One other item. I did a search in this blog for Bowen, and found a mention in one of my posts about Nancy Hawkins of Jay County: “The Prophet Joseph headed north toward Winchester to visit the Saints and assure them that he was alive. The Bowen family lived on Arba Pike near Winchester at that time, and family tradition says that Joseph Smith visited the Bowen house.”

Do you know anything about that or where the information might have come from? I didn’t see any reference to this in that 1914 family centennial book.

I’m glad you found this. I hadn’t known about the book, but see that it is online at archive.org. I like the way that 1913 reunion treated places on the old family farm, by putting out markers explaining the significance of various spots. Do you know if any of that information still survives? Is the farm still in the family?

If you were to go back there, are there any specific things to see that link to the settlement era days? The pike itself does, of course.