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- Beulah Bowser, my great, great grandma, was born October 11, 1894. She was one of eight children. She went to school in a one-room school on Steltz Road in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. She lived on a farm and learned how to cook, bake, plant and can foods , and work in the farm fields. She knew how to speak Dutch very well. she and her family always went to church on Sunday. At the age of 17, Beaulah started her first job. She was a traveling nanny who took care of families' entire households after they had babies. She married Clinton Dubbs when she was 20 ½ years old. When my great, great grandpa wanted to see my great, great grandma he would walk five miles to see her. They had ten children. On of their sons died of whooping cough at five months. One day my great, great grandma was walking home from the dentist's office and some teenagers were playing really loud music. She could not hear the train that was coming and stepped out in front of it. she was killed instantly. She died on November 21, 1936. She was only 42.
Madelyn Robinson, 2007
My great grandma, Beulah Mae Bowser was born on October 11, 1894, the first of eight children. Her parents were James and Phoebe Bowser.
She attended Gerbrick's one room school house outside of New Freedom, Pennsylvania. She learned how to cook, bake, plant and can foods, and work in the fields when she was very young. Beulah could speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but her children never learned it. Her mother was very good at sewing, and taught Beulah how to do it too. She joined Fissels Church. Beulah and her brothers and sisters all sang in the choir.
Her job was taking care of households after a baby was born, which she started when she was seventeen years old. She started dating my great grandpa, Clinton Dubbs. They got married in early April 1915.
Their first home together was on Church Street in Glen Rock, but then later moved to Hanover Street, where they had their first four children. They had the five youngest, all brothers, on Valley Street where they moved to for the last time. They had another boy, Roy Clinton, but at five months of age, he died of whooping cough. Beulah taught all of her nine children to pray before meals and bedtime. She was busy all the time, but never said one complaint about her little time for rest or sleep.
She left the dentist office on Saturday, November 21, 1936 and walked by the railroad tracks to shop at the town. Across the street, there was a band of really loud, young people playing, and she didn't hear the whistle of a train coming her way. She was killed right away when she stepped in front of it, and she was only 42 years old. Beulah was buried in Lutheran Cemetery in Glen Rock. She lived a fairly short life, and many people missed her.
Hannah Robinson, 2011
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