General Notes

From the research of Robert H. Maybrier:
Augustus was a distillery gauger for the Federal Government.
Sources:
Death certificate
Marriage license
Markers at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY
Personal knowledge of Robert H. Maybrier, grandson of Augustus Bowman Piper.
Personal information on later Piper families from Betty Jean Maybrier Hook, of Bow, WA, granddaughter of Augustus Bowman Piper.

From the 1910 Lexington, Fayette Co., KY Federal Census:
ED # 0032
A. B. Piper age 49 b in KY
Lucy Piper wife age 49 b in KY
Artimisia Piper daughter age 17 single b in KY
Anna Piper daughter age 15 b in KY
Walter Piper son age 14 b in KY
Lewis Piper son age 12 b in KY
George Piper son age 10 b in KY

From the 1920 Danville, Boyle Co., KY Federal Census:
page 11B d/h 246/309 ED # 42
Lucy W Piper 59 widow KY KY KY
Lula A Piper 29 single teacher city school KY
Anne C Piper 25 single teacher city school KY
Walter C Piper 23 single principal high school KY
Lewis A Piper 22 single teacher high school
George B Piper 20 single acct bookkeeper tobacco house

There must be some connection to the Bowman family since Augustus' middle name is Bowman. Perhaps this is it:

The following is a Biographical Sketch of George Bowman, copied from a Book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA." "HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL". Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & CO., Publishers. 1883. City of Monticello, White County, Indiana, page 215.

"GEORGE BOWMAN, was born February 28, 1819, in Berkeley County, Va., and is one of two surviving children in a family of seven born to George and Elizabeth (Potts) Bowman, both natives of the Old Dominion, and of German and Irish descent respectively. When yet a mere lad, the subject of this sketch was left alone by the death of his parents, and his earlier years were passed on a farm and clerking in a store. Having relatives in Indiana, he came to this state in 1840 and located at Delphi, where for about eight years he was engaged in teaching, and attending school at Asbury University and Wabash College, graduating from the classical course of the latter in 1853. He married Miss Ruth Angel in 1848, and the same year he removed to White County (Indiana) and engaged exclusively in teaching. In 1850, his wife died, succeeding which he returned to Delphi, where for the following eight years he was employed as Principal of the Delphi Schools; in 1858, he married Miss Mary D. Piper, and the fall of that year returned to White County and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits in southern Union Township. In 1861, he moved to Monticello, to take charge of the public schhols, continuing as Principal until the summer of 1862, when he resigned in order to raise a company for the war. In August, the company was mustered in as Company D, Mr. Bowman being elected Captain, and assigned to the Twelfth Indiana Volunteers. At Richmond, Ky., Captain Bowman, with the majority of his command, and many other Union troops, was captured, and, being paroled, did not again see active service until in and around Vicksburg, after which he participated in the capture of Jackson, at which place he was slightly wounded. On the evening of November 25, while leading his company on a charge up Missionary Ridge, Captain Bowman was severely wounded in the left thigh, and was carried off the field as dead. After being in the hospital at Nashville about two weeks, he was sufficiently recovered to come home on a furlough. On a surgical examination, he was pronounced unfit for further military duty, and accordingly was honorably discharged March30, 1864. In 1865, he went to Delphi, where he remained until 1871, acting as Principal of the schools of that place, and farming. Since that time he has lived in White County, and is now farming and teaching. Mr. Bowman was formerly a Whig, is now a Republican, and from 1873 to 1881, served White County as School Superintendent. He and his wife are P