Stephen Bowerman

Stephen Bowerman was born March 13, 1799, to Thomas Bowerman and Maturah Bull. On Friday, December 18, 1818, he married Phoebe Garrett in a triple wedding:

At Battle Creek, Michigan, Stephen and Phoebe were married at the "Big White House" on the same day on which were married William Garrett (Phoebe's brother) and Patience Bull, and Townsend Garrett and Sally Bowerman. That was an occasion not to he overlooked. It was an early "triple-alliance" and demanded ratification by the assembled neighbor-hood in the collective capacity of an old-timed charivari. That even was authentically stated by "the oldest inhabitant" never to have been sur-passed for the extravagant invention of furious fun and frolic. The vestibuled Pullmans in which the newly contracted parties began their wedding tours consisted of heavy farm waggons without springs, and furnished with large wagon chairs. When these had been taken apart and replaced in proper shape upon the ground (for the charivaring party had placed them astride the barn roof) they were free to pursue their journey over the corduroy roads leading to their various residences near Wellington, then the Township of Ameliasburg.

Stephen died December, 1862, age 63 years and 8 months.