Family (this is geneology to say)

Bowens from the 1690s,
Benedicts from the 1620s.

The name Bowen relating L to former Gov Otis Bowen
This line (which is my father's side) coming to northern Indiana in1835, a few months before that area opened up.

Although the time of the Benedicts coming to Indiana I do not know, the Voreises came -- as the Bowens -- the 1830s. A large boulder with a plaque sits beside SR 110 leading into Culver with the names of the first six families. V. being one of them. Bigley of the Maxinkuckee Bigley Orchards is also on that plaque.
The story is that a small wagon train was passing through that area: In the morning the milk-giving cow was being rounded up; (small children in the caravan, you know). The individual out looking for the cow saw a lake. What was later to be named Lake Maxinkuckee. Aha!, the group decided to seek no further for a place to settle.

These were my grandFATHER'S people. Benedict being the family of my mother's mother.

My parents met at Manchester College. Dad's sister roomed down the hall from Mother. Although it was eight years later when they began to court. Walking across campus one day they caught sight of....

Somehow Mother had maintained ties there. A brother of my father's was by then attending there.

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