Alexander W Fowler

1845 - 1918  (73 years)

• Name	Alexander W Fowler
  Birth	1845	Alabama
  Gender	Male
  Census	16 Aug 1860	Guadalupe Co, TX ; Alex W, age 15, born AL, living with parents
  Death	1 Nov 1918	Austin, Travis, TX
  Burial	2 Nov 1918	Texas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
  Person ID	I59	Joanne's Tree
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Mark Fowler,   b. 4 Apr 1818, North Carolina d. 1 Dec 1890, Burnet Co, TX (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Mary Elizabeth “Betsey” Jones,   b. 1820, South Carolina d. 7 Jul 1877, Texas (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  from written biography (findagrave.com) A.W. Fowler was born in Texas in 1837. He moved to the Central Texas area where he was mustered into service as a private on September 27, 1861. Fowler was a member of the 6th Texas Infantry Company A. After the regiment was created, it proceeded to Arkansas. The regiment was taken prisoner here at Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Arkansas on January 11, 1863. Fowler was among the men captured and was sent to Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. The regiment was exchanged with the Confederacy and was sent east of the Mississippi to Tennessee. Here they were consolidated with the 10th Texas Infantry and the 15th Texas Cavalry in May 1863. This new regiment participated in several battles in Tennessee. They were first engaged in Chickamauga, then in Nashville, next Murfreesboro and finally in Bentonville. Fowler states he ended his service on September 1, 1864, but military records show him being enrolled in St. Mary's U.S.A. Hospital in Montgomery Alabama for unknown battle injuries in 1865. After the war Fowler worked as a farmer and laborer. By 1898 he was living in Austin, Texas and on June 19, 1918, he was admitted to the Confederate Home. Fowler died of paralysis on November 1, 1918 at the age of 81. from "Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982" (ancestry.com) A.W. Fowler, a widowed inmate at the confederate home, born 1837 (exact date not known) in TX died on 1 Nov 1918 in Travis, Austin, TX of paralysis from senility. Burial on 2 Nov at the state cemetery. Informant Annie S Nollett, conf. home sec'y.