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Ellen Brent Pearson Fowle

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Birth	:	8 Feb 1839 Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, North Carolina, USA
Death	:	13 Dec 1862 Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
Burial	:	City Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.7780190, -78.6323700
Plot	:	Section: H-9. Lot: 21
Description	:	1st WIFE OF GOV. DANIEL GOULD FOWLE OF NC (1889-1891). Ellen Brent Pearson was born 1839 in Richmond Hill, Yadkin Co, NC, the 3rd of 9 known surviving children (3 boys/6 girls) born to Judge Richmond Mumford Pearson and his wife, Margaret McClung Williams. She was the paternal grandchild of Col. Richmond Pearson of Dinwiddie, VA, who settled in the forks of the Yadkin River in the late 18th Century. Ellen's father was Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He was a prominent pro-Union Whig Party politician before the American Civil War and eventually became a Republican after... Read More	1st WIFE OF GOV. DANIEL GOULD FOWLE OF NC (1889-1891). Ellen Brent Pearson was born 1839 in Richmond Hill, Yadkin Co, NC, the 3rd of 9 known surviving children (3 boys/6 girls) born to Judge Richmond Mumford Pearson and his wife, Margaret McClung Williams. She was the paternal grandchild of Col. Richmond Pearson of Dinwiddie, VA, who settled in the forks of the Yadkin River in the late 18th Century. Ellen's father was Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He was a prominent pro-Union Whig Party politician before the American Civil War and eventually became a Republican after the war. As Chief Justice, the "domineering" Pearson helped the Court survive the Civil War and saw it through the 1868 constitutional change that made the Court justices elected by popular vote, rather than by the General Assembly. Pearson almost faced impeachment in 1870, after he was perceived by Democrats as acquiescing to Gov. William W. Holden's actions against the Ku Klux Klan. But the presence of many of Pearson's former students in the legislature is believed to have prevented him from being impeached. Instead, Pearson presided over Holden's impeachment trial, the only one in North Carolina history. Ellen met her future husband, Daniel Gould Fowle, when he came to Richmond Hill to study law under her father. He left Richmond Hill in 1853 to open a law practice in Raleigh, and the couple married 3 years later on April 30, 1856. She was just 17 years old at the nuptials, and he 25. Ellen & Daniel Fowle would become parents to 4 known children: Margaret Pearson Fowle (1857-1942), Richmond Fowle (1860-1860), Martha Barnet Marsh Fowle (1861-1943), and Brent Fowle (1862-1864). At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, her husband enlisted and served in the 14th and 31st N.C. regiments until captured and paroled at Roanoke Island. Ellen Pearson Fowle died shortly after this incident, on December 12, 1862. She was only 23 years old. She was buried in City Cemetery near her infant son, Richmond, and was later joined by her son, Brent, who died in 1864. Her widowed husband returned to Raleigh and cared for his then, 3 surviving children. During the remainder of the war years he served in the State Legislature or as State Adjutant General. Appointed in 1865 to a Superior Court judgeship, Fowle was confirmed in the appointment by the General Assembly in the summer of 1866, but resigned in the late autumn of 1867 in protest against intrusion of the federal military into judicial matters. A delegate to the 1868 conservative convention off the Constitutional Union Party (subsequently the Democratic Party), Fowle was elected chairman of the central committee and remained thenceforth a key party member. In 1866, the 35-year old widower married (2nd) Mary Eagles Haywood, the 22-year old daughter of Dr. Fabius Julius Haywood of Raleigh. She became stepmother to his 2 surviving daughters, and the couple would become parents to 4 more children. In 1870, Daniel Gould Fowle served as defense attorney in the Ku Klux Klan prosecutions, and in 1876 his name was suggested as Democratic candidate for governor (Vance, however, being nominated on the first ballot). In the hotly contested election of 1876, Fowle campaigned widely in what became a successful attempt to turn the Republican Party out of office for the first time since the end of the war. In 1880, Fowle was defeated in the gubernatorial election by Jarvis. In the 1884 campaign he fought strongly for Cleveland while standing, himself, unsuccessfully, as a candidate for Congress. In 1888 Fowle was elected governor and died suddenly in office in April, 1891. Gov. Fowle was buried in Oakwood Cemetery with his 2nd wife. Of her surviving children, daughter, Margaret Pearson Fowle, who married Philomen Andrews, is buried here in City Cemetery. Daughter, Martha, married David Bell Avera and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

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Ellen Brent Pearson Fowle death on 13 Dec 1862 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 35.7780190
Longitude: -78.6323700

Family Members:

Parent

Margaret McClung Williams Pearson

(1814 - 1855)

Spouse

Daniel Gould Fowle Famous memorial

(1831 - 1891)

Siblings

Laura Green Pearson

(1848 - 1870)

Children

Margaret Pearson “Maggie” Fowle Andrews

(1857 - 1942)

Richmond Fowle

(1859 - 1860)

Martha Barnet Marsh “Mattie” Fowle Avera

(1861 - 1943)

Brent Fowle

(1862 - 1864)

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Coordinate: 35.7780190, -78.6323700

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