Lori, I have two John Fowlers born about that time in my file from SC but different wife. Check my website at bottom of this mail for more on them. I found lots of the info in HOUSE OF FOWLER book. David Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:10:14 EDT From: Reacept@aol.com To: FOWLER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FOWLER]john/rachael SC, AL & TX This list has been so busy, I gotta put in my 2 cents. This is the famiy I'm researching : John Fowler - b. about 1836 in South Carolina Rachael (wife) b. about 1838 in Alabama Children - in 1880 Census for Wise County Texas : Willam b. about 1857 in Alabama Sarah (My direct link) b. 1861 in Alabama (possibly Fayette Co.) Henry b. about1868 in Missouri Horton b. about1872 in Texas Mack b. about 1877 in Texas I don't have any info on any of these family members excepting my GGG Grandmother, who married John A Wilson and then moved to Graham OK, where they had eight children, before migrating west into Idaho. John and Rachael are my brick wall. Won't someone please help me to crubble it down? Thank you very much...............Lori David S. Payne, 1614 Chapman Rd., Anderson, SC, 29621 otime1@yahoo.com : My website: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=otime : Searching for surnames mostly in Upstate SC/GA/NC: ADDISON, ALLISON, ARENDALL, CANADY, CORBIN, COLEMAN, CRAIG, DEAN, FOWLER, HALEY, GORDON, HENSON, JAMES, McMILLIAN, McPHERSON, MOODY, PARKER, PATTERSON, PAYNE, POINDEXTER, POOLE, REDWINE, REID, SWANN, WEST, WHITMIRE --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search