Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Ralph Alden BOWSHER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 5 Apr 1904 in Trenton, Wayne Co, Michigan b
  • Death: 30 Mar 1994 in Lima, Ohio d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Fonda Alden BOWSHER Birth: 5 Jul 1874 in Lima, Ohio Death: 2 Jan 1937 in Gallipolis, Gallia Co, Ohio
    • Mother:
  • May DUSABLON Birth: 23 Apr 1873 in Trenton, Michigan Death: 5 Sep 1955 in Lima, Allen Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Living BOWSHER
  2. Living BOWSHER
  3. Living BOWSHER
  4. Ronald David BOWSHER Birth: 8 May 1948 in Lima, Allen Co, Ohio Death: 2 Aug 1989 in Lima, Allen Co, Ohio

Bibliography
  1. Burkhardt, Franklin A, The BOUCHER Family, Francis E Burkhardt Press, New York, 1917. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005712838 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p[0-9f]*].
  2. Bowsher, Kay, BOWSHER Family, private email, 9/10/2001. Author address qddusa at yahoo dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
parents:
[Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p327]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
place:
Lima, Ohio [Ref: Burkhardt BOUCHER p327]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]
Sources with Information about marriage to Cordelia Alethea DIXON
date:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
place:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001],
child:
[Ref: Kay Bowsher 9/10/2001]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Ralph Alden BOWSHER
                                     /-----Johan Daniel BOUCHER
                            /-----William BOWSHER
                           |         \-----Anna Maria (BOUCHER)
                   /-----Isaac BOWSHER
                  |         \-----Sabina SMITH
          /-----Elias BOWSHER
         |        |                  /-----Peter DUNKEL
         |        |         /-----Johannes DUNKEL
         |        |        |         \-----Anna Catherine (DUNKEL)
         |         \-----Anna Elizabeth DUNKEL
         |                 |         /-----George MERKEL
         |                  \-----Anna Elizabeth MERKEL
         |                           \-----Christena HILL
 /-----Fonda Alden BOWSHER
|        |                  /-----Thomas DODSON
|        |         /-----Charles DOTSON
|        |        |         \-----Catherine BRONCHER
|         \-----Mary DOTSON
|                 |                           /-----Johan Adam DEFENBAUGH
|                 |                  /-----George DEFENBAUGH
|                 |                 |         \-----Maria Sybilla KOBEL
|                 |         /-----Daniel DEFENBAUGH
|                 |        |         \-----Eva Mary Magdalena KAPP
|                  \-----Mary Magdalena DEFENBAUGH
|                          |         /-----Peter CULP
|                           \-----Hannah CULP
|                                    \-----Mary HEINLY
Ralph Alden BOWSHER
|         /-----William DUSABLON
 \-----May DUSABLON
          \-----Josephine SWOPE



Descendants of Ralph Alden BOWSHER
1. Ralph Alden BOWSHER m. Cordelia Alethea DIXON
m. Cordelia Alethea DIXON father: Herman DIXON mother: Della May (DIXON)

2nd generation

2. Living BOWSHER m. Living JORDAN
m. Living JORDAN father: Ottis Lee JORDAN mother: Nellie Mae JACKSON
3. Living BOWSHER m. Living MODICA
m. Living MODICA father: James MODICA mother: Neusa SHORTINO
4. Living BOWSHER m. Living SHRIDER
m. Living SHRIDER
5. Ronald David BOWSHER m. Living REDDING
m. Living REDDING father: Floyd Jack REDDING mother: Mary Martha BERGFELD