Lewis, L.L.

• Person ID

  I65218

  WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Father	Lewis, J.J.
  Mother	Vance, Beverly Carol,   b. 20 Jan 1961, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA d. 20 Jan 2016 (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F45636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Bowman, Donald Ray,   b. 15 Aug 1959, Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, USA d. 4 Nov 2023, Ohio, USA (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Vance, Beverly Carol,   b. 20 Jan 1961, Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA d. 20 Jan 2016 (Age 55 years)
  Divorced	29 May 1974	Wake County, North Carolina, USA   [1]
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  	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   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  	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   [5]
  	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?)
  Family ID	F45634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ratliff, mr
  Family ID	F45691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

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• Sources

  [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 [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;), 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. [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 [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

  
  

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TNG ID: I65218