Clara Belle Colby
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Name Clara Belle Colby [1] Birth 13 Apr 1878 , Kent, Michigan, United States [1]
Gender Female Cemetery 1961 Greenhill Cemetery, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States [1]
Headstone 1961 [1] Burial 1961 Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States [1]
Address:
Greenhill Cemetery
Laramie, Wyoming
United States
https://www.cityoflaramie.org/index.aspx?NID=118Death 19 Jan 1961 Thermopolis, Hot Springs, Wyoming, United States [1]
Age 82 years Patriarch & Matriarch William Warner Colby, b. 17 Aug 1845,, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United Statesd. 20 Aug 1929, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States
(Age 84 years) (Father)
Rosetta Jane Lovejoy, b. 3 Oct 1853, Clear Lake, Steuben, Indiana, United Statesd. 15 May 1909, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States
(Age 55 years) (Mother)
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Person ID I36373 My Genealogy Last Modified 19 Aug 2017
Father William Warner Colby, b. 17 Aug 1845, , Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States d. 20 Aug 1929, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States
(Age 84 years)
Mother Rosetta Jane Lovejoy, b. 3 Oct 1853, Clear Lake, Steuben, Indiana, United States d. 15 May 1909, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States
(Age 55 years)
Family ID F14423 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elmer Ellsworth Bowman, b. 1 Sep 1881, , , Iowa, United States d. 22 Mar 1931 (Age 49 years)
Marriage 22 Oct 1902 Age at Marriage She : 24 years and 6 months - He : 21 years and 1 month. _STAT Divorced Children
1 son and 2 daughters Last Modified 19 Aug 2017 Family ID F14422 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Birth - 13 Apr 1878 - , Kent, Michigan, United States Cemetery - 1961 - Greenhill Cemetery, Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United States Burial - Address:
Greenhill Cemetery
Laramie, Wyoming
United States
https://www.cityoflaramie.org/index.aspx?NID=118 - 1961 - Laramie, Albany, Wyoming, United StatesDeath - 19 Jan 1961 - Thermopolis, Hot Springs, Wyoming, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S14] John Tipton, Find A Grave, (www.findagrave.com, 2012), 19 Aug 2017, Clara Belle Colby BOWMAN, Memorial #76217268 (Reliability: 3).
Birth: Apr. 13, 1878
Kent County
Michigan, USA
Death: Jan. 19, 1961
Thermopolis
Hot Springs County
Wyoming, USA
Clara Belle Colby Bowman was born in Kent, Michigan, April 13, 1878, daughter of William W. Colby and Rosetta Lovejoy Colby. Her parents moved to Nebraska where she married Elmer E. Bowman October 22, 1902. With her husband and parents, she moved to Laramie, Wyoming soon after.
She attended the University of Nebraska from 1889 to 1900, and received her normal diploma from the University of Wyoming in 1912. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the same university in 1917, and the master's degree in 1929.
She taught from 1895 to 1945 in various high schools and grade schools in Wyoming and Nebraska. She was a member of the faculty of the University of Wyoming from1919 to 1931, and principal of the Cody Junior High School from 1932 to 1938.
She was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society, and Kappa Delta Phi, a national education society.
Mrs. Bowman held several records in the field of education. She was the first student in Wyoming to take courses being organized on the retarded child, the first in the state to administer the Binet Intelligence Test to students, and the first to receive a bachelor's degree in elementary education in Wyoming.
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Parents:
William Warner Colby (1845 - 1929)
Rossetta Jane Lovejoy Colby (1853 - 1909)
Spouse:
Elmer Ellsworth Bowman (1881 - 1931)*
Children:
Maurine Bowman (1904 - 1904)*
Elmer Colby Bowman (1905 - 1905)*
Hazel Minerva Bowman Kerper (1906 - 1975)*
Siblings:
Emma Mae Colby (1876 - 1877)*
Clara Belle Colby Bowman (1878 - 1961)
Hannah Mable Colby (1884 - 1885)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Greenhill Cemetery
Laramie
Albany County
Wyoming, USA
Plot: Row D Lot 21 Space 3
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Maintained by: Linda Guynup Dewey
Originally Created by: Lostnwyomn
Record added: Sep 08, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 76217268
- [S14] John Tipton, Find A Grave, (www.findagrave.com, 2012), 19 Aug 2017, Clara Belle Colby BOWMAN, Memorial #76217268 (Reliability: 3).