When Nancy Ann Elizabeth Fowler was born in February 1850, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, Lorenzo Dow Fowler, was 35 and her mother, Mary Fowler, was 24. She married John Shelby Wallace on 13 October 1870, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cherokee, Colbert, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died in June 1905, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 55.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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