Elizabeth M. "Lizzie" Meyer^[1]

1844 - 1927  (83 years)

• Name	Elizabeth M. "Lizzie" Meyer
  Born	17 May 1844	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Eliza Meyer
  Name	Elizabeth M. "Lizzie" Bowman
  Residence	60 Church St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Residence	1861	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Lutheran
  Residence	1862	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Residence	1871	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	United Brethren
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	United Bretheren
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	United Brethren
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Methodist
  Eby ID Number	00078-4741
  Died	20 Nov 1927	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10, 11]
  Buried	Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  Person ID	I13409	Generations
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Councillor - Justice of the Peace John N. Meyer,   b. 21 Aug 1808, , Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 8 Aug 1883, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Mary Wenger,   b. 28 Apr 1814, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 Mar 1868, Near Heidelberg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F3675	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rev. Isaac L. Bowman,   b. 23 May 1830, Near Freeport, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Feb 1893, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 62 years)
  Married	25 Dec 1862	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 4, 8, 9, 12]
  Children	1. Leander Meyer Bowman,   b. 29 Dec 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Sep 1896, Pettit, York Co., Ontario  (Age 32 years)   2. Arthur Bowman,   b. 5 Aug 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Franklin Bowman,   b. 2 Sep 1870, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Alderman Hervey Meyers Bowman,   b. 30 Sep 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Apr 1931, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 57 years)
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2025
  Family ID	F2242	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Elizabeth Meyer, "was born May 17th, 1844. She was married to the late Isaac L. Bowman. Her place of residence is on Church Street, Berlin, Ontario. Her family consists of four sons" Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. _____________ ANOTHER PIONEER CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bowman Passes In Kitchener; Father Came From Pennsylvania The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer Bowman, who was known also to many by: the name Mrs. Isaac L. Bowman, occurred yesterday at 5.15 a.m. The death of Mrs. Bowman removes another of the scanty group whose life and experiences reach backward to the pioneer stage of Waterloo county. The deceased was a daughter of John Meyer, who for many years was reeve and councillor of the Township of Woolwich and an active figure in county affairs at the time of the selection of the county seat. He was born near Loganville,, York county, Penn., on August 21, 1808 and arrived in Canada on April 15, 1832, married Mary Wenger May 13, 1834, and moved on his farm in Woolwich, and died in St. Jacobs August 8, 1883. His Woolwich homestead, now owned by Menno Brubacher, was on the south side of the St. Clements-Heidelberg highway about a mile east of Heidelberg. The original patentee of this farm from the Crown, after making a small clearing and erecting a log house, soon sold the place to Mr. Meyer, In this primitive habitation Mrs. Bowman, now deceased, was born on May 17, 1844. Her father completed the clearing of the farm and in 1849 he erected in the Pennsylvanian style to which he was accustomed from his youth the substantial stone house which with no material alteration still forms the dwelling of Mr. Brubacher. Mr. Bowman, the husband of the deceased, was in later life a public school teacher and inspector, an academy principal and provincial land surveyor. But from his sixteenth to his twentieth year he gathered the means as a carpenter for his studies at Rockwood Academy (1850-1851) and Oberlin College, Ohio (1852-1856). As a carpenter he assisted in the erection of Mr. Meyer's stone dwelling in 1849. It is of human interest to note that in the course of the erection of this building Mrs. Bowman as a girl of five first formed the acquaintance of Mr. Bowman whom 14 years later she married. In the spring of 1857 the deceased, then a girl of 13, accompanied an elder brother Eliab, who died at Woodbine, Iowa, June 27, 1927, aged 90 and sister Louisiana to Northwestern Illinois. Here she lived for three years near Lena, Stephenson county before the outbreak of the Civil War, returning at the close of 1859. This was the period of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, second of which place on August 27 1853, at Freeport the neighboring county scat of Stephenson county. On Christmas Day 1862, three years after her return to Canada, the late Mrs. Bowman. For year their home was on the west side of Preston road near Dellvue, the site later of the Eden near family home. Some the apple trees at this place were of Mrs. Bowman's planting some sixty years ago, she wife holding them erect while young Mr. Bowman set them firmly in the earth. Next the young couple resided for several years directly across the road to the house subsequently by Mr. Strickland. In 1866-67 Mr. Bowman undertook the opening and principalship of a boarding school and academy at Freeport for the Freeport Educational Society. This Academy formed the home of Mrs. Bowman until 1872, when he resigned the principalship and entered upon the practice of land surveying in Berlin. In Berlin Mrs. Bowman lived until 1877 in the house now owned by Mr. Lehman at 73 Petersburg, now Highland, Road, then for a year in a house now removed at the corner of Benton street and Courtland Avenue and finally in the spring of 1873 she moved with her husband into the residence at 60 Church street which has been her home for 50 years less months. Mr. Bowman died Feb. 3, 1893 and was buried at Blair, where his grandfather Rev. Joseph Bowman (1766-1849) coming from Berks county, Pa., with seven sons and five daughters, established the ancestral home of the family in 1816. Mrs. Bowman became a member of the United Brethren church following revival in the church at Freeport about 65 years ago. Her Christian life like that of her deceased husband was one of serene and absolute faith. While her age and strength permitted, she was active as a teacher of the pioneer type she exercised to the full the virtue of hospitality. She is survived by three sons: Arthur, an architectural engineer, Pittsburg, Pa.. Franklin, Vice president of the Blaw-Knox Company, Pittsburg and Harvey M. Bowman ex-alderman of this city. The oldest son, Leander, died as sanitary inspector of the city of Toronto in 1895, and is survived by a son Hugh of the Imperial Life Insurance Co. of Toronto. Mrs. Bowman also leaves two brothers and three sisters: Isaac of Hampton, Iowa, aged 88; Marian (Mrs. Freeland) of Grand Rapids, Mich., aged 86:; Hannah (Mrs. Aaron C. Bowman) of Hastings, Mich., aged 81; Barbara (Mrs. Wendel C. Bowman) of Merritt, Mich., Aged 78; and John of Peterboro, Ont., aged 76. The funeral will take place on Tuesday. There will be service at her late residence, 60 Church street at 1.30 P.M. thence to the Alma St. U. B. Church, and to Blair cemetery. The Daily Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Mon, Nov 21, 1927 Page 1 & 3

