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Joseph Fowler was born in South Carolina in 1796. He enlisted in the War of 1812 at the courthouse in Pendleton, South Carolina, and served from 1 February 1815 to 24 March 1815 as a private in Lt. Col. Wm. Austin's Regiment of South Carolina, Drafted Militia. He was discharged at Three Sisters (Georgia?) on the Savannah River and received compensation of $14.19 for his service. Joseph and his wife Lucy were members of The Peters Colony in The Republic of Texas. Joseph signed Barkdales's List with an "X" as a "family man" prior to July 1, 1845. Coontown Caney Church in Fannin County, Texas, was organized the third Sunday of March 1848 by elders Joseph Fowler, Lucy Fowler, Lydia Hutchins and others. A permanent meeting place was established in 1856. Joseph Fowler's grandchildren from his son Daniel (Mary Ann Fowler, Hiram Fowler and Joseph Calvin Fowler) were present at the Comanche Indian attack at Jacksboro on 26-27 November 1860.

Muchino, Gregory and Susan, A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captives in the West 1830-1885 (Caxton Press, Caldwell, ID, 2007), Chapter 4. Connor, Seymour V., The Peterson Colony of Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Assn., 1959, reprinted 2005), p. 254.