Father: Enoch Morgan Lyness (1836-1903)
Mother: Malinda Elizabeth Kuhn (1834-1901)
Born March 30, 1871, at Logan, Indiana.Died September 11, 1921, at Eads, Colorado.
Mary Josephine Lyness lived in Logan, Indiana, until about 1878, when the family moved to west Texas and then settled in Walnut, Kansas, in 1879. She married Robert Pembrook Bowyer March 3, 1891, in Walnut, Kansas. They moved to Wright, Kansas, in 1898, and to Kiowa County, Colorado, in 1916.
Children:
- F Mabel Elizabeth Bowyer (1891-1976)
- F Cora Adele Bowyer (1893-1960)
- F Florence Roberta Bowyer (1895-1982)
- F Rose Ella Bowyer (1898-1964)
- F Helen Mary Bowyer (1900-1978)
- M Harold Lyness (Tom) Bowyer (1902-1982)
- M John Riley Bowyer(1905-1988)
- M Ralph Willis Bowyer(1907-1987)
- F Viola Estelle Bowyer(1909-)
- M LeRoy Franklin Bowyer (1913-1913)
- F Bertha Iona Bowyer(1915-1995)