Margaret Bower

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• Name	Margaret Bower
  Enslaved	1809 Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA [1]  –  Enslaved by the Calmes Family until 1862
  Born	1810 Berryville, Clarke, Virginia, USA [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Self-Emancipated/ Escaped Slave/ Runaway	27 Jun 1862 Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA [1]  –  Escaped by leave of General Geary's army went north to Greencastle, remained there a few weeks, left for Chambersburg, next for Carlisle, and then to Harrisburg."
  Name	Margaret A Adams [4, 5, 6]
  Name	Margaret Bour [2, 3, 7]
  Residence	1863 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [1]
  Residence	1865 Elmira, Chemung, New York, USA [4]  –  Relation to Head of House: Wife
  Died	Mar 1894 Berryville, Clarke, Virginia, USA [8]
  Buried	​ Elmira, Chemung, New York, USA
  Person ID	I4745 SOALsearch
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024

  
  
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  Father	George Fielding Calmes (Age 74 years) b. 15 Nov 1798, Frederick, Virginia, USA d. 17 May 1873, Clarke, Virginia, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	guardian
  Family ID	F6909 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Peter Adams (Age 73 years) b. 1810, Berryville, Clarke, Virginia, USA d. 1883, Chemung, New York, USA (Age 73 years)
  Children	1. Horace Adams (Age 47 years) b. 1844, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA d. 18 Jul 1891, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 47 years)  [natural]   2. Cornelius Adams b. Abt 1853, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA  [natural]   3. Robert W. Adams, I (Age 73 years) b. May 1833, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA d. 27 May 1906, Binghamton, Broome, New York, USA (Age 73 years)  [natural]   4. Newton Adams b. Abt 1849, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA  [natural]   5. Harriet Adams b. 16 Aug 1851, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA  [natural]   6. Maggie Adams b. 1855, Clarke, Virginia, USA  [natural]   7. Aaron A. Adams b. 1845, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA  [natural]   8. Reverend John Quincy Adams, I (Age 80 years) b. 1837, Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA d. 12 Jan 1917, 102 Cherry, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F1573 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S4396] Adams, John Quincy , Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/adams/adams.html [S2] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 000851-003910. Record for Margaret Bour https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=5164&h=750538446&indiv=try [S2] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 000851-003910. [S1883] New York, U.S., State Census, 1865, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S1882] New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Wills, 1836-1923; Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (Chemung County). [S331] U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874; ARC Identifier: 566522; Record Group Number: 101; Record Group: Records of the Office of the. [S99] Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). [S3861] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 14 Mar 1894 - Page 1, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 14 Mar 1894;), Death of Mrs. Horace Adams and Mother of J.Q. and Horace Adams in Berryville -13 Mar 1894 14 Mar 1894. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100506317/death-of-mrs-horace-adams-and-mother/?xid=637