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 87. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 107. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div 1 Page 32. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. Isaac L. Bowman b. Waterloo res: Waterloo Age: 30 born abt 1832 father: John mother: Nancy married Elizabeth Meyer Age:: 19 born abt 1843 b. Woolwich Township Spouse res: Woolwich Township father: John mother: Mary married 25 Dec 1862 county: Waterloo [S141] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1851, Div. 3, Pg. 8. [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 33 Pg. 5. [S915] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1861, Township of Woolwich 1861 Div. 2 Page 20. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 3 Page 13. [S2767] aaaWaterloo Township 1871 South, Sect. 2 Page 45. [S34] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Blair CC#4501 Internet Link. [S34] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Blair CC#4501 Internet Link. West: In/ memory of/ Isaac L. Bowman/ born/ May 23rd 1830/ died Feb. 3rd 1893/ whosoever believeth in Me/ shall never die/ Bowman A. M.B. East: Elizabeth M./ Bowman/ born May 17, 1844/ died Nov. 20, 1927 South: In/ memory of/ Leander Meyer/ Bowman/ born/ Dec. 29th 1863/ died/ Sep. 20th 1895 North: Hervey (sic) M./ Bowman/ born Sept. 30, 1873/ died Apr. 30, 1931 [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 08 Jan 1863. 25 Dec 1862 By Rev. Stahlschmidt, Isaak L. Baumann of Waterloo was married to Elisabeth Moyer of Woolwich.

  
  

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  Born - 17 May 1844 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1862 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 25 Dec 1862 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Brethren - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Bretheren - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Brethren - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 20 Nov 1927 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth