CORNING JOURNAL

13 January 1887

Corning, New York

WILLIAM J. ROWLEY

Addison Advertiser, Addison, NY:
William J. Rowley, Carbondale, Pa., a native of Addison, died aged seventy-four, at the Danville, Pa., Asylum. He was for twenty years a resident of Carbondale, employed by the D. & H. Canal Co. His illness dated from three years ago when he stood by his son George as a circular saw burst, and killed him. The shock eventually caused insanity.

Rowley Registry Data
NAME RRN SPENCER #
William L. Rowley 17,115  
George Rowley 17,120  
From the Civil War pension abstract of Albert Rowley, we learn the actual date of death was 24 November 1886. And middle initial is "L" based on tombstone. See wife's obituary

Contributed by Ernst Spencer, 8/98.
      Abstracted by Cheron Gibson-Frazier

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