FOWLER, George Erie 1820 - 1908

FOWLER, ZEIGLER, HUSS

Posted By: nancy dorwart (email)
Date: 12/14/2003 at 17:45:19

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Monday, March 16, 1908
Page 3, Column 2

PIONEER PASSED AWAY

George Erie FOWLER passed peacefully away Sunday morning about 5:30 o'clock at his home five miles northwest of this city. Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death but he had been in ill health for the past three years.

He was born in Port Jarvis, New York, August 25, 1820, and lived there until a young man. On March 5, 1846 he was united in marriage to Annie B. ZEIGLER.

Mr. and Mrs. FOWLER immigrated to the western country settling in this county in a few years after their marriage. To them were born seven children, all of whom are living to mourn the death of their parent.

The children are, Kathrine FOWLER of Fairfield; Edmund FOWLER, Muscatine; Samuel. Hannah, Mary E and B. F. FOWLER of Fairfield and Mrs. F. W. HUSS of Afton.

Mr. FOWLER was a member of the Presbyterian church since early young manhood and was one of the most highly esteemed men of the county.

Funeral services will be held at the home Tuesday morning March 17. A large circle of friends will sympathize deeply with the bereaved wife and children.

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Wednesday, March 18, 1908
Front Page, Column 6

PIONEER PASSED AWAY

George Erie FOWLER passed peacefully away Sunday morning about 5:30 o'clock at his home five miles northwest of this city. Pneumonia was the immediate cause of his death but he had been in ill health for the past three years.

He was born in Port Jarvis, New York, August 25, 1820, and lived there until a young man. On March 5, 1846 he was united in marriage to Annie B. ZEIGLER.

Mr. and Mrs. FOWLER immigrated to the western country settling in this county in a few years after their marriage. To them were born seven children, all of whom are living to mourn the death of their parent.

The children are, Kathrine FOWLER of Fairfield; Edmund FOWLER, Muscatine; Samuel. Hannah, Mary E and B. F. FOWLER of Fairfield and Mrs. F. W. HUSS of Afton.

Mr. FOWLER was a member of the Presbyterian church since early young manhood and was one of the most highly esteemed men of the county.

Funeral services will be held at the home Tuesday morning March 17. A large circle of friends will sympathize deeply with the bereaved wife and children.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, March 18, 1908
Page 6, Columns 3 and 4

Death of a Pioneer.

George E. FOWLER died at his home in Center township Sunday morning, of pneumonia. Mr. FOWLER was born at Port Jarvis, N. Y., August 25th, 1820, where he grew to manhood. When a young man he came to Iowa, and March 5th. 1846, was married to Miss Anna B. ZEIGLER. To this union was born seven children--Katherine, Samuel, Hannah, Mary and F. B. FOWLER of this city, Edmund of Muscatine and Mrs. F. W. HUSS of Afton, who with the aged wife survive. Mr. FOWLER was a member of the Presbyterian church, and had lived true to its teachings, was a good husband and father, and a neighbor who bore the esteem of all. He was one of the early pioneers of Jefferson county, having lived on the home place sixty-two years. Funeral sevices were conducted at the residence Tuesday morning by Rev. E. M. Snook, and Interment made in Evergreen cemetery. There are many friends who will extend sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, March 18, 1908
Page 7, Column 4

George FOWLER Dead.

In the death of George E. FOWLER at his home northwest of Fairfield, Sunday, March 15, Jefferson county loses one of the sturdy pioneers that helped to make our county what it is. Mr. FOWLER had been in poor health for the past several years with the ills incident to old age, but pneumonia was the cause of his death.

He was a native New Yorker, having been born at Port Jarvis, N. Y., August 25, 1820. He grew to manhood there and came to Jefferson county and was married here to Annie B. ZEIGLER, March 5, 1846. Of their sixty-three years of married life sixty-two of them have been spent on the farm where he died. Here they lived and reared their family and the wife and seven children are left to mourn the loss of a loving husband and father.

The children are: Katherine FOWLER, Fairfield; Edmund FOWLER, Muscatine: Samuel, Hannah, Mary E. and B. F. FOWLER of Fairfield, and Mrs. F. W. HUSS of Afton.

Mr. FOWLER was always one of the most esteemed and respected citizens of the county, always ready and willing to give of his funds and labor to help along anything that was for the public good. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and his religion was of the every-day kind that wears.

Funeral services were conducted from the home Tuesday morning in charge of Rev. Ernest Snook and the large attendance was a silent testimony of the esteem and respect accorded him in the community where he spent the greater part of his life.

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"Jefferson County Republican"
Friday, March 20, 1908
Front Page, Column 1

George E. FOWLER died at his home northeast of this city March 15th, 1908. He had been in poor health for some time. He was born in Port Jarvis, New York, August 25th, 1820. He came to this county and was married to Annie B. ZEIGLER March 5, 1846. Sixty-two years of their married life have been spent on the farm where he died. The wife and seven children survive. The children are Katherine, Samuel, Hannah, Mary E., and B. J., of Fairfield, Mrs. F. W. HUSS of Afton, and Edmund of Muscatine. The funeral services were held at the home Tuesday morning, conducted by Rev. Earnest Snook.

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Friday, April 10, 1908
Page 2, Column 1

EVENTS IN MARCH
By H. Heaton.

... George E. FOWLER aged 88 died in Center township on the 15th. Mr. FOWLER lived 62 years on the home farm in this county. ...

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, April 15, 1908
Page 2, Column 6

Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us dring the illness of our father George FOWLER.

ANN BARBARA FOWLER
AND CHILDREN.

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Admin note: Buried in Lot 2nd.071. Wife Anna/Annie died in 1918 and was buried with him.