WILLIAM MARION FOWLER

My great-grandfather, and namesake, William Marion Fowler, was born 5 December 1836, Marshall County, TN., to John Lee and Rhoda Hill Fowler. He married 1) Sarah Ann Morris, 21 August 1856, Marshall County, TN., 2) Sarah Hall, 22 August 1861, Marshall County, TN., 3) Mary Elizabeth Hardiman, 19 December 1888, Cornersville, Marshall County, TN. William left Marshall County sometime between 1891 and 1905, and moved to Hunt County, TX, where he died 15 August 1905. William and Mary are buried at the McWright Cemetery in Hunt County, TX.

William Atlas Fowler Family
My line comes from William's marriage to his second Wife, Sarah Hall. She was born 1837 in TN., and died 17 July 1870. She and William had 8 children: 1) Base, born 10 June 1876, married 2nd wife, Ruthie French Dickson on 3 August 1911, Bedford County, TN., and died 19 February 1935 2) Claude, born in Cornersville, TN., and married Anna Bell King 3) Mark, married Alma Walker 4) Annie, born 1865 5) Lannie, born 1868 6) Flora, married Steve Turner 7) Lucinty, married Jim Tate 8) William Atlas Lee, (my Grandfather), born 13 January 1866, Cornersville, Marshall County, TN.

William Atlas married Callie Lee Hamilton, 9 December 1887, in Marshall County, TN. Callie was born 22 August 1870 in TN. They moved to Hunt County, TX sometime between 1887 and 1893, and had 10 children: I ) Edna, born 6 January 1889, died 12 July 1895 2) W. Owen, born 12 April 1891, died 19 July 1895 3) Elmo Lee, born 11 March 1892, died from diptheria 4) Mattie Eula, born 29 March 1893, Hunt County, TX, married Emmett Benjamin Fitzgerald, 5 April 1914, Hunt County, TX and she died 21 May 1860, Hunt County, TX 5) William Marion, (my father), "Willie", born 16 June 1898 and died 1961 in Hunt County, TX 6) Verno Young, born 11 March 1900, Hunt County, TX, died 28 July 1944, Houston, Harris County, TX 7) Irene Pearle 8) Ray Richard 9) Effie 10) Hazel Pauline, born 6 January 1911, Lorraine, TX and died in Hunt County, TX.

William Atlas died 2 July 1952, in Hunt County, TX and Callie died 20 July 1959 in Hunt County, TX. They are both buried at loof Cemetery in Caddo Mills, TX.



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Lennis Geiken
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