Vance, Beverly Carol

1961 - 2016  (55 years)

• Name	Vance, Beverly Carol
  Birth	20 Jan 1961	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Beverly C Vance in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 Name: Beverly C Vance Birth Date: 20 Jan 1961 Birth Place: Middletown, Butler State File Number: 1961001251 Additional Information: Blanton _______________ p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so the tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay. Beverly C Vance in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 Name: Beverly C Vance Birth Date: 20 Jan 1961 Birth Place: Middletown, Butler State File Number: 1961001251 Additional Information: Blanton Source Information Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Ohio Birth Records. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Vital Records Office. the day of John D. Kennedy's inauguration
  Gender	Female
  Education	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [8, 9]
  	salutatorian of her high school class; earned her associate's degree in nursing from a local community college.
  	p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot." My father Don Bowman was Mom's second husband. Mom and Dad married in 1983 and split up around the time I started walking. Mom remarried a couple years after the divorce. Dad gave me up for adoption when I was six. After the adoption, he bacame kind of a phantom for the next six years... I always felt loved when I spent time with him (Bob), which was why I found it so shocking that he "didn't want me anymore," as Mom and Mamaw told me. He had a new wife, with two small children, and I'd been replaced. p.58- Bob Hamel, my stepdad and eventual adoptive father, was a good guy in that he treated Lindsay and me kindly... a walking hillbilly stereotype.... He had two kids whom he barely saw, though they lived in Hamilton, a town ten miles south of Middletown. He was a high school dropout who drove truck for a living. When Bob became my legal father, Mom changed my name from James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel. Until then, I'd borne my father's first name as my middle name, and Mom used the adoption to erase any memory of his existence. She kept the D to preserve what had by then become a universal nickname-- J.D. ... I was now named after Uncle David, Mamaw's older, pot-smoking brother.... Any old D would have done, so long as it wasn't Donald. p.60- Mom believed deeply in the promise of education. She was the salutatorian of her high school class but never made it to collee because Lindsay was born weeks after Mom graduated from high school. But she did return to a local community college and earn an associate's degree in nursing. p.65- Bob was Mom's third husband, but the third time was not the charm.
  EducationYearbook	1977	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [6]
  	Midddletown HS, sophomores
  	20241111GHLn- Bev Vance in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 Name Bev Vance her Age ca 16 Birth abt 1961 Yearbook 1977 School Middletown High School Middletown, Ohio, USA sophomores page 251 "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977
  PictureBox	1584,2105,1883,2502  [6]
  Race	White  [5]
  Name	Bev  [10]
  Name	Bev Vance  [6]
  Name	Beverly Bowman Mrs  [11, 12]
  Name	Beverly C Bowman Mrs  [5]
  Name	Beverly C Hamel Mrs  [7]
  Name	Beverly C Lewis Mrs  [3]
  Name	Beverly C Vance  [1, 2, 4]
  	p.43 Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay.
  Name	Beverly Carol Hamel Mrs  [10]
  Residence	Wake County, North Carolina, USA   [11]
  Residence	1977	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [3, 6, 7, 12]
  	Age: ca 16
  	20241111GHLn- Bev Vance in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 Name Bev Vance her Age ca 16 Birth abt 1961 Yearbook 1977 School Middletown High School Middletown, Ohio, USA sophomores page 251 "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977
  Death	20 Jan 2016
  Person ID	I65016	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Father	Vance, James Lee sr,   b. 22 Sep 1929, Jackson, Breathitt, Kentucky, USA d. 16 Oct 1997, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Blanton, Bonnie Elois,   b. 16 Apr 1933, Jackson, Breathitt, Kentucky, USA d. 24 Apr 2005, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1947	Jackson, Breathitt, Kentucky, USA   [13, 14]
  	p. 27 of 234, iBook: "at some point in 1946, Papaw cheated on Bonnie (South) with her best friend- Mamaw. Mamaw was 13 and Papaw 16, but the affair produced a pregnancy." 20250310GHLn- James L Vance in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text only Name James L Vance Decree 19 May 1981 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Middletown, Butler Grounds Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty granted Wife Marriage 33 years Minor Children 0 Spouse Bonnie Vance Cert 17635 Volume 4567 33 years. "Mamaw and Papaw were married as teenagers in Jackson, in 1947."
  Issue, jt	Between 1948 and 1958	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [4, 13]
  	"Mamaw suffered 8 miscarriages in the decade between Uncle Jimmy's birth and my mother's."
