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]

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]

Notes:

Randolph NY Register - 11/2/1962

Mrs. Gladys Irene Cooper, 72, of
Messenger Road, died Tuesday
morning, Oct. 30, 1962, In her
home. She had been in poor
health for nearly 15 years.
She was born Nov. 17, 1889. in
the Town of Randolph, a daughter
of Otis and Hatie Thomas Bowen.
The Bowen family settled in the
Sample Hill area of the town in
the early 1800s.
was married to Orlow
Cooper, who survives. She had
lived is Washington, D. C, before
she ssoved to the village 17 year*
age. In Washington, she was employed
as a stenographer and as
editor of the Atlantic Union
Gleaner, a denominational publica-
tion. She was a member of the
Randolph Seventh Day Adventist
Church.
In addition to her husband she
is survived by a brother, Ruland
Bowen, of Collegedale, Tenn.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Thursday at the Randolph
Seventh Day Adventist Church
with Elder Douglas Logan of-
ficiating. Burial was in the Sample
Hill Cemetery. Myers Funeral
Home was in charge of arrange-
ments.

Family/Spouse: COOPER, Orlow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]