NameClifford Bowman, 3C2R
Birth17 Jul 1909, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death7 Jul 1984, Shelby, Richland Co., Ohio
Marriage1931, Rowan Co., Kentucky
SpouseVada Alfrey
Birth20 Nov 1915, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Birth Memodate from Kentucky birth index
Birth16 Oct 1914, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Birth Memodate from Social Security and death records
Death17 Apr 2000, Crestline, Crawford Co., Ohio
Children
Birth3 Mar 1938, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death22 Aug 2011, Reynoldsburg, Franklin Co., Ohio
Notes for Clifford Bowman
The SSDI lists Clifford Bowman, born 17 July 1909, died July 1984, last residence Crestline, Crawford Co., Ohio, SSN issued in Kentucky before 1951.
The Ohio deaths database lists Cliffor Bowmana, age 74, born in Kentucky, died 7 July 1984 in Shelby, Richland Co., Ohio, residence Crestline, Crawford Co., Ohio, married.
Notes for Vada Alfrey
The Kentucky birth index lists Vada Alfrey, born 20 Nov 1914 in Breathitt Co. (a misindexing of Rowan Co.
11), mother’s maiden name Emma Sidsom.
The SSDI lists Vada Bowman, born 16 Oct 1914, died 17 Apr 2000, last residence Crestline, Crawford Co., Ohio.
The Ohio death index lists Vada Bowman, born 16 Oct 1914 in Kentucky, died 16 Apr 2000 in Galion Community Hospital, Crawford Co., Ohio, widowed, father’s surname Alfrey, mother’s maiden name Stidham.
Census
In 1930 she was listed as Vada Alfrey, age 15, niece, with her mother’s brother Charley Stidham and his wife Cynthia. (Her father was still living, but her mother died when she was five years old.)
Census Notes for Clifford & Vada (Family)
1940 census of Rowan Co., Ky, ED 103-6, enumerated 22 April, lists on p. 10A as family #167, on Lower Lick Fork:
Bowman, Clifford, 31, stave driver road & bridge construction; Vada, wife, 25; William Lee, son, 8; Virgil, son, 6; Ernest Earl, son, 2. All born in Kentucky, living in rural Rowan Co. in 1935.
The next household is headed by Vada’s father, with a second wife Cordia.