East Texas Family Records, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 1986 Page: 2
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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL, 10, O, 2, SU R 6
ANDERSQN COUNTY - "EARLY PO NEEM "RS"
submitted by Linda Stuard
Palestine, Texas
JUDGE W. G. W. JOWERS
Few names in Anderson County history bear greater weight than JOWERS. Judge
W. G. W. JOWERS, was born in North Carolina. His father, James J., was a farmer.
He moved in learly life to Tennessee where he died forty years later. He dis- -
tinguished himself by serving in the Creek Indain War with JACKSON. An ancestor,
Thomas JOWERS, of Scotch descent fought in the Revolutionary War.
Judge JOWERS'mother was Mary CLARK, daughter of Thomas CLARK, a planter of
North Carolina. W. G. W. JOWERS was reared in Tennessee and Mississippi. After
choosing medicine for his profession he enrolled in the medical department of
Transylvania University of Lexington, Kentucky. Graduating from this institution
in 1835, he located in Monroe County, Mississippi, where he practived medicine
until he was sent to the Mississippi Legislature. He served 1838-1839. On termination
of his service in the legislature, Texas called. The romantic side of
the young doctor-legislator responded and the end of March saw W. G. W. JOWERS'
arrival in Nacogdoches where he immediately joined the Texan Army which was engaged
in excursions against the Indians. He was assistant surgeon during Lamar's
administration.
From Nacogdoches he removed to Crockett in 1841, where he practiced medicine
till 1846. When the new county, Anderson, was cut off from Houston in 1846,
Judge JOWERS came to Palestine. He found work to do new field and promptly did
it. He cut down trees on the first road leading into the new town site! He
practiced medicine in Palestine till 1848, when he was sent to the Legislature.
For sixteen years thereafter he was kept in public office, as representative or
senator. In 1868, he was elected County Judge of Anderson County to serve three
terms. In 1880, he was again elected, and also held the office of County Clerk.
He was a Mason, reaching all the degrees to Scottish Rite. The benefits such a
citizen bestows on his community may not be over-estimated. Naturally, the name
of Judge JOWERS is recalled today with a general feeling of grateful appreciation.
Judge JOWERS had a large family who were all prominent in the cultural development
of Anderson County. The names of his children follow: Mrs. Annie
Jowers FORMWALT, Richard (Dick) JOWERS, George JOWERS, Mollie (Mrs. D. J. PRICE),
Maggie (Mrs. F. T. RENNIE), Myrtle (Mrs. Sam S. SMITH), Louