral was held Monday noon at Oak Hill church which was filled with sorrowing
relatives and freinds. Rev. Henry West conducted the service in a feeling way, making a
telling example of the life and patience of Jobe - how he endured to the end and was
saved. Interment followed in the cemetery close by. She was laid near a little daughter
Lillie, who, at the age of twenty-two months, died in the year 1906. Lovely spring flowers
were laid on the newly made mound by those who loved the sleeper.
The deceased, a daughter of the late L. R. Wilder, was born Feb. 11, 1874, in Pontotoc
County, near Bethel church, and had just passed her forty-first birthday. She professed
faith in Christ at the age of twenty years and united with the Baptist church at Cherry
Creek, but afterwards transferred her membership to Oak Hill. She loved church worship and
the family alter was another sacred place always dear to her heart.
Corry Wilder was married to Walter H. Bowen Feb. 18, 1892, and to this happy and
congenial couple were born five children, four of whom are living, Victor, Drue, Mary and
Edd, and a daughter-in-law, Lizzie Lavona, who constitute the household now so sadly
bereft by the absence of its most cherished member. To them and other relatives, THE
SENTINEL extends sincere condolence.
She was buried on 16 Mar 1915 in Oak Hill Cemetery. Children were:
i. Lee Victor
BOWEN was born on 22 Dec 1893 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He died on 11 Jan 1948
in Jefferson, Tx.
ii. Drue Harvey
BOWEN was born on 7 Nov 1895 in Pontotoc, Ms. He died on 11 Feb 1980 in
Collegedale, Tn.
iii. Mary
Modena BOWEN was born on 14 Apr 1900 in Menphis, Tn. She died on 7 Nov 1950 in
Menphis, Tn.
iv. Lillie
Augusta BOWEN was born on 22 Nov 1904 in Pontotoc, Ms. She died on 5 Aug 1906
in Pontotoc, Ms.
2 v. Ed Vardman BOWEN.
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