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Surnames: Clower, Cowan, Zachry
Classification: Query
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I attended the funeral of Vernon "Doodle" Leon Clower in Alvord, Texas. He is indeed a great-grandson of Daniel F. Clower and Sarah Jane Nunn. I met Vernon Clower's surviving brother, and his children. One of Vernon Clower's children has a strong interest in the family history. I was able to speak with all of them.
http://www.wf.net/~drycreek/alvord-a-e.htm is a link to the Alvord Cemetery, where all the family seems to have been buried beginning with George Daniel Clower, son of Daniel F. Clower and Sarah Jane Nunn.
Vernon Clower had been a Wise County Commissioner. The sign at the city limits of Alvord, where the family has been for four generations since George Daniel Clower came there, said "Population 1009". The church was filled to overflowing; I would guess about 300 people. He seems to have been a well liked and respected person.
I asked about where Daniel F. Clower and Sarah Jane Nunn Clower were buried. One of the sons believes it was in Shiloh Cemetery, also called Ables/Shiloh Cemetery, which is in far northwest Cooke County. He says that one of his uncles was taken there long ago to see the site, but that the graves are
unmarked. He is going to sit down and go through his files to be sure of the information he told me, but he thinks he remembers that Sarah Jane (Nunn) Clower died of typhoid fever in 1873, and that Daniel F. Clower and one of the sons
came back sick from a cattle drive in bad weather and both died of pneumonia.
They didn't remember having heard of Jennie Lu Clower, or her sister Lula Clower who married Alonzo Perry Zachry. Alonzo Zachry was a son of Abner Zachry by his first wife, Priscilla Hagan (sp?). Abner then married Amelia Nunn. Some of them were familiar with the book "Nunns of the South", but didn't recall the Amelia Nunn Zachry (sister of Sarah Jane Nunn Clower) link to the Zachry family.
The children said they didn't have lots of "dates" type info, but rather had a lot of family stories that were handed down. I hope this can help me figure out more about the family's travels. They were aware that the children of Daniel F. and Sarah Jane Clower had been split up between the Zachry family and the Lee Nunn family.
I do not know if you have seen this website; there is a fair amount of info on our Clowers and Zachrys, but they do not have much on descendents of most of Daniel F. Clower's children.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6843/htmldb/fidx_c.html#clower
I have about run out of what I can find on the internet, and finally went to the Fort Worth Public Library which seems to have a fair amount of genealogical materials. I found a book "Marriage Records of Smith County, Texas, 1846-1899" that listed the marriage of "Cowen, ED and Jennie Lu
Clowers 5 Dec 1886". Note the different spellings of the names! Their son Claude Emerson Cowan was born 12-24-1887.
The same book also has "Zachry, Lon and Lula Clower 15 Nov. 1881". This is Alonzo Perry Zachry. Lula Clower is one of the Clower children seen in the census living with the Zachry family after their parents died.
Gary Cowan
Fort Worth, Texas
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Surnames: CLOWER, BAKER
Classification: Obituary
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Posted as a random act of genealogical kindness, no relation to me and no further info available from me, sorry. Copied here under the Fair Use provisions for non-commercial research use, qualifying under subsections (1) - (4) of U.S. Code Title 17 Chapter 1 Sec. 107 regarding copyrights. -- LS
Published in the Ft. Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram on 11/19/2004.
Vernon "Doodle" Clower 1930 - 2004
Vernon "Doodle" Clower, 74, a rancher, died Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004, in Alvord.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Alvord. Burial: Alvord Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Coker Funeral Home.
Vernon "Doodle" Clower was a former Wise County commisioner for Precinct 2.
Survivors: Former wife Thelma Clower; daughter, Brenda Baker; sons, Kerry and Jeff Clower; brother, Garvin Clower; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
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