John
Sterling
Fowlkes
Born in Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph A. Fowlkes
and Mary (Jennings) Fowlkes
Brother of
Jerusa Fowlkes, Thomas Jefferson Fowlkes, Thomas Archer Fowlkes, Lucy Fowlkes, Joseph Jennings Fowlkes Jr., Sterling Fowlkes, Elizabeth Fowlkes, William Fowlkes Sr., Austin Fowlkes and Sarah Fowlkes
Husband of
Unknown Fowlkes
— married
1787 in Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
William Fowlkes
Died
at about age 53
in Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Nov 2015
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Biography
John was born in 1755. He is the son of Joseph Fowlkes and Mary Jane Jennings.[1]
Research Notes
A DAR record for John Fowlkes with the same dates (1755-1808) has his wife as Nancy Ward and lists a son, Austin, who married Amelia Griffin.[2]
A DAR descendant record for John Fowlkes (#A040964) shows his wife - married 18 September 1787 - as Nancy Newby, born in Farmville, Virginia and died after 19 December 1808. Their son Austin, born in Virginia on 3 April 1808 (died 1 October 1855 in Memphis) married Amelia Griffin, born in Kentucky on 19 April 1817 (died 22 June 1863 in Memphis). They married on 12 September 1833. Their daughter, Cornelia Amelia Fowlkes, born in Kentucky on 22 October 1836 (died Yazoo City, Mississippi on 25 May 1901), married Charles A McDonald on 12 April 1854. He was born in Ireland in 1824 and died at the Battle of Shiloh on 7 April 1862. Note - DAR descendant records are good for leads but are not considered to be reliable.[3]
The FamilySearch PID that this profile cited has different dates as of 7 August 2023 (c1745-1824) and is not married to a Nancy Ward and does not have a son named Austin.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Source in profile as of 5 August 2023: "FSFTID L7FL-Y5K" - FamilySearch Person: L7FL-Y5K. But that FamilySearch PID is for a different John Fowlkes: John Field Fowlkes (abt.1745-1824).
- ↑ John Fowlkes, DAR Ancestor A040964 (accessed 6 August 2023).
- ↑ DAR descendant record for Austin Fowlkes, son of John Fowlkes (c1755-1808) and Nancy Newby (-after 1808), accessed 13 August 2023.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Stephen Fowlkes
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test, haplogroup I-P37 - Dana Fowlkes :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-P37, FTDNA kit #IN58571
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~1.56%
Bernadine Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A381567 [compare]
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~1.56%
Lee Fulk :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A690351 [compare], yourDNAportal LEE3073cf8c, Ancestry member LeeLeeF
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A690351 [compare], yourDNAportal LEE3073cf8c, FTDNA kit #AM44337
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch A690351 [compare], yourDNAportal LEE3073cf8c
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Ellen (Bryant) Saunders :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A461759 [compare], Ancestry member rsaundersjr1
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~0.78%
Jeff Moore :
MyHeritage DNA
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Their sources attached to that PID are also attached to the FamilySearch PID for John Field Fowlkes Jr (about 1745–6 February 1823): FamilySearch Person: L7FL-Y5K.