Washington Post, Washington, District of Columbia, August 3, 1983

Grace Barlow Schneider Bride of Lt. Col. John Webster Bowman, Jr.

In the presence of their immediate families, Grace Barlow Schneider and Lt. Col. John Webster Bowman, Jr. USMC, were married on July 30th by the Rev. Paul R. Edwards in River Road United Presbyterian Church, Washington D. C.

Escorted by her father, the bride was attended by her sister, Eleanor Poe Barlow of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Jonathan Roosevelt of Washington, and by her two young sons, Marshall Bartz and Elliott Barlow Schneider. The best man was the groom?s cousin, O. Griffith Sexton, of New York City.

Mrs. Bowman, a graduate of the Potomac and Madeira Schools and of Garland Junior College in Boston, worked for the National Geographic Society, and was a teacher at the Potomac School, among other schools. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barlow of Boynton Beach, Fla., formerly of Washington - where Mr. Barlow was senior partner in the law firm, Covington and Burling, until retirement in 1973.

The bride is the granddaughter of Mrs. Philip Livingston Poe of Ruxton, Md. And the late Mr. Poe, a collateral relative of Edgar Allan Poe. Through her mother, the former Eleanor Livingston Poe, Mrs. Bowman is descended from Robert Morris and Philip Livingston, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and from Chief Justice John Marshall. Her paternal grandparents are the late Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stanley Barlow of Tunkhannock, Pa. Her father?s early American ancestor, Joel Barlow, established the great Kalorama estate in Washington.

Lt. Col. Bowman was graduated from the Choate School and Princeton University. He was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1966, graduated as a naval aviator from Pensacola in 1968, and served two tours in Vietnam, the second participating in the rescue evacuations of Phnom Penh and Saigon. A graduate of the Air Force Air Intelligence School in Denver and from the Quantico Command and Staff College, he is currently assigned to the Third Marine Wing at El Toro, Cal. He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York and of the Chevy Chase Club.

The groom is the son of Colonel John Webster Bowman, USMC ret., and Mrs. Bowman, the former Eleanor Noyes Hempstone, of Washington. His father retired as Marine Corps Chief of Communication-Electronics in 1966, was manager of engineering of the broadcasting properties of the Washington Star for ten years, and s now an independent consultant in cable television and cellular radio. The younger Bowman is the grandson of Lee Reed Bowman of Sikeston, Mo., former president and chairman of the board of the Scott County Milling Co. He is also the grandson of the late Capt (USN) and Mrs. Smith Hempstone of Washington. Through his maternal grandmother, the former Elizabeth Crosby Noyes, some of his ancestors were the first Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony and of the Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He is directly descended from the 17th century poet Anne Bradstreet, whose husband, Simon Bradstreet, and father, Sir Thomas Dudley, were governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His great, great grandfather, Crosby Stuart Noyes came to Washington from Maine in 1847, founded and built the Washington Star.