Luima C. Bowers married Carrie Louise Weiss.

According to their marriage certificate (see below), Luima Bowers was the son of William Bowers and Catherine (Laughlin) Bowers. Luima was born in Seven Mile, Ohio on April 21, 1879.

Carrie (Weiss) Bowers was the middle child (oldest daughter) of Ignaz Weiss and Louisa (Kolb) Weiss. According to their marriage certificate, Carrie was born June 12, 1881 in Darrtown, Ohio.

Four children were born to the union of Luima Bowers and Carrie (Weiss) Bowers: Ruth, Luella, William, and Donald.

Unless indicated otherwise, all the news clippings and photos on this page were acquired from scrapbooks and photo albums that were contributed by William Marc Bowers, great, great grandson of Ignaz Weiss.

Luima and Carrie Bowers

Luima Bowers - farmer and steam engine operator

L.C. Bowers is shown seated on his steam engine in the photo above. L.C. Used this engine to power the threshing machine that he provided to several Collinsville and Seven Mile area threshing rings.

The image above, which shows farmers harvesting a grain crop and building a straw stack, appeared in the "Remember When" section of the Hamilton Journal News. The caption that accompanied the article reported the photo was taken in 1920, on the Jacob Zeigler farm on Taylor School Road.

he photograph at the left and the following news article appeared in the Hamilton Journal News in October, 1964.

"LUIMA AND CARRIE BOWERS CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bowers, Collinsville, will observe their golden wedding anniversary October 28.

Mr. Bowers and the former Carrie Weiss were married October 28, 1914 in the Lutheran Church, Oxford. They have been lifelong residents of Butler County, where Mr. Bowers was engaged in farming and threshing, until his retirement several years ago.

They have four children, Mrs. Arthur (Ruth) Schuster, Scott Road, Oxford; Mrs. Donald (Luella) Irwin of the Virgin Islands; William Bowers, Eaton; and Donald Bowers, Jeffersonville, Ohio. Six grandchildren and one great-grandson complete the family circle.

A family get-together will be held on Sunday, November 1; however, no formal celebration is planned, because of Mr. Bower’s health."