Scans of Henry Pike’s family bible, courtesy of Sid Ohlhausen, showing births, baptisms, deaths and marriages of Bowie-Pikes from the late 1700s on.
Henry was born August 30, 1793 in St. Mary’s County, MD. Married to Mary Ann White, they had Helen Martha Pike in 1822. Helen married Augustus Jesse Bowie in 1842, they went on to have 9 children, including Jocelyn’s grandfather, Robert Ignatius Bowie.
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I believe I am the previous owner of Henry Pike’s family bible. If it is the same, I sold this bible on eBay around 2003. It came into my possession as part of my father’s estate, Mel Gorman PhD., who was a professor of Chemistry at University of San Francisco. His area of expertise was the history of science and he published over 100 articles of scholarly interest. His largest project concerned Augustus Jesse Bowie, about whom he was writing a book. The bible was one of his sources. I can remember spending many hours in the library helping in the research for Bowie. Sadly, the book was never finished due to my father’s passing. I donated the manuscript & source material to USF. As a side note, shortly after the bible was sold, one of the other bidders called me to talk about the bible. He was a relative of one of the Bowie-Pikes, and was sorry he could not bid higher