The title of this article --The GILLMAN FOWLERS of Union County, South Carolina -- is a little misleading. While predominately written about the Union County Gillman Fowlers, it is not exclusively about them. There are two Gilmer Fowlers, one Gilmore Fowler, and two Gillman Whites. And not all of the Gillman and variations thereof lived…
B. ELBERT FOWLER (1830-1882) Son of Ellis Fowler and Sarah Mabry
On Sunday, October 8, 1882, the old Hawkins iron bridge spanning the Little River in Cherokee County, Georgia collapsed from the weight of more than one hundred and fifty persons gathered to watch a baptism in the waters below. Elbert Fowler was among the twenty five or so who were critically injured. He was "badly…