I do not know exactly what day I first noticed the huge, beautiful, scary spider in her huge, beautiful, scary web in the frame of the door I use to go in and out of my home. Maybe it was a day or two before I decided to take a photograph or two of her…
WYMAC MATTHEW FOWLER (1836–1862) Son of Womack Fowler
Wymac Matthew Fowler was born September 27, 1836. He was the fourteenth child --the last child -- born to Womack Fowler and Susannah Moseley. Womack, Womach, Wymac, Wymack, Wymach. I am using "Womack" for the father and "Wymac" for the son. I have never seen or heard anyone refer to the son as "Mac" but…
REUBEN ROOF (1799–1885) of Lexington SC — and — REUBEN RUFF (1805-1874) of Noxubee County, Mississippi
Two Reubens born about the same time in South Carolina. A surname that was interchangeably Roof, Ruff, Reuff, and Reiff, and sometimes Rough. (I will use Roof for the remainder of this article to simplify things; specifically Lexington Reuben Roof and Mississippi Reuben Roof). When writing an article about my ancestor Simeon Godfrey Jacob Roof,…
WILLIAM M. FOWLER (1812-1872) Son of Womack Fowler
Womack Fowler and his wife Susannah Moseley, had fourteen children if one takes as truth the entries made in the Womack Fowler Family Bible. Seven sons and seven daughters were born between the years 1809 to 1836. Two sons and three daughters did not survive childhood, and if not for the entries in the family…
The FOWLER Family and The Balloon Landing of 1861
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…
WALTER ELLIS BURTON (1898-1924)
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 (1905-2002)
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…
THE FOWLER FAMILIES OF UNION COUNTY, SC 