Duane, I'm sure there must be a connections with your James Fowler and Debra's. However, I just discovered the history of Debra's James Oliver Fowler and Mary Jane Sanders along with Mary Jane's parents marriage: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbill/people/sanders/fam2.html This is a very excellent site and apparently a cousin of Debra's: Barb Barnhart at wbarnhart@sprynet.com [Other surnames at this site: Fowler, Sanders, Hood, Kuykendall, DeHoog, Weatherford, Slightom, and Greene] >Frederick Paul Cecil Fowler<Joseph Ralph Oral Fowler<Mary Jane Sanders > >Migration: Scotland, VA, TN, IL > >Mary Jane Sanders was born in Johnson County, Illinois February 5, 1847 >the daughter of John William Sanders and Nancy Harper. Mary Jane married >James Oliver Fowler June 21, 1865 Johnson County, Illinois. > >Mary Jane's Father, John, came to Southern Illinois with his parents as a >young boy in the Fall of 1838 from Tennessee where they had lived three >years. John and Nancy Harper knew each other as children in Tennessee and >the two families made the trip from Tennessee to Illinois together. > >John William Sanders was born May 30, 1825 in Caroline County, Virginia to >James Sanders and Mary Ann Orrell. John married Nancy Harper January 22, >1846 in Johnson County, Illinois. Nancy was born in Tennessee to James >Harper and Rhoda Cross. John and Nancy purchased new land where they >lived for three years. They sold this land and later bought an >improvement paying $175 for the clearing of ten acres, log cabin and >barn. John later purchased additional parcels of 80 acres and 103 acres. > >John was a member of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, Company H as a >Private. He was later transferred to Company G. He was discharged as a >First Lieutenant and was in command of the company. John replaced Captain >William Perkins who had been wounded and discharged for disability. John >was wounded in the right leg by a gunshot breaking one bone at the Battle >of Kenesaw Mountain. His regiment took an active part in the Morgan Raid >in 1863 and of the Stoneman Raid in Macon, Georgia. He was mustered out >July 31, 1865 at Pulaski, Tennessee and discharged at Nashville, Tennessee >August 8. He reached his home and family in Johnson County, Illinois >August 18. > >John served as Justice of the Peace one term of four years. He was a >member of the Masonic Fraternity, Secretary of Reynoldsburgh Lodge eleven >and a half years and representative to the Grand Lodge in 1873. John was >a Democrat, previously a Whig. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal >Church for forty seven years and his wife, Nancy for forty nine >years. Nancy was the daughter of a Methodist Minister. > >John's father, James Sanders, was born in Scotland 1790 and came to the >United States 1810 with an elder brother. He served in the War of >1812. James married Mary Ann Orrell in 1815. They lived in Virginia >until 1835 when they went to Middle Tennessee where they lived three >years. In October of 1838, they removed to Southern Illinois and settled >near Reynoldsburgh, Johnson County Illinois. Both trips were made in a >covered wagon; six weeks from Virginia to Tennessee and one month from >Tennessee to Southern Illinois. The Sanders and Harper families traveled >together from Tennessee to Southern Illinois in the company of the >Cherokee Indians who were going to their home in Indian Territory. > >James and Mary Ann lived two years on 80 acres of land near Reynoldsburgh. >James sold his improvement and purchased 160 acres where the family lived >six years. He again sold and bought 126½ acres of improved land where >they lived until his death in February 1847 when he was fifty six years of >age. His widow, Mary Ann, sold the farm and went to live with her only >son, John William Sanders. > >Source: > >Some of the information rewritten from The Biographical Review of Johnson, >Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties Illinois -1893. John William Sanders >probably provided the information to the author as he did not die until >July 15, 1910. Jim At 10/22/2003, you wrote: >Debbie and Jim, James Madison Fowler was my great great great grandfather. >He was born on January 30, 1811 in Virginia or Tennessee, he married in >the 1830s or 1840 to Sarah L. or H. McHaney in Tennessee or Williamson co. >Illinois, and James M. Fowler died on October 29, 1874 in Williamson co. >Illinois and he is buried in the Union Grove Cemetery near Pittsburg, in >Williamson co. Ill. Pittsburg is near Johnson/Johnston City, Ill. both >places are in Williamson county. The information I have is that James M. >Fowler Sr. first settled in Lake Creek Township where Johnston City is >located,he was a Methodist minister, doctor, and farmer,he was among the >first settlers and members of the Squat Church later known as Union Grove. >James M. and Sarah had at least 7 or 9 children among them was James >Madison Fowler Jr. born on March 11, 1848 and he died on July 26, 1911. I >descend from his sister Caroline Fowler who married on December 1860 or 61 >to William H. Avery who lived in Lake Cr! >eek Township on a farm near Johnston City. My parents and I visited the >Avery and Fowler relatives many times in the 1980s and 90s. They wanted to >get in touch with us all who went to Minnesota. My great grandparents >Lloyd and Zora Petty Avery and their son Harland and later on Lloyd Avery >and his second wife Alma used to visit there also. My great grandfather >Lloyd Avery was born near Johnston City on the old Avery farm and his >family left there when he was a boy and went to Minnesota, some of the >family went to Idaho and Washington. I would like to hear from you both >and anyone else who is researching this family. They talked about the >Sanders being Fowler relatives in Williamson county and a Sanders man was >among the entertainment at the Fowler reunion in 1984 at Johnston City >that year on Labor day weekend when the reunion was then. Keep in touch. >Duane McKenzie. mailto:dmckenze@hutchtel.net > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi, What a surprise! Debbie, it is always great to find a new cousin and share information. Gave up finding info for Andrew and children after Martha died. Now know why I couldn't find Andrew and family. Would like to add any Neely info you have to my family file. Below is the url for a photo of James Oliver Fowler and Mary Jane Sanders if you have not already viewed. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbill/people/fowler/fpic2.html If you have any questions, let me know. Would be great to hear from you and anyone who is connected to the Fowler/Sanders family. Jim, thanks for the info and finding my website for Debbie. Barb (Fowler) Barnhart http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbill/people/fowler/fpic2.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cowboy" <cowboy2@inreach.com> To: <FOWLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: Re: [FOWLER] James Fowler > Duane, > I'm sure there must be a connections with your James Fowler and > Debra's. However, I just discovered the history of Debra's James Oliver > Fowler and Mary Jane Sanders along with Mary Jane's parents marriage: > >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbill/people/sanders/fam2.html > > This is a very excellent site and apparently a cousin of Debra's: Barb > Barnhart at wbarnhart@sprynet.com > [Other surnames at this site: Fowler, Sanders, Hood, Kuykendall, DeHoog, > Weatherford, Slightom, and Greene] > >Frederick Paul Cecil Fowler<Joseph Ralph Oral Fowler<Mary Jane Sanders