  	"Mamaw suffered 8 miscarriages in the decade between Uncle Jimmy's birth and my mother's." p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so the tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay. "Mamaw suffered 8 miscarriages in the decade between Uncle Jimmy's birth and my mother's." p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so they tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay. "Mamaw suffered 8 miscarriages in the decade between Uncle Jimmy's birth and my mother's." p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so they tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay.
  Divorce	19 May 1981	Butler County, Ohio, USA   [14]
  	20250310GHLn- James L Vance in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text only Name James L Vance Decree 19 May 1981 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Middletown, Butler Grounds Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty granted Wife Marriage 33 years Minor Children 0 Spouse Bonnie Vance Cert 17635 Volume 4567 Minor Children: 0. To Wife: Grounds: Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty
  Family ID	F45633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Bowman, Donald Ray,   b. 15 Aug 1959, Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, USA d. 4 Nov 2023, Ohio, USA (Age 64 years)
  Divorced	29 May 1974	Wake County, North Carolina, USA   [11]
  	??
  	20241111HLn- Beverly Bowman in the North Carolina, U.S., Divorce Index, 1958-2004 text only Name Beverly Bowman Spouse Donald Bowman Marriage USA Divorce 29 May 1974 Wake, North Carolina, USA Res Wake, USA
  Marriage	2 Dec 1983	Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA   [3, 8, 9, 11, 12]
  	edited 20241111GHLn- Donald R Bowman in the Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007 Name: Ronald R Bowman Age: 24 Birth : abt 1959 Res: Butler County Spouse: Beverly C Lewis her Age: 22 her birth: abt 1961 her res county: Butler Marriage: 02 Dec 1983 license: Butler County Cert: 90955 Volume: 11875 Source Citation Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Marriage Index, 1970 and 1972-2007 Source Information Ancestry.com. Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Ohio Marriage Index, 1970 and 1972-2007. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics, 2008. p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot." My father Don Bowman was Mom's second husband. Mom and Dad married in 1983 and split up around the time I started walking. Mom remarried a couple years after the divorce. Dad gave me up for adoption when I was six. After the adoption, he bacame kind of a phantom for the next six years... I always felt loved when I spent time with him (Bob), which was why I found it so shocking that he "didn't want me anymore," as Mom and Mamaw told me. He had a new wife, with two small children, and I'd been replaced. p.58- Bob Hamel, my stepdad and eventual adoptive father, was a good guy in that he treated Lindsay and me kindly... a walking hillbilly stereotype.... He had two kids whom he barely saw, though they lived in Hamilton, a town ten miles south of Middletown. He was a high school dropout who drove truck for a living. When Bob became my legal father, Mom changed my name from James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel. Until then, I'd borne my father's first name as my middle name, and Mom used the adoption to erase any memory of his existence. She kept the D to preserve what had by then become a universal nickname-- J.D. ... I was now named after Uncle David, Mamaw's older, pot-smoking brother.... Any old D would have done, so long as it wasn't Donald. p.60- Mom believed deeply in the promise of education. She was the salutatorian of her high school class but never made it to collee because Lindsay was born weeks after Mom graduated from high school. But she did return to a local community college and earn an associate's degree in nursing. p.65- Bob was Mom's third husband, but the third time was not the charm. p.75- I had a biological half brother and half sister whom I never saw because my biological father had given me up for adoption. I had many stepbrothers and stepsisters by one measure, but only two if you limited the tally to the offspring of Mom's husband of the moment. Then there was my my biological dad's wife, and she had at least one kid, so maybe I should count him too. p.76- Lindsay Leigh was five years older than I was, born just two months after Mom graduated from high school. p 81 Linsay was a Lewis (her dad's last name), Mom took the last name of whichever husband she was married to, Mamaw and Papaw were Vances, and all of Mamaw's brothers were Blantons. ... and with Bob gone, explaining why my name was J.D. Hamel would require a few additional awkward moments. p. 82 Don Bowman, my biolgical father. my siblings, Cory and Chelsea- and I did (remember, wanting to have a farm, etc.) a little bit, so I said, "kind of." I 'knew' that Don had abandoned me because he didn't want to pay child support (or so Mom said). I knew that he was married to a woman named Cheryl, that he was tall, and that people thought I looked like him. ... He was a "Holy Roller." p. 83 Donald C. Bowman migrated from eastern Kentucky to southwet Ohio for work. After marrying and starting a family, my grandfather Bowman died suddenly, leaving behind two small children and a young wife. My grandmother remarried and Dad spent much of his childhood in eastern Kentucky with his grandparents. Her 2nd husband; he was 24, she was 22
  Divorce	8 Apr 1987	Butler, Ohio, USA   [12]
  	20241112GHLn- Donald Bowman in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text Name Donald Bowman Decree 8 Apr 1987 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Trenton, Butler Grounds Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty to Whom Wife Duration 03 years Minor Children 1 Spouse Beverly Bowman Cert 9625 Volume 5951 Save NumberOfChildren: 1 (2?)
  Children	1. Lewis, L.L.   2. Vance, J.D.
  Family ID	F45634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Hamel, R.E.
  Children	1. Vance, J.D.
  Family ID	F45635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Lewis, J.J.
  Children	1. Lewis, L.L.
  Family ID	F45636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 20 Jan 1961 - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA Education - salutatorian of her high school class; earned her associate's degree in nursing from a local community college. - - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA Divorced - ?? - 29 May 1974 - Wake County, North Carolina, USA EducationYearbook - Midddletown HS, sophomores - 1977 - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA Residence - - Wake County, North Carolina, USA Residence - Age: ca 16 - 1977 - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA Marriage - 2 Dec 1983 - Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA Divorce - 8 Apr 1987 - Butler, Ohio, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		US School Yearbook Middletown 1977 Bev Vance.jpg 20241111GHLn- Bev Vance in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 Name Bev Vance her Age ca 16 Birth abt 1961 Yearbook 1977 School Middletown High School Middletown, Ohio, USA sophomores page 251 "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977
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  [S2109] J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, (Date: 28 June 2016;), chapter three. p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so the tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay. [S2110] Ancestry.com, Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Beverly C Vance in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 (2) facts. Record for Beverly C Vance Beverly C Vance in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 Name: Beverly C Vance Birth Date: 20 Jan 1961 Birth Place: Middletown, Butler State File Number: 1961001251 Additional Information: Blanton Source Information Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Ohio Birth Records. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Vital Records Office. Beverly C Vance in the Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 Name: Beverly C Vance Birth Date: 20 Jan 1961 Birth Place: Middletown, Butler State File Number: 1961001251 Additional Information: Blanton Source Information Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Ohio Birth Records. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Vital Records Office. [S1285] Ancestry.com, Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2010;), Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Marriage Index, 1970 and 1972-2007 (10) facts. Record for Donald R Bowman (10) facts edited 20241111GHLn- Donald R Bowman in the Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007 Name: Ronald R Bowman Age: 24 Birth : abt 1959 Res: Butler County Spouse: Beverly C Lewis her Age: 22 her birth: abt 1961 her res county: Butler Marriage: 02 Dec 1983 license: Butler County Cert: 90955 Volume: 11875 Source Citation Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, Ohio; Ohio Marriage Index, 1970 and 1972-2007 Source Information Ancestry.com. Ohio Marriage Index, 1970, 1972-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Original data: Ohio Marriage Index, 1970 and 1972-2007. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics, 2008. [S2109] J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, (Date: 28 June 2016;), chapter three pp 37,38, 39, 41, 42, 43. p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids (10) facts 20201201HAv- Pasted from front Source Citation Text: p.37- Mamaw and Papaw had three kids- Jimmy, Bev (my mom) and Lori. Jimmy was born in 1951, when Mamaw and Papaw were integrating into their lives. They wanted more children, so the tried and tried, through a heartbreaking period of terrible luck and numerous miscarriages. Mamaw carried the emotional scars of nine lost children for her entire life. Mom was born on January 20, 1961-- the day of John F. Kennedy's inauguration-- and my aunt Lori came along less than two years later. For whatever reason, Mamaw and Papaw stopped there. p.38- Whatever unity they possessed early in their marriage bagan to evaporate after their daughter, Lori-- whom I call Aunt Wee-- was born in 1962. p.39- Before Mamaw was married, her brothers had been willing to murder boys who disrespected their sister. Now that she was married to a man whom many of them considered more a brother than an outsider, they tolerated behavior that would have gotten Papaw killed in the holler. "Mom's brothers would come up and want to go carousing with Dad," Uncle Jimmy explained... Uncle Pet was always the leader. p. 41- It's not obvious to anyone why Mamaw and Papaw's marriage fell apart. Perhaps Papaw's alcoholism got the best of him. Uncle Jimmy suspects that he eventually "ran around" on Mamaw. Or maybe Mamaw just cracked-- with three living kids, one dead