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| Fowler, John Hopkins 239160 |
| Birth: 00/00/1796 Death: 00/00/1873 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: Headstone, Researcher-Submitted Info |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (03/21/2025) |
| Notes Information from THE JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA 1630-1934, by Skipper Steely for Cecile Denton Roden, from her notes and research, published 1985: “Some Historical Notes on Eli Barnett, John Woodson Denton, and John H. Fowler Three of the First Settlers in the Roxton Area. (Lee Cemetery Is Located on the John H. Fowler Survey.) Betsy Woodson first married Eleaser Barnett in Kentucky. By him she had at least one son, Eli, and perhaps more, Eleaser died about 1816, and she was left with several of his children plus her own. She then married Thomas J. Denton when Eli was about nine years old. Soon after 1819, they headed for Pecan Point on the Red River, located in what was then old Miller Co., Arkansas, arriving in 1823. They moved to Clear Creek with other settlers, one of which was John H. Fowler. Thomas J. died in early 1825, and Betsy then married John H. Fowler about December of 1825. The Indians of the area were friendly in general, but some lurked nearby that were not so friendly, and also there were violent storms, disease, and accidents, which took the lives of many early-day settlers. Betsy lost her life to one of these in 1827 or 1828. About 1827, the last decision was made for the settlers to leave the area north of the Red River. The southern half of the county remained as a part of the Territory of Arkansas, but most settlers aligned themselves with Mexico as residents of the Province of Texas, State of Coahuilla. They signed the Wavel Colony register, and did most anything to insure ownership of their property on the south side of the Red River. Some even paid taxes to both Arkansas and to the Mexican government, and at for a while at a later date, they had a representative to both Arkansas, and the Republic of Texas. Eli Barnett (about 20 years of age) chose to remain with George Wright, one of the earliest settlers of the area, opposite the Kiamichi River. Fowler, at the time, chose to take one of the land grants offered by Arkansas to replace the one he had. It is believed that John Woodson Denton, his step-son, returned to the Arkansas Territory with him. However, family stories say he left him at the age of ten, after a disagreement, and took a herd of cattle to Eli Barnett’s, who was his half-brother. It is believed that at times some ventured farther west, even as far as what is now the Bonham, Fannin County area. The eastern part of what is now Lamar County began to be settled about 1833, but the west was still rather dangerous. White settlers soon began to move into the Prairie Mount (Roxton) area. John Fowler moved back to Texas in 1834, and despite these dangers, he, Eli Barnett, Jacob and Isaac Lyday, Jesse & Eli Shelton, and others put claims on land sometime between 1834-1837. Fowler got land just southwest of Eli Barnett. Shelton chose southeast of Roxton, and established a fort there in 1837. Eli Barnett picked a location on a tributary of the North Sulphur near Cane Creek, and John Woodson Denton built a cabin in the northwest section of this survey -about where the Roxton School is today. It is believed that the drove cattle to Barnett’s place as early as 1833. Fort Lyday was constructed in 1836 to help protect the inhabitants from Indians. It was eight miles southwest of the Barnett place. In 1837, Daniel Davis, grandfather of Rhoda Davis Rush, who is buried in Lee Cemetery, moved his family to a place on the North Sulphur in what is now Fannin County. Most settlers moved into Fort Lyday in 1838, but when it appeared that Indian raids had apparently ceased, some left the fort by 1839 in order to tend their land - this included Davis, his wife Nancy, and son Andrew. Daniel Davis rose early in the morning and ask the maid to prepare breakfast. While eating, she told them she thought she heard Indians in the night, but Davis felt secure, since a heavy rain had fallen the night before, and a scouting party of 12 to 14 stopped at the Davis home for shelter. The Indians were hidden in the woods, and when Davis left his house, they shot him and a young man named Gothlin. The scouts appeared and the Indians left. He was taken to James McFarland’s place, three miles east, where he died that evening. By 1842, the Indians were no longer a threat to the farmers of western Lamar County, and many settlers began to come in the late 1840’s and 1850?s. John Fowler and Eli Barnett now lived neighbors, and in 1867, John Fowler was Postmaster of Prairie Mount (Roxton), and John W. Denton followed him.” Tombstone is inscribed with years of birth and death only. Tombstone is inscribed, “In Memory Of Grandfather.“ |