hey to all, I have been reading your letters i have been on this list for about a year now and aven't made any connections...but i see that your fowlers came the same route as mine and this is where i might be able to help...i live in alabama now and from the info i have gathered some of them were cherokee and were hiding from the white man...just some advice if you keep coming against a brick wall can't find anything in the white mans papers then you might want to look in the indian rolls and such....just a thought ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 10:11 AM Subject: [FOWLER] Re: Fowlers of NC>SC>GA>AL > Judy... > Thanks for the info. I will write those names down. That does seem to be the > migration route from the Carolinas. I have detailed information on the other > side of my dad's pedigree, the Blakes. Although I believe they migrated to > Alabama earlier, in the 1820s, they took the same route...from Isle of Wight > Virginia in the 1700s to Wake Co., NC to Jackson Co, Ga to Hall Co, to > Carroll Co. and on to Randolph Co. in Alabama. We need to get our mindset on > the happenings of those days...land was opening up due to the Indian lands > being ceded. Maybe there was a frequently used trail that everybody traveled > on to get to the new available land. There is mention in the Blake book of > the Blake family traveling in the early 1830s "50 miles over dangerous > terrain from Carroll Co. to Randolph Co."I just have a feeling that my > Fowlers came later, but I may be wrong. > > My concentrated explorings recently have been just on the net so far, except > for a trip to Ranburne a few years ago to check out the cemetery. And I wasn't > really that "into" this stuff yet. I am planning a trip to Heflin this > spring. A friend of mine has a relative who is a retired tax assessor for > Cleburne County. My great-grandfather, William Jethroe Fowler, and his > brother, George Wilson Fowler, must have owned land, according to the > word-of-mouth stories. There is another brother, L.C. Fowler, buried in the > same cemetery (probably Luther Clarence since that was my grandfather's > name), but I can't assume too much here. Maybe discovering the dates of > purchase and/or transfer may help me put a time line on these guys. And maybe > I'm way off...maybe William, George and L.C.'s parents (those are the ones > I'm desperately trying to find) were the ones who came from the Carolinas. > That would put their migration at the same time as the Blakes. Aaaghhh!!! > This mystery is driving me crazy. > > Again, thanks again for responding. Any scrap of information at this point is > greatly appreciated. > Judy Fowler Kilgore > [email protected] > >