BORN IN: Missouri
DIED: 1/25/1905
AGED: 88
CAUSE OF DEATH: Congestion of Lungs
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
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BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 129:
- Ayers, Allie
- Ayers, Ann Amelia
- Ayers, Charles
- Ayers, Henry L
- Ayers, James Becknell
- Ayers, James
- Ayers, John
- Ayers, Mary A (d.1854)
- Ayers, Mary Ann
- Ayers, Mary Tidy
- Pritchard, Anna M A
- Pritchard, Elizabeth
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
- 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
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OBITUARY ---------------LEWIS FOWLER
Redwood City Democrat
January 26, 1905
Lewis Fowler, the old blind colored man, died at his home on the Island last night. The deceased was a native of Missouri, aged 80 years. He had been ill several weeks. During his younger years, Fowler was a slave. After the war, he accompanied his old master to San Jose and was given enough property to make his life comfortable, but he was swindled out of his holdings. He afterwards became a white washer and lost his eyesight.
He had resided in Redwood, the past eighteen years and was a county pensioner.
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R.C. Democrat February 2, 1905
Louis Fowler, the old colored man who died last Wednesday evening, was laid to rest in Union Cemetery Friday afternoon, the funeral taking place from James Crowe’s undertaking parlors. The deceased was decently clothed for the grave and lay in a neat coffin provided by Mr. Crowe, who had highly esteemed the old man. A bouquet of fragrant flowers, the kind offering of Miss Crowe, rested on the coffin. The deceased was interred outside of the paupers row. Rev. Wilfred Kent conducted services at the grave.
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