Ruland married Ethel R about 1917. Ethel was born on 27 Dec 1894 in OK; died in Aug 1981 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BOWEN, Robert was born about 1918 in MD.
2. BOWEN, Lois was born about 1923 in MD.
3. BOWEN, Gladys

Notes:

Randolph NY Register - 4/17/1942

Otis Franklin Bowen, well known
resident of this township, died at
his home in the Bowen district
Tuesday noon at the age of 85
years. Mr. Bowen had been in falling
health for nearly a year and
had been seriously ill about a
month.
The second son of William and
Harriet Hitchcock Bowen, . Otis
Bowen was born on a farm adjoini
n g the one where he had later
made his home. His father, when
three and a half yars old, had come
Into this section from Henrietta,
this state, with his parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Darius Bowen, Otis Bowen's
grandmother was Almira Torrance
Bowen, and his mother being Harriet
Hitchcock Bowen, he was a
descendent of three of Randolph's
most prominent pioneer families.
His memory of Randolph history,
extending iwk more than 75 years,
was excellent and he loved to retote
incidents of the community, interpreting
them in "the light of
a homespun phllosphy which add.d
Interest for the listener. Mr. Bowen
could remember his grandfather as
wrti as otm*r early Randolph pioneers
and by recalling informs
ation they told him, he was able
in later years to supply otherwise
unknown facts of Randolph history.
Otis Bowen was educated In the
district school, at Chamberlain In-
stitute here, and later attended a
religious college in Battle Creek,
Mich. He taught school for about
a year, but found this type of activity
too confining to suit his tastt,
so he took up the study of surveying
and became proficient In thto
line of work. *
During hie many years as a surveyor,
he did a great amount of
work In Cattaraugus and Chautauqua
Counties. Probably no other
men had so thorough a knowledge
of property lines in the southern
part of the Town of Randolph and
was always glad to be of assistance
tn settling disputes over boundary
lines, but did not accept work when
he knew it would be the basis of
lawsuits, for he believed they
should be avoided.
Mr. Bowen operated his farm,
which he had cleared himself, with
the purpose in view of making his
family as nearly self-sustaining as
possible, an aim which present war
conditions have again brought into
prominence. In earlier years he
enjoyed teaching omen to perform
farm work and he saw the various
translations from ox teem to airplane.
For many years he delivered
dairy products to customers In the
village. On April 24, 1888, he mar
ried Harriet Thomas of Humphrey,
who survives. Other survivors are
a son, Rouland G. Bowwen of Or-
lando, Fla., a daughter, Mrs. Olive
Woodmancy of East Randolph, and
e, brother, Tyler E Bowen of Takoma
Park, Washington.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Hottink Funeral Home here
Tuesday afternoon, April 21, at 2
o'clock with Elder Lawrence Scott
of the Jamestown district, Seventh
Day Adventist church officiating.
Burial will be in the Bowen family
lot in Sample Hill cemetery.

Otis married THOMAS, Harriet E on 24 Apr 1888. Harriet was born in Oct 1861 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Randolph NY Register - 4/18/1913

Sudden sickness removed from their
sphere of activity two men of one
family, when on Sunday last William
Bowen, and his son, Harlen Bowe,
both died of pneumonia. Within a
few hours of each other ese two
man who had been closely associated
through a lifetime, died in the same
house, and of similar difficulties.
William Bowe, the oldest man in
Randolph and who had resided here
perhaps longer than any other person,
died Sunday morning, while his son
himself a man of middle age, survived
until some time during the night. A
funeral was conducted at the
home Tuesday afternoon, in charge of
the R. D. Westbrook of Buffalo, and
the burial was made in the family pot
at Semple Hill cemetery.
The family had been afflicted with a
serious epidemi of influenza which in
the cases of the two men resulted in
pneumonia. Harlan Bowen's conditon
was considered somewhat serious about
the middle of last week, but he seemed
to recover and on Thursday last Wil-
liam Bowen addressed a letter to his
daughter in which he stated that he
thought the worst was over, referring
to his son's sickness. The older gen-
tlemen's health was so vigorous that
the sickness did not cause alarm until
the latter part of the week when some
symptoms of pneumonia developed.
William Bower was born at Henriet-
ta, Monroe county, N.Y., September 8,,
1921. His father's name was Darius
Bowen and the parents of William
moved into Randolph aboout 1827. The
older generation was among the very
first to settle in this township, and
since that time this section has been
the home of the family In 1847, on
March 16, William Bowen was united
in marriage with Miss Harriette Hitch-
cock, and to them have been born seven
children; Elsie J Hildom of Chicago;
Addie Adailine of Bradford; Harlan,
who died Sunday; Otis F., of Ran-
dolph; Olive E. Woodmancy of Cold-
en; Milan of Washington. The family
was all present at the funeral except
Mrs.. Hildom.
The double fatility marks the first
death in William Bowen's family, and
that is all the more singular for one so
advanced in age when it is known tat
but one death has occurred in the
families, composed as they are
of severa children each. Mr. Bowen
has been in very vigorous health, and
only last month he walked three miles
to visit with some friends. He occu-
pied his time with the lighter forms of
farm work and kept regular hours for
sleep and refreshment.

William + HITCHCOCK, Harriet. Harriet was born in Mar 1825 in New York; died about Apr 1913 in Randolph, Cattaraugus County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]