one, and a host of miscarriages in between, who could have blamed her? p.42- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life. Lori struggled in school, mostly because she never attended class. p.43 The next year, at sixteen, Lori dropped out of high school and married. She immediately found herself trapped in an abusive home just like the one she'd tried to escape. Her new husband would lock her in a bedroom to keep her from seeing her family. "It was almost like a prison," Aunt Wee later told me. Unfortunately the statistics caught up with the Vance family, and BEV (my mom) didn't fare so well. Like her siblings, she left home early. She was a promising student, but when she got pregnant at eighteen, she decided college had to wait. After high school, she married her boyfriend and tried to settle down. But settling down wasn't quite her thing: She had learned the lessons of her childhood all too well. When her new life developed the same fighting and drama so present in her old one, Mom filed for divorce and began life as a single mother. She was nineteen, with no degree, no husband, and a little girl- my sister, Lindsay. pp 37,38, 39, 41, 42, 43 [S2925] Ancestry.com, Kentucky, U.S., Marriage Index, 1973-1999, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). Record for Beverly C Bowman (8) facts 20241111GHLn- 20241111GHLn- Beverly C Bowman in the Kentucky, U.S., Marriage Index, 1973-1999 text only Name Beverly C Bowman Gender Female Race White Age 29 1961 Marriage 15 Sep 1990 Status Last marriage ended by death Res County after Married Breathitt State Kentucky Spouse Robert E Hamel his Age 31 his Race White his Status Last marriage ended by divorce Volume 071 1990 Certificate 35346 Marriage License County Breathitt [S1129] Ancestry.com, U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977. Record for Bev Vance (5) facts 20241111GHLn- 20241111GHLn- Bev Vance in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 Name Bev Vance her Age ca 16 Birth abt 1961 Yearbook 1977 School Middletown High School Middletown, Ohio, USA sophomores page 251 "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977 US School Yearbook Middletown 1977 Bev Vance.jpg 20241111GHLn- Bev Vance in the U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 Name Bev Vance her Age ca 16 Birth abt 1961 Yearbook 1977 School Middletown High School Middletown, Ohio, USA sophomores page 251 "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Middletown High School; Year: 1977 [S2408] Ancestry.com, Ohio, Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2010;), Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio Divorce Index, 1962-1963, 1967-1971 and 1973-2007. Record for Robert E Hamel (8) facts 20241111GHLn- 20241111GHLn- Robert E Hamel in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text only Name Robert E Hamel Birth 1958 Decree 17 Aug 1995 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Middletown, Butler To Whom dissolution Married 1 once Duration 03 years Minor Children 1 Spouse Beverly C Hamel Cert 27445 Volume 7786 [S2109] J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, (Date: 28 June 2016;), pp 57,58,60,65 Donald Bowman / Beverly Vance marriage (5) facts. Donald Bowman / Beverly Vance marriage (5) facts 20201201HAv- Pasted from front Source Citation text: p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot." My father Don Bowman was Mom's second husband. Mom and Dad married in 1983 and split up around the time I started walking. Mom remarried a couple years after the divorce. Dad gave me up for adoption when I was six. After the adoption, he bacame kind of a phantom for the next six years... I always felt loved when I spent time with him (Bob), which was why I found it so shocking that he "didn't want me anymore," as Mom and Mamaw told me. He had a new wife, with two small children, and I'd been replaced. p.58- Bob Hamel, my stepdad and eventual adoptive father, was a good guy in that he treated Lindsay and me kindly... a walking hillbilly stereotype.... He had two kids whom he barely saw, though they lived in Hamilton, a town ten miles south of Middletown. He was a high school dropout who drove truck for a living. When Bob became my legal father, Mom changed my name from James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel. Until then, I'd borne my father's first name as my middle name, and Mom used the adoption to erase any memory of his existence. She kept the D to preserve what had by then become a universal nickname-- J.D. ... I was now named after Uncle David, Mamaw's older, pot-smoking brother.... Any old D would have done, so long as it wasn't Donald. p.60- Mom believed deeply in the promise of education. She was the salutatorian of her high school class but never made it to collee because Lindsay was born weeks after Mom graduated from high school. But she did return to a local community college and earn an associate's degree in nursing. p.65- Bob was Mom's third husband, but the third time was not the charm. pp 57,58,60,65 [S2109] J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, (Date: 28 June 2016;), J.D. (6) facts p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot.". J.D. (6) facts p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot." 20201201HAv- pasted from front Citation Text: p.57- my name was "J.D., like jay-dot-dee-dot." My father Don Bowman was Mom's second husband. Mom and Dad married in 1983 and split up around the time I started walking. Mom remarried a couple years after the divorce. Dad gave me up for adoption when I was six. After the adoption, he bacame kind of a phantom for the next six years... I always felt loved when I spent time with him (Bob), which was why I found it so shocking that he "didn't want me anymore," as Mom and Mamaw told me. He had a new wife, with two small children, and I'd been replaced. p.58- Bob Hamel, my stepdad and eventual adoptive father, was a good guy in that he treated Lindsay and me kindly... a walking hillbilly stereotype.... He had two kids whom he barely saw, though they lived in Hamilton, a town ten miles south of Middletown. He was a high school dropout who drove truck for a living. When Bob became my legal father, Mom changed my name from James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel. Until then, I'd borne my father's first name as my middle name, and Mom used the adoption to erase any memory of his existence. She kept the D to preserve what had by then become a universal nickname-- J.D. ... I was now named after Uncle David, Mamaw's older, pot-smoking brother.... Any old D would have done, so long as it wasn't Donald. p.60- Mom believed deeply in the promise of education. She was the salutatorian of her high school class but never made it to collee because Lindsay was born weeks after Mom graduated from high school. But she did return to a local community college and earn an associate's degree in nursing. p.65- Bob was Mom's third husband, but the third time was not the charm. [S2927] Ancestry.com, Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-2003, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Ohio Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics; Columnbus, Ohio; Ohio Department of Health, Index to Annual Births, 1968-1998. Record for James David Hamel (11) facts 20241111GHLn- 20241111GHLn- James David Hamel in the Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-2003 Ohio, U.S., Birth Index, 1908-2003 text only Name James David Hamel [James David "JD" Vance] [James Donald Bowman] Birth 2 Aug 1984 Ohio, USA Reg Date 13 Aug 1984 Father Robert Eugene Hamel Mother Beverly Carol Hamel Cert 1984818777 [S2926] Ancestry.com, North Carolina, U.S., Divorce Index, 1958-2004, (Name: 2008; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;). Record for Beverly Bowman (9) facts 20241111GHLn- 20241111HLn- Beverly Bowman in the North Carolina, U.S., Divorce Index, 1958-2004 text only Name Beverly Bowman Spouse Donald Bowman Marriage USA Divorce 29 May 1974 Wake, North Carolina, USA Res Wake, USA [S2408] Ancestry.com, Ohio, Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2010;), Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio Divorce Index, 1962-1963, 1967-1971 and 1973-2007. Record for Donald Bowman (8 facts) 20241112GHLn- 20241112GHLn- Donald Bowman in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text Name Donald Bowman Decree 8 Apr 1987 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Trenton, Butler Grounds Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty to Whom Wife Duration 03 years Minor Children 1 Spouse Beverly Bowman Cert 9625 Volume 5951 Save [S2109] J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, (Date: 28 June 2016;), *pp. 24/25/26 of 234, iBook:. Bonnie Elis "Mamaw" Blanton (6) facts Jams Lee "Papaw" Vance, Sr. (5) facts ....... (7) Donald R. Bowman (15) facts .................... (17) 20201201HAv- pasted from front Source Citation Text: Jim Vance and Bonnie Blanton Vance and Papaw's distant cousin- also (Bad) Jim Vance Papaw- James Lee Vance, born 1929, middle name a tribute to his father, Lee Vance Jams Lee "Papaw" Vance, Sr. (5) facts Jim Vance and Bonnie Blanton Vance and Papaw's distant cousin- also (Bad) Jim Vance Papaw- James Lee Vance, born 1929, middle name a tribute to his father, Lee Vance hmmmmm... At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. [S2408] Ancestry.com, Ohio, Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2010;), Ohio Department of Health; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio Divorce Index, 1962-1963, 1967-1971 and 1973-2007. Record for James L Vance (8) facts 20250310GHLn- 20250310GHLn- James L Vance in the Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 Ohio, U.S., Divorce Abstracts, 1962-1963, 1967-1971, 1973-2007 text only Name James L Vance Decree 19 May 1981 Butler, Ohio, USA Res Middletown, Butler Grounds Gross Neglect/Extreme Cruelty granted Wife Marriage 33 years Minor Children 0 Spouse Bonnie Vance Cert 17635 Volume 4567

  
  

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