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Saxony. The one-thousandth anniversary of King Henry's death was
celebrated last year (1936).
Reference: Calendarlum Genealoglcum Volume 2, page 602.
There is an interesting note in history that Otto The Illustrious was such a
wise ruler of Saxony that neighboring people asked him to rule them but he
declined as his own people kept him busy but his son, Henry the Fowler,
united the Saxons, Franks, etc. into what is now the modem Germany.
Some of his descendants were such good fighters that the King of France
offered them Normandy to live in if they would fight his battles. Later they
helped William the Conqueror gain the throne of England.

An old and rare book, published in the early days of type-setting, contains
what I have not seen elsewhere, viz; the origin and signification of all the
family names in England. This book said that a Saxon chief, fond of the
chase, and being a daring hunter, was called Fowler. This Fowler,
accompanied by a numerous band of retainers and followers, went to
England about a hundred years before the destruction of the Heptarchy,
and the union of all the kingdoms of England into one, under Egbert. He
settled in Sussex, and according to this old chronicle, the Fowler family had
never failed to have a representative member from the eighth century to
that present time of writing, to wit: in the early part of the sixteenth
century.

Although the early chronicles of the country speak of several members of
the Fowler family as being distinguished for conduct in arms in the local
wars of the times, it will be seen that the professions of law, literature and
the Church, have been mostly chosen as fields of labor and usefulness, by
the descendants of the Hunters and Fowlers."

Dr. Edmund Fowler
New York

Daniel Fowler was bom in 1714 in Virginia. He married Mary Rollins in 1740.
On the first of June 1776, Daniel enlisted in Armstrong's Company, First Regiment, under
Colonel Thomas Clark. Even though Daniel Fowler was 62 years of age , he served as a
private for three years as a Revolutionary War Soldier. He was discharged the 28th day of
June 1779.
John Fowler Sr., born in 1741, son of Daniel and Mary Rollins Fowler, married
his first wife, Hannah Sutton, in 1765. John Fowler, Sr., also served in the Revolutionary
War under Richard James Kenan. While living in North Carolina, John Fowler, Sr.
acquired 1, 790 acres of land. The children of John and Hannah were: William, Thomas,
James, Beaman, Samuel, Hardy and Martha. At the age of 96 years, John Fowler moved
to Milo, Alabama, (now Spring Hill, Al). The "Census of Pensioners", Pike County,
Dated 1 June 1840 page 149, lists John Fowler age 99. This information is also listed in
Owen History of Alabama. Two of his great grandsons, one from Pike and one from