Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....Allen Rowe  1835 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 521-522

Allen J. Rowe

Allen J. Rowe, a prosperous and respected citizen of Meriwether county, is a 
son of James and Narcissa (Lewis) Rowe, and a brother of Capt. James A. Rowe.  
His paternal grandparents were William and Mary Rowe, those on the mother’s 
side were William and Mary Lewis, all natives of South Carolina and among the 
early settlers of Georgia.  Young Allen was born in Monroe county in 1835 and 
early transferred to Meriwether county, where he passed his childhood and 
youth upon the farm, gaining such education as he could with his scant 
opportunities.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company B of the First Georgia cavalry, 
under Capt. Strickland.  He fought in many of the hardest battles of the war: 
Big Hill, Murfreesboro, Perrysville, Chickamauga, Philadelphia, and was in the 
force that surrendered at Salisbury, N.C.  After the surrender he returned to 
his home on the farm, to the careful and wise management of which he has ever 
since devoted himself.  Mr. Rowe has worked with energy and planned with care, 
and has thus acquired wealth and enlarged and greatly increased the value of 
his broad and beautiful plantation, and is a man to whom all give the esteem 
he merits.  He has a large and promising family.  He wife was Miss Harriet 
Malcolm, daughter of Alexander and Mahala (Nelson) Malcolm, the former a 
native of Walton county, in which he died in 1859.  Mrs. Rowe was born in 
Meriwether county in 1840, and is a member of the Primitive Baptist church.  
Mr. Rowe belongs to the Masonic fraternity.  They were married in 1855 and 
have been blessed with thirteen children: Alice, Ella, William, Lewis, Hattie, 
Savannah, Alexander, James, Nannie, Stella, Mattie J., Henry C. and Jackson


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