Gwinnett-Wilcox County GaArchives Obituaries.....Clower, John Wesley March 5, 1906
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The Gwinnett Journal, Saturday, 10 March 1906, page 1
Pioner [sic] Citizen Passed Away:  An Incident in Which Father saved his Son's 
Life.
     The passing of John Wesley Clower, of Rockbridge district, removes from 
the county another pioneer citizen.
     His birth occurred in Martins district, January 14th, 1821 and at the 
ripe old age of eighty-five years, two months and twenty days, on Sunday 
night, March the 5th instant he passed into the great beyond.
     On the 20th of March 1840, he was married to Sarah Martin, sister of A. 
J. Martin and S. C. Martin, of Pinkeyville district.
     To them were born Daniel M. Clower, county commissioner, Thomas A. 
Clower, Misses Julia and Caroline Clower, Mrs. J. W. Campbell, Mrs. Salena 
Humphries, of Rocdbrige district; Mrs. L. W. Olds, of Pitts, Ga.; John W. 
Clower, of Villa Rica; Mrs. Mack Davis, of Monroe, all living.
     In the words of his grand son, our fellow townsman G. W. Clower, Mr. 
Clower was born, bred, lived and died a Methodist.  He professed to be a 
Christian and lived up to his profession.
     At the sound of cannon in the civil war he entered service and gave the 
best years of his life in defense of his country.  No braver soldier ever 
shouldered a gun in this great conflict.
     He was a fine marksman and at the age of seventy-five when a life sized 
portrait of Major Henderson was offered for the best shot by any surviving 
member of the 42nd Georgia of which he was a member, Mr. Clower wen to 
Atlanta, took a shot, hit the bull's eye and won the coveted prize.
     he was very fond of telling his grand children stories of the war and 
told Mr. Clower, above mentioned of this city, the following incident in which 
he saved his oldest son's life:
     "Dan was lying behind the breastworks and I was a little distance away in 
plain view of him and the 'sharpshooters' of the enemy.  I saw one raise his 
gun and aim at my son, but before he could perform the deadly work, I sent a 
bullet through his body and saved my boy's life."
     He never sought a county office but for years was a jury revisor of the 
county.
     Blest be the memory of men, like Wesley Clower, who spend long, useful 
lives in this county and leave behind them honored offsprings as their living 
monuments.

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