I'm kind of late on this, I wanted to start it at the begining of the month, but personal things have interupted, so I'll go ahead and start it now. For the rest of the month, and April, let's focus on your Christian County brick walls. One message per "wall" but as many "walls" as you like, as long as they have some itty bitty inkling of a tie to CCMO. Remember, each one, in the subject line, start off with the surname in ALL CAPS, and follow with CCMO BRICK WALL or similar. Then post all that you have, or can, on that individual. Regards, Jim Cochran Nixa MO http://members.tripod.com/anetminder/outonalimb.htm ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com

I have been unable to verify the origin or the final destiny of my great, great grandfather. I know that Jacob B. Fowler was born between 1822 and 1825 in Tennessee. I know he married Martha Virginia Elkins in 1846. They had a daughter Laura Ann and a son Stokely D. before 1849. Virginia and the children were living with the parents, a widowed brother and his daughter and her younger brothers and sister on the 1850 Cannon Co census. Jacob hasn't been found anywhere on the 1850 census. I suspect that my Jacob B. Fowler was the J. B. Fowler for whom a warrant was issued for his arrest in Linden, Greene County, Missouri in 1853 along with another individual for "running horses on a public road" - the 1853 equivalent of drag racing. The men were never found and arrested. In 1854, Jacob and Virginia's family resumed with seven additional children born by 1866. In December of 1866, Jacob divorced Virginia in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Less than a week later, he married Susan Ford. The marriage took place in the home of Lewis Claiborne Fowler. Lewis Claiborne Fowler was the brother of Jacob B. Fowler born 1803 in Warren County Tennessee in the part of the county which later became Cannon County. I have long suspected that "My" Jacob B. Fowler was related to the other Jacob B. Fowler, but this one connection is all that I have found. The older Jacob B. Fowler was in Marshall County, Tennessee in 1840, 1850 & 1860 censuses. Jacob and Susan, along with Susan's father and step-mother, Jesse and Melinda Ford, come to Christian County sometime between the 1876 Agricultural Census and the 1880 Federal Census. Sons Stokely D. (same as first son from his first marriage) and Benjamin Brownlow were born in 1871 and 1876 somewhere in Missouri. Daughters Laura Ann (Fowler) Hart Parton Wimmer and Mary Belle (Fowler) Phillips and son Marion Huntley Fowler also lived in Christian County. Jacob was in Christian County right up through Feb 1900 when he filed a lawsuit against his youngest son Benjamin. Jacob, Susan, Stokely or Benjamin have never been found on any 1900, 1910 or 1920 census anywhere. I did just recently find a Benjamin Fowler on a 1930 Kansas Census which seems to match this son. I don't know who Jacob's birth family were, when or where he died or (one of the biggest puzzles) why he chose after divorcing his first wife to settle in the one place on earth where there were as many of her immediate family (brother H. R. J. Elkins, sister Melissa Caroline (Elkins) Melton, aunt Ann (Elkins) Brown Pendleton, uncle Jacob Melton and scores of cousins and other kin) as there were back home.