Julia
Ann Higgins was the first of the children to marry. She married John Fowler on July 12, 1849 at
the age of eighteen. The Fowlers, a
pioneer family, settled in Schuyler County in 1840, arriving in the area just
two years after the Higgins family. Julia
and John had quite a bit in common, they were both born in Ohio, both completed
a childhood trek across the country from Morgan County Ohio thus knew what it
meant to be pioneers. Thomas’s parents were James T. and Mary (Savalt)
Fowler.
Julia
and John lived right next door to Daniel and Sarah. Julia’s reported age, listed by the 1850
census taker, was twenty-two and her husband twenty-five. In reality, she was just nineteen but her
husband really was twenty-five. Their
first son Harrison Fowler (Daniel and Sarah’s first grandchild) was two months
old but was not included on the census record.
Their first daughter, Mary Jane, was born the next year in 1851. Second son, Thomas was born the next year on
September 12, 1852, and Sarah Ann joined the family on July 20, 1854.[1]
John and Julia had four children in
the first five years of their marriage, two of whom died young: Thomas in 1853 and
Sarah Ann in 1855. Julia died suddenly
at the age of twenty-five, on April 15, 1856 leaving John with two small
children, Harrison and Mary Jane, to raise by himself. Harrison moved to California, married and had
several children. Mary Jane married
Thomas Davis. She died childless in 1902.
A year after Julia died; John married
his second wife Susannah Mason, who was the sister of Julia’s
sister-in-law. Susannah’s sister, Mary
Ann had married Julia’s brother Christopher.
Susannah, age twenty-five, considered herself an “Old Maid” at the time
of her July 15, 1857 marriage. [2]
Thomas and Susannah had six children together.
Their youngest, Dora Mae Fowler married John Higgins, who was the son of
Jackson Higgins and Sarah Burnett, making him John Fowler’s nephew through his
first wife Julia. Therefore, his nephew
became his son-in-law. John passed away
in 1898; buried in the Blackburn cemetery.[3]
The family of Julia Higgins and John Fowler are:
1.
Harrison Fowler
born (1850 - )
2.
Mary Jane Fowler
born (1851 – 1902)
3.
Thomas Jackson
Fowler (1852-1853)
4.
Sarah Ann Fowler
(1854-1855)
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