Sarah Ann Rees 1858 - 1934

[roycymru]

Hi

She must have emigrated 1881-1882. She is still with her parents in the UK 1881 census at Waunfawr but under her middle name Ann. The gravestone link provided earlier has her marrying William J. Bowen on 8 Sep 1882 in Blossburg, Pennsylvania.

1881 at Waunfawr

John Rees, Head, 54, Farmer of 44 acres
Margaret Rees (nee Evans), wife, 53
Ann Rees, Dau, 22, dressmaker,
Mary Griffiths, G. Dau. 6

Mary Griffiths actually Mary Ann Griffiths (1875-1897) is the daughter of Joseph Griffiths (1854-1903) and Sarah Ann Rees’s sister Margaret Evans (1854-1877).

John Rees is listed as Margaret Evans’s father (although her surname is Evans) on her marriage certificate to Joseph Griffiths. I and others have searched but not been able to find Margaret Evans birth record. She is actually listed as born Merthyr Tydfil. The assumption is she was conceived out of wedlock and her mother Margaret was “sent away” during the pregnancy to unknown relatives in Merthyr and gave birth to her daughter Margaret there.

Joseph Griffiths is my 2nd great uncle.

[*Sandra*]

Will post the obits for the Bowen family, they are interesting to have and the US ones show lots of details.

Obit - Sarah Ann Rees/Bowen

The Wellsboro Gazette Combined with Mansfield Advertiser Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
13 Jun 1934, Wed    Page 1

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461435/sarah-ann-bowen-13-june-1934/

Star-Gazette Elmira, New York
9 Jun 1934, Sat    Page 13

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461468/obituary-for-sarah-ann-evans-aged-75/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Obit - son Roy Stephen Bowen -

Mansfield Advertiser Mansfield, Pennsylvania 21 Sep 1966, Wed    Page 2

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461484/obituary-for-roy-s-bowen-1898-1966/


FIND A GRAVE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115408264/roy-stephen-bowen

Wife Hazel - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115408289/hazel-rose-bowen

Daughter - Marie Ann Bowen Wallace

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145883554/marie-ann-wallace

husband of Maria - Donald Adair Wallace.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145883363/donald-adair-wallace

Sandra

[roycymru]

People have been busy responding while I was typing up my post. Thank you for all the excellent info. Mary Ann Griffiths is buried with her mother and a sister Margaret Ann, who died young, at Caersalem, Pontyberem (see attached)

[roycymru]

The attached!!

[*Sandra*]

Obit for the wife of Roy Stephen Bowen.

Star-Gazette Elmira, New York 15 Jun 1993, Tue    Page 8

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461506/obituary-for-hazel-r-english-bowen/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

son of Sarah and William  - Jay N Bowen

Star-Gazette Elmira, New York 12 Apr 1966, Tue    Page 14

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461533/obituary-for-jay-n-bowen-aged-81/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

son of Jay N Bowen (as above) and Gertrude

Star-Gazette Elmira, New York 31 Jan 1990, Wed    Page 12

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461567/obituary-for-gordon-bowen-norman/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

daughter of Jay N Bowen and Gertrude

The Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee 8 Feb 2015, Sun    Page A13

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/71461583/obituary-for-faye-irene-bowen-aged-70/

Sandra