Notes:

Florence Tilton Sowers graduated from Bellefontaine High School in 1909. The June 8, 1909 edition of the Bellefontaine Examiner lists her as a graduate. She stayed in Bellefontaine during the week with an uncle and aunt Milton and Jennie M nle she attended high school. After graduation, Mabel thinks she took a Patterson exam to qualify as a teacher. She taught school in a one-room school located somewhere on what is now Ludlow Road south of Bellefontaine.


Obituary, Florence Tilton Sowers, Bellefontaine Examiner, dtg. October 19, 1972.
MRS. FRED SOWERS
The death of Mrs. Fred (Florence Mabel) Sowers, 81, 1104 Erie Street, occurred at 10:25 p.m. Wednesday at the Latham Care Center, Inc. where she had been a patient since 1971. Death followed a long illness.
Mrs. Sowers was born in Casstown, Ind. July 28, 1891, a daughter of John W. and Rosanna Henderson Tilton. She was a member of the United Church of Christ in West Liberty.
On Feb. 14, 1914, the deceased was married in West Liberty, to Mr. Sowers who survives with a son, John F. Sowers, R. 4 Bellefontaine; two daughters, Mrs. Gorden (Mabel) Graham, R. 1 Bellefontaine, and Mrs. Wilbur (Mildred) Allender, Springfield , seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, and a brother, George Tilton, R. 2 Huntsville. Three brothers and one sister are dead.
Funeral services in charge of Rev. Milton Sumerel, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Eicholtz funeral home and burial will follow in Fairview cemetery, West Liberty.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

Florence married Fred John Sowers on 14 Feb 1914 in West Liberty, Ohio. Fred (son of John W. Sowers and Mary Eliza Crowl) was born on 16 Mar 1892 in Liberty Township, Logan County Ohio; died on 19 Oct 1980 in Bellefontaine, Ohio; was buried on 22 Oct 1980 in West Liberty Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mabel Florence Sowers was born on 16 Dec 1915 in Logan County, Ohio; died on 26 Mar 1994 in Bellefontaine, Logan County OH; was buried in Mar 1994 in Zanesfield, Logan County OH.
2. Mildred Irene Sowers
3. John Fred Sowers