This website presents information and images related to the ancestral branches of the Bowers and Schmidt family that lived in the Peoria, Illinois area from the early 1960s through the early 2020s.
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1667 Dec 25 - John Thompson III born in Mendon, Worchester Co., MA. (358 years ago)
1825 Dec 27 - Conrad Lohr born in Blankenheim, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hessen, Germany. (200 years ago)
1836 Dec 11 - Sarah Harriett Clouser born in Berks Co., PA. (189 years ago)
1877 Dec 27 - Margaret Brandau born in Niederellenbach, Germany. (148 years ago)
1879 Dec 11 - Susannah (Dodge) Reynolds died in Hebron, Jefferson Co., WI, 68 years old. (146 years ago)