Robert Taylor Bowers

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"Elizabethton Star," Friday, August 9, 1929
BOWERS RITES ON SATURDAY
Robert T. Bowers, 49 years of age, Charity Hill community, died yesterday at 3 p.m., from gangrene poisoning caused by the bursting of his appendix, at the Goss Hospital, Johnson City.
Funeral services for Bowers are to be held at the Charity Hill Baptist Church Saturday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Clarence Howington and Judge W. R. Allen in charge. Interment is to be in the Bowers Cemetery in that community.
The deceased has been a life long resident of Carter County. He was taken from the Bemberg plant suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis about 1 o'clock last Saturday. He was operated on soon after reaching the hospital, but the appendix had already bursted[sic] and the poison had spread over the system.
Bowers was a very active member of the local chapter of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He has a large number of relatives in Carter County and was very popular in the community in which he lived.

Robert married Sarah H. (Bowers) about 1902 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Sarah was born about 1880; died about 1920 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Bowers Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]