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 (1827-1922)
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…
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…
Finding my FOWLER Ancestors: Left Out of the Census, or Counted Twice?
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…
McDonal Carol “Mac” Lowery (1875-1901)
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 (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…
WASHINGTON FOWLER (1818-after 1860) Son of John, Son of Ephraim
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,…
LYDIA FOWLER (1785-1852) Daughter of Ephraim Fowler
"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…
THOMAS T. FOSTER (1820-1903) and THOMAS J. FOSTER (1818-1888)
THOMAS T. FOSTER (b. 1820) is my great great grandfather. He is often confused with Thomas J. Foster who was born in 1818. I would like to set the record straight. They were two different men married to three different women. My ancestor, Thomas T. Foster, was born in Union County, SC in 1820. His…
The FOWLER Graves in Brown’s Chapel Cemetery, Pacolet Mills SC
George Washington Brown donated the land for Brown's Chapel Baptist Church in Pacolet Mills, SC. The cemetery, which dates from 1870, is across the street from the present church which was built in 1962 after the original church burned. Thomas G. Fowler (1812-1887) may have been the son of John Fowler d. 1818 and Fannie…
THE FOWLER FAMILIES OF UNION COUNTY, SC 