Husband: William Jethro FOWLER
Birthdate: 20 Nov 1849
Birthplace: Gwinnett Co., GA
Death date: 27 Nov 1919
Place of death: Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
Father: John FOWLER
Mother: Sarah Ann NORRIS
Other Spouses: Lucinda Caroline OWEN[S]

Marriage date: 24 Oct 1886
Marriage place: Cleburne Co., AL

Wife: Sarah Margaret [Maggie] VAUGHAN HART
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Sarah Roseanne FOWLER
Birthdate: 27 April 1888, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
Spouses' names: Alpheus Jesse HURST
Marriage date: 5 May 1907, Cleburne Co., AL
Death date: 30 April 1946, Cleburne Co., AL

Child No. 2: George Fred FOWLER
Birthdate: 18 May 1891, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
Spouses' names: Essie HURST
Marriage date: 1913
Death date: Feb. 1975, DeKalb Co., GA

Child No. 3: Lee R. FOWLER
Birthdate: Feb 1893, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
Spouses' names: Lizzie BUCHANAN
Marriage date: 6 Aug 1914, Carroll Co., GA
Death date: 1959, AL

Child No. 4: Warner J. FOWLER
Birthdate: 6 Sept. 1889, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
Spouses' names: Never married
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Death date: 26 June 1919, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL

Child No. 5: Inez FOWLER
Birthdate: 30 Aug 1896, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
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Death date: 5 Sept 1897, Hightower, Cleburne Co., AL
 
 
Documentation:
* Georgia census records: Gwinnett Co, Campbell Co., Meriwether Co.
* Alabama census records: Randolph Co., Cleburne Co.
* Probate Court records, Cleburne Co., AL.
* Marriage records: Meriwether Co., GA, Carroll Co., GA and Cleburne Co., AL.
* Gravestones: Ranburne Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleburne Co., AL; Hillcrest Cemetery, East Point, GA; Providence Baptist Church, Randolph Co., AL.
* Social Security Death Index, Rootsweb.com.
* Fowler family Bible.
* Interviews with family members.

Notes:
* William Jethro Fowler (who was called "Billy") also raised Sarah Margaret Vaughan Hart's two children, Tom Hart and Lela Hart, who were both under the age of 5 when William and Maggie married.
* Oscar Fowler died in a hay baling accident, said to have been run down by a team of runaway horses.
* John Fowler was said to have died from an accidental shooting in Texas. His widow, Eunice Bradbury Fowler, married the widower of John's sister, Mattie Fowler Gay.
* Eunice and Eason moved to Phil Campbell, Franklin Co., AL, but remained close with the Fowler family.
* Cecil Mary Fowler and her husband died from typhoid fever within days of each other, leaving several orphans who were raised by family members.
* Warner J. Fowler was crippled, supposedly from a stroke at an early age.
* The Fowler boys were fascinated by cars and Warner had one built to accommodate his handicap. Lee Fowler was said to have owned an automobile dealership in Birmingham.
* William Jethro Fowler was the victim of some kind of dementia (probably what we would today call Alzheimer's) the last three years of his life. His step-son, Tom Hart, was appointed his guardian in 1916 and cared for both William and Maggie (who was blind by this time) until William's death in 1919.
* William became a very wealthy man after he moved to Alabama with stores, a saw mill, a cotton gin, and extensive land holdings. To quote his granddaughter, Wilmer Fowler Hancock," My granddaddy's family rode mules to Alabama and bought all the land between the Little Tallapoosie and the Big Tallapoosie rivers." When confronted with this story, living relatives still in Cleburne nod their heads and say, "pert' near ... pert' near ..."
* William, both his wives, most of his children, his mother, and all but one of his siblings are buried at Ranburne Baptist Church cemetery in Cleburne County.