Fowler Benjamin Hamilton
Fowler Benjamin Hamilton
was born December 30, 1887
in Elmo, Missouri
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Fowler along with Lark Bailey and Ernest Scott took out Homestead Act Claims in 1909 in Eastern Colorado. In the fall of 1910 Fowler went back to Elmo, Missouri and married Beatrice Lamar. Fowler and Bea took their belongings and rode the train to Sligo, Colorado to their homestead.
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Fowler and Anna Beatrice Lamar Hamilton
Married September 14, 1910
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Fowler and Bea Hamilton's home on the dryland
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Their first daughter Helen was born on the dryland
Fowler and Bea moved back to Missouri
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Helen and Frances Hamilton
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Frances, Ruth and Helen Hamilton
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Helen, Frances and Ruth Hamilton
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Fowler, Helen, Ruth, Frances and Bea Hamilton
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Frances, Bea, Ruth, Fowler and Helen Hamilton
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Helen Hamilton
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Helen and Bud Phillips on their wedding day
27 July 1933
Ethel Phillips and Cathy Thompson Reyes
Richard and Ethel Phillips
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Helen and Bud Phillips in 1967
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Dick and Keith Phillips
Katrina Phillips Thernall
Anne Phillips Lindquist
Keith's daughters
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Frances Hamilton
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Frances and Emery Spangler
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Emery and Frances as teens
1929
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Emery and Frances in Phoenix
1964
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Donna Spangler Pierpoint and Joyce Spangler Ecker
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Ruth Hamilton McCumber and Family
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Ruth Hamilton McCumber and Family
Jim and Maxine Dinsdale, Anita and Ed McCumber, Nancy and Mike Obert
Ruth and Bonnie
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Fowler and Bea Hamilton's descendants at the 2001 Hamilton Family Reunion
Keith Phillips, Ethel Phillips, Gary Ecker, Burdette Pierpoint, Susan and Terry Ecker, Jim Dinsdale, Mike Obert
Vickie and Joyce Ecker, Donna Pierpoint, Ruth McCumber, Bonnie Gray, Maxine Dinsdale, Nancy Obert
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Keith Phillips and his Mom - Helen Phillips
Gary Ecker and daughter Vickie
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Left lower corner....Keith and Dick Phillips, Maxine Dinsdale, Nancy Obert
Bonnie Gray, Joyce Ecker and Donna Pierpoint