Caroline Weaver ^{1 2}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Goshen Township, Mahoning, OH on 5 October 1850. ²

1850 US Census
Page 563A, District 95, Dwelling 1610, Family 1610
Goshen Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
Caroline Bowman..30..PA
(Living with husband.)
.

Caroline married John Jacob Bowman, son of Christian Bowman and Elizabeth Kreager, before 1850. (John Jacob Bowman was born on 7 April 1807 in Ohio,^{1 3 4 5} died on 24 September 1871 in Green Township, Mahoning, OH ^{1 6} and was buried after 24 September 1871 in Ellsworth, OH ¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Goshen Township, Mahoning, OH on 5 October 1850. ²

1850 US Census
Page 563A, District 95, Dwelling 1610, Family 1610
Goshen Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
John J. Bowman..40..OH..Farmer
Caroline Bowman..30..PA
.

  Marriage Notes:

The name of John Jacob Bowman has been easily confused by other researchers with another John Jacob Bowman born only 3 years later in the same general area. In addition, there was at least one other John Bowman living in the same county in the next decade or two.

Even the 1850 census which shows a John Bowman with wife named Caroline, presumably Caroline Weaver, seems questionable if this is the correct John Bowman. The 1850 census indicates John's birth year of about 1810 which was 3 years after this John Bowman, but matches the other John Jacob Bowman, who was the son of John Jacob Bowman, Sr. and Charlotte Stough. The major differences between the two seems to be that this one tended to stay in Mahoning County, Ohio whereas the one born to Charlotte Stough spent many years in Columbiana County, Ohio and eventually moved to Noble County, Indiana. Those facts alone make me believe that the 1850 census from Mahoning County applies to this John Jacob Bowman, son of Christian Bowman, even though the census makes it seem that he was born 3 years later than believed.
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