FRED KIRBY (1910-1996)

When my brother and I were growing up in a small, southern town, one thing that we looked forward to each week was a TV show with a singing cowboy called Fred Kirby's Little Rascals. We watched it on our small, black and white set topped by a rabbit ear antenna. The singing cowboy was…

JOHN WILLIAM LOWERY (1845-1925)

John William Lowery and his wife Sarah Caroline McFalls were my great great great grandparents. John William Lowery was born in Yancy County, North Carolina on April 6, 1845. I have seen records stating that he was born in 1842. He was one of the fifteen-or-so children of William Stewart "Scully" Lowery (1816–1898) and Mary…

RUFUS MARION FOWLER (1825-1864)

RUFUS MARION FOWLER died gallantly on May 5, 1864 after the Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. His was the death of a hero, far from home, far from family, fighting for a cause which would, itself, die on the last battlefield of the war between the states. Rufus Marion Fowler (I must…