Jack County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Fowler, Joseph 
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Cemetery:           Lost Creek Cemetery
Name:               Joseph Fowler

Date Of Photograph: August 10, 2008
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This is a picture of the headstone of Joseph Fowler, a long-time Jack County, 
TX resident from its' early frontier days.  Joseph married Elizabeth Ann 
Brisco on December 14, 1869 in Jack County.  Joseph and his family were no 
strangers to the dangers of living on the frontier.  Betweem the two, of their 
brothers, sisters, and parents, there were eight (8) killed, five (5) were 
wounded, one tortured, and five (5) taken captive.  They knew the rigors and 
horrors of living on the rugged frontier, but they stayed anyway, and were 
counted among the settlers of Jack County, TX.  

Joe also served as a Private in the Texas State Troops in Robert's Company in 
the Confederate service during the War for Southern Independence at age 19.  
Just three years earlier, he survived an Indian attack on his family because 
he was out looking for some strayed oxen.  He was abt 16 at the time.  

Transcription of the marker says:

JOSEPH FOWLER
1844 - 1927  

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