I research and write articles primarily about my Union County, SC ancestors.  I help many people with their family research but I do not usually devote the hours and hours it takes to write and post articles online for others.   As much as I would like to do that, I have material enough for at least a hundred or more of my own articles and not enough time to accomplish all that I wish to do.

Two weeks ago, it was brought to my attention that there was a Fowler family Bible for sale.  It would have been against all odds that this Bible was connected to my family, but my interest was piqued and I sought out the volume.

It was not a Bible ever owned my Fowlers.  It had belonged to Asa Fowler and I did not recognize any of the names nor the lineage from the family pages of births, marriages, and deaths.  Nothing about the family was familiar.

I decided to research just a little into this Asa Fowler fellow.  Much to my surprise, I was looking at a very prominent, well educated, and already well researched Fowler line!

I was fortunate enough to also obtain a first edition of The Fowler Family, written by a descendant of this family and published in 1883.

I will soon add more information about the Asa Fowler family, along with wonderful photos of the two books.

I have traced this line to present day in hopes of finding a direct male Fowler descendant willing to yDNA test.  The following is a brief descendancy chart from the earliest known ancestor to almost present day.  I have omitted the names of living descendants for privacy reasons, but would love to hear from anyone interested in pursuing genetic research into this line.

• Philip Fowler 1590-1679 m. Mary
  • Joseph Fowler 1629-1676 m. Martha Kimball
    • Philip Fowler 1648-1715 m. Elizabeth Herrick
      • Philip Fowler 1691-1767 m. Susanna Jacob
        • Symonds Fowler 1734-1821 m. Hannah Weeks
          • Benjamin Fowler 1769-1832 m. Mehitable Ladd
            • ASA FOWLER 1811-1885 m.  Mary Dole Cilley Knox 1815–1882
              • Frank Asa Fowler 1842–1904 m. Flora Adella Johnson 1856-1881; m. Caroline A. 1876-1958
                • Frank Asa Fowler 1881-1881
                • Evelyn Sadie Fowler 1899–1993 m. Harold Douglas Reed 1886–
                  • James Marshall Reed 1930–2010
                  • Edward F Reed 1930– 2015
              • George Robert Fowler 1844–1897 m. Isabel Minot 1846-1909
                • Ethel Walker Fowler 1874-1899
                • Mary Pickering Fowler 1877-1936
                • Josiah Minot Fowler 1880–1931 m. Martha Louise Parsons
                  • Minot Parsons Fowler 1913–1913
                  • Josiah Minot Fowler Jr. 1914–1997
                  • Jean Parsons Fowler 1916-1996 m. George Rodney Harris Jr 1918–2012
                  • Isabel Minot Fowler 1921-1984
                • Robert Fowler 1884–1951 m. Rosalie Gretchen McIntyre 1887–1959
                  • Virginia Minot Fowler 1908–1996
                  • Robert Fowler Jr. 1915–2001 m. Grace Evelyn Kahrman 1917–1984
                    • Robert Earle Fowler 1941–2013
                  • Kenneth Walker Fowler 1918–1969
                  •  Donald Haines Fowler 1923-1983 m. Patricia Gail Smith 1923-2015
                    • Douglas H. Fowler 1949–2014
              • Clara Maria Fowler 1847–1931
              • William Plumer Fowler 1850–1918 m. Susan Farnham Smith 1886–1928
                • William Plumer Fowler 1900–1993 m. Ellen Sprague 1902–
                  • Clara Fowler 1929–
                  • Richard Fowler 1931–2013
                • Katherine Stevens Fowler 1902-1997 m. James Watson Lunn b.1894;  m. Marland Prott Billings 1902–1996
                  • Elizabeth Farnham Billings 1940–1990
                •  Philip Fowler 1906–1978 m. Madeline Bittmann 1912–2005
              • Edward Cilley Fowler 1853–1913 m. Sarah A Watson 1855–1941
                • Mary Josephine Fowler 1887–1960 m. Thomas Francis Haley 1885–1963
                  • Herbert Francis Haley 1901–1935
                  • Edward Fowler Haley 1908–1982
                • Sadie Fowler 1888–1888