Forwarded message. Please reply to: Nancy Bradford Young at [email protected] > I am researching the Fowler family of Clarke County. My first known = > ancestor is Coday(Cody) Fowler who we know was in Clarke Co. in 1850. = > He was born in VA in 1772, County unknown. > His wife was Sarah (Sally), maiden name unknown. She was born in VA in = > 1776. > The are both buried in a cemetary in Athens, but I don't rembember the = > name off hand. There is a nice tombstone, and there are tombstones for = > many Fowlers. A cousin of mine tells me this is the church the Fowlers = > attended. It was Methodist back then, but it is now a Baptist Church. > Their son Robert T. Fowler was born in VA in 1799, so they came to GA = > after the turn of the century. I don't know the name of Robert's wife. = > The census shows a lady called Martha who was born in 1817. Which makes = > her a good deal younger than Robert, so I'm not sure that she is my = > ancestor, in fact I know she's not, since Robert's son Lewis Miles was = > born in 1815. She may be an older sister to Lewis, or a second wife of = > Robert's. I spend most of my days in ancestral frustration and = > speculation.=20 > Robert's son and my ancestor is Lewis Miles Fowler, he married Elizabeth = > A. Conger, who was born in New Jersey. Her parents were Abijah Conger = > and Phebe, maiden name unknown. They were both born in NJ in 1882 and = > 1881 respectively. They apparently came to GA through TN, since some of = > their younger children were born in TN. > Elizabeth and Lewis Miles children were: > Hedges > David =20 > Sarah > Coday > Cynthia > Mary > Lewis Miles (my ancestor) > Sophia > Lewis Miles, Jr. married Ida Nora Echols, who was the daughter of = > Obediah Echols, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Whitehead. Mary Elizabeth's = > father we think, no proof, was Sanford Whitehead and her mother was = > Elmina Wise. > Ida and Lewis' daughter my grandmother, was Mary Elizabeth Fowler, who = > married Hugh Hampton Miller. > Any information on any of these families, would be greatly appreciated, = > since they were all from Clarke Co., except possibly the Millers. I = > think they came from Hall County. > Sincerely, > Nancy Bradford Young > [email protected]