When Solomon Bowers was born about 1844, in Putnam, Ohio, United States, his father, William P. Bowers, was 35 and his mother, Amy McClain, was 31. He married Louisa Palmer on 26 March 1860, in Allen, Ohio, United States. He died on 26 November 1863, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Oldest grave seen in the memorial list.
English: variant of Bower , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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