The year was 1861; the place, Pea Ridge, Union County, South Carolina. A spectacular and frightening event happened in the back-country of the county and people still talk about it one hundred and sixty years later T In 1983, the United States Postal Service released a set of four beautiful hot air balloon stamps to…
He was a beautiful boy, Walter Ellis Burton, and later, a handsome young man. His life was far too short, but he never saw the ravages of time mar his features. There is no one left on earth who knew him; no one who remembers the beautiful boy. Walter Ellis Burton was the firstborn son…
Leila Alma Vaughan was my father's first cousin. Her mother, Florence Imogene Mabry and my father's mother, Lois Ellen Mabry were sisters. Benjamin Franklin Mabry (1847–1925) m. Delilah Josephine Foster (1860–1935)Florence Imogene Mabry (1882–1974) m. Luther Lafayette Vaughan (1881–1936)Leila Alma Vaughan (1905–2002) m. Leonard Lewis Smith (1892–1949) I met Leila Alma Vaughn Smith when she…
Simeon Godfrey Jacob Roof. He's the elderly man with the gray beard standing on the back row to the far left. He is my great great great grandfather. This photograph was taken circa 1904/1905. This image is more valuable to me than a pot of gold. It is a family treasure. Simeon Godfrey Jacob Roof's…
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…
My ancestor Ellis Fowler (b. 1770) and his wife Mary made an appearance in the Union County SC census in the years 1800 to 1850, with one exception: they were not counted in 1810. This missing decade could have answered many questions regarding the number of sons and daughters born to the couple. Maybe the…
Mac Lowery was my great great grandfather. He was born McDonal Carol Lowery in Grassy Creek Township, Mitchell County, North Carolina in 1875, and he died on November 27, 1901 at Converse, Spartanburg County South Carolina. He was the son of John Stewart Lowery and Sarah Caroline McFalls. The name McDonal may have been a…
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…
I am going to take a great leap of faith and say that Washington Fowler born in Union County, SC in 1818 was one and the same as William Tip Fowler born in Union County, SC in 1818. Washington Fowler appeared in the 1840 Union County census as a 20 to 29 year old man,…
"And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein." The Holy Bible King James Version Genesis 9:7 Lydia Fowler must have been a good Christian woman, for she obeyed the Word of God. She had many children, and her children had many children, and there…
THE FOWLER FAMILIES OF UNION COUNTY, SC 