Roscoe King Fowler (1877 - 1959)

Born 11 Oct 1877 in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Ellen May Fowler — married 17 Jun 1910 in Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, USA

Died 6 Jan 1959 at age 81 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA

Biography

Roscoe was born 11 October 1877 in Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota.^[1] He was the son of Thomas Seabury Fowler and Catherine Asenath King.

He married Ellen May Fowler on 17 June 1910 in Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, in a ceremony performed by Rev. Milton G. Schuman at the Owatonna Methodist Episcopal Church.^[2]

Roscoe died 6 January 1959 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan,^[3] and he is buried in Mount Ever-Rest Memorial Park South in Kalamazoo.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Jane Ellen Colingsworth, Pedigree Chart, prepared 22 October 1987. His date and place of birth is confirmed on his World War II draft registration card. The same birth date also appears on the card from World War I. The index of Michigan death certificates repeats the same information and also names his parents. “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918,” Roscoe King Fowler, b. 11 October 1877, Wood County, Wisconsin, Draft Board; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G18K-NDW : accessed August 2015). “United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” Roscoe King Fowler, b. 11 October 1877, res. Dane County, Wisconsin; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6969-B5L : accessed August 2015). “Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index, 1867–1995,” Roscoe King Fowler, 6 January 1959, Kalamazoo County; database, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FSMichiganDeath&h=473903&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t37835005_p20393949338_kpidz0q3d20393949338z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid : accessed August 2015).
2. ↑ Hennepin County, Return of Marriage, Roscoe K. Fowler and Ellen M. Fowler, 17 June 1910; digital image, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-RRQR-R : accessed August 2015). Roscoe obtained the marriage license in Hennepin County and filed the return there; however the return clearly states that the marriage occurred in Owatonna, and “this county” is struck through on the form.
3. ↑ Jane Ellen Colingsworth, Pedigree Chart, prepared 22 October 1987. “Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index, 1867–1995,” Roscoe King Fowler, 6 January 1959, Kalamazoo County; database, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FSMichiganDeath&h=473903&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t37835005_p20393949338_kpidz0q3d20393949338z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid : accessed August 2015).
4. ↑ Amy Dunn Hohler, “Roscoe King Fowler,” Memorial no. 133492182, posted 28 July 2014; memorial with photograph, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133492182&ref=acom : accessed August 2015).