Meaford, June 26th 1844

Mr & Mrs Fowler,

Dear Aunt & Uncle,

We were very much surprised to receive a letter from you after an absence of so many years. My Father thought you would have fulfilled your promise to him though we have frequently heard from Uncle George.

We are very glad to hear you are all well and in such prosperous circumstances.... My Father's health is very good were you to see him you sould think him very little altered only a little older of course. Mother's  health is upon the whole better. My eldest and third Sisters are married and are living at home. THey married their two cousins Thomas and William Emery. They are doing very well indeed. Ann has no family. Mary has one son two years old. She expects to be confined again in the present month. Sarah and I are living at home. Uncle Samuel's son Stephen is married and has four children. He is keeping a Bean house and Hucksters shop. He is making a comfortable living.....Your Uncle Thomas Mear and his son are both dead. Your Aunt Silverton died in the beginning of the year. Uncle Charle's widow is married to a Gentleman in Stockport. Uncle Thomas's I don't know anything of. ...Mrs Robinson is well, she is living where she did. Her brother W. Boulton is living near to her in very reduced circumstatnces. His sons have spent the greatest part of his property. Mrs. Shelly is well, her daughter Louisa died about 12 years since she was married and her husband left her with one child, a son which Mrs Shelly has reared.  You have heard no doubt of Aunt Barlow's death. Mrs Whiston as  left the Farm and is living in the Mierlane. She has been very ill of the Typhus fever in the spring but she is recovering now. The fever as been very prevalent in Caverswall this last year, there as been as many as 13 funerals in the month of April. Old Simcox Thomas brasington and Mrs Fielding are dead. Mr Fielding is not likely to recover. Mrs Heath of Cooks Hill and Mrs Smith of Weston are dead. They both died very sudden. Provisions have been very low these last three years. Cheese...forty to forty five Jive Jat Cows last autumn from 4/a to 5 pigs 3/sh. The present summer is very dry we have had no rain for the last ten weeks, there is every prospect of things being very scarce. I hope Dear Aunt now you have commenced writing you will let us have a letter from you at least onve a year. Present our kind love to Aunt and Uncle Ibbs, Aunt and Uncle Francis Mear and the rest of our relation and accept of our united love to you both.
    I Remain Your Affectionate Niece,
Elizabeth Mear
 

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Margaret, I am very glad you have kept your word in writing to me thou you have been a long time about it and I hop eand trust you will keep your word untarnished to all mortals as I have a great aversion to an untruth and I am glad to hear you are all going on so well in America and I have to tell you that I have as much of this worlds goods as is of any use to me and I had and trust you will....think of Earthly possessions asll together....we shall soon have....hear and pleas  to give my best respects to Brother Francis and his wife and to Sister Ann and Ibbs and except the same yourself and Richard from your loving Brother,

Stephen Mears

Mosford July 10th, 1844

N-B we have a very dry time in England and our Crops of grapes and Lentoncorn unusually light but I have got about half my usual quantity of hay. But the wheat is pretty good and will be ripe in the present month which is unusually early.

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George & Isabel (McIntosh) Fowler
(photo dated 12/1983)
 
 

Letters & Photographs from George Fowler

Jan. 3, 1995

Dear Mary Lou,

Thanks for remembering my sister Florence. She hasn't been right for more than 4 years -- getting weaker and more confused. Our best guess is that she is having a series of small strokes. She is getting good care in the nursing facility at the same place my wife and I live. Our apartment is about 500 feet from her building. Florence and Jessie came to Carol Woods [in Chapel Hill, NC] about 1983, but we came much later, in 1992.

Yes, I remember Chester, the enclosed picture is yours. I'm on his right with Florence and our Mother on the bench below me. We swam in Lake Erie at Geneve -- about 1938 or 39.

Now you know why Florence doesn't answer. After all, she will soon be 87, which sounded old a few years back but not any more. We just can't stop the clock from running.

Best wishes to you & family,
Sincerely,
George Fowler

back row: George Fowler, Chester McMullen, Henry C. McMullen
seated: Florence Fowler, Georgiana (Pebbles) Fowler, Hazel (Wright) Kerr, Donna (Wright) Warner, Mary Maude (Wright) McMullen
At Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, ca. 1938-9

 

Feb. 28, 1995

Dear Cousin Mary,

Thanks for the contributions in January and again this month. We've been distracted by local events. Florence died in Jan. 22.

The Mercer Co. information on the Peebles is perhaps fairly accurate. Besides, they lived in Venango & Crawford Co's. Under K. John is the "2. George A." which is really my mother, Georgiana. "4. Roxsie" was really Rosie. on my family, #5 was Florence F. (1908-1995) and I'm #6 [sic. referring to a family outline sent to him]

Most other members of the Peebles family were unknown to me. Under Robert the #10 was George. I knew him, his widdow and 2 daughters.

Contrary to what you might think, I have not caught the genealogy bug -- my immune system seems to allow me to throw it off easily. Therefore, I'm sending you some pictures. They may be of some interest to you. If they were to stay here too long they would end up in the land-fill for sure.

The picture of Uncle Wright's birthday party is of interest but I can't identify most people. My father is behind the little boy in the middle. My mother is behind him. My sister Jessie is front row, left. The child on Uncle's lap is Florence at three and a half. Ralph Kerr is extreme right.

I hope you have much luck with your fishing expedition. We'll reserve royal treatment til you make the King Egbert connection.

Sincerely,
George

 

George W. Wright's birthday gathering
Lakehouse Hotel, Stoneboro, PA
July 19, 1911

 

(from left to right)
Edwin, George, Isabel, Florence,
Georgiana (their mother) & Dick Fowler
photo dated Aug. 1, 1949, Pittsburgh, PA
 

Ann (Fowler) Egbert,
wife of John Nixon Egbert
photo taken ca. 1889

Mary (Fowler) Mears,
wife of Richard Mears
photo taken 1889, Sandy Lake, PA

 

Eliza E. (Fowler) Carmichael (Betsy)
There is another photo of her with her husband
in the Carmichael Family Outline.

Richard, Jr., and his wife, Mary (Buckley) Fowler. These 2 photographs taken at Brownsville, Mercer Co., PA. The photo on the right is an earlier photo of Mary (Buckley) Fowler.

Obituary Card, given at Richard Fowler's funeral
 

Mary Ann Fowler,

 daughter of Richard & Mary Fowler photo taken 1890, Sandy Lake, PA
  

William Fowler (1/16/1819-1889)
photo on left ca. 1888, photo on right undated

Simon Fowler (12/22/1816-12/9/1890)
photo taken 1890, Sandy Lake, PA

Sarah (Fowler) Mears,
daughter of Richard & Mary Fowler
photo ca. 1889
 
 

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