"He sleeps his last sleep; he has fought his last battle.  No sound can awake him to glory again."          Heath, Lyman, "Grave of Bonaparte" (1843). Historic Sheet Music Collection. W.G. Fowler died 14 March 1899 of grippe.  He was a member of Foster's Chapel Methodist Church, where he was buried.  Bill and…

  "Lieutenant Fowler was a Virginian of excellent family.  He was a man of powerful stature." "I can recall the appearance of Mr. Ellis Fowler (son of the lieutenant), a tall, fair man, with a deep and most powerful voice." Miss Sarah Adeline Sims, daughter of Joseph Starke Sims   "We Fowlers have thin, fine,…

Henry Richard Fowler was born in Union County, South Carolina in 1825.  He was the son of Ellis Fowler (1805-before 1840) and Sarah Mabry (1815-after 1850). Named after Henry Ellis Fowler, his grandfather, Ellis Fowler was the last son born to Ephraim and Nancy Moseley Fowler.  He was born circa 1805 in Union County, SC…

On April 12, 1861, the first shot of the American Civil War was fired just before sunrise at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.  Eight days later, Professor Thaddeus Lowe left Cincinnati Ohio in his hot air balloon, The Enterprise, bound for Washington, D.C.   After traveling nine hours and eight hundred miles, he landed “slightly” off course in…

Benjamin Fowler was born in 1862 in Cherokee County Georgia.  He was the son of B. Elbert Fowler and Malinda Susannah Newbury.  He was a direct descendant of Henry Ellis Fowler of Union County South Carolina. Through the use of the wonderful research tool of yDNA testing, the Henry Ellis Fowler family of Union County…

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…

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…

Murder.  Is the propensity for taking the life of another embedded in the DNA of a man's genetic code?  One could argue that environment or circumstance or just plain bad luck be reason enough to place a man in the position of making a split second decision to pull a trigger and end a life.…

"Four angels now on highThey are hand in hand togetherFour are linked now to bind us to themFour fingers beckon us to come" June 6, 1903.  The most catastrophic flood in recorded South Carolina history roared down the Pacolet River, destroying homes and mills, --the raging waters dragging dozens of men, women, and children downstream…

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not                      refuse this moment to die for you,                                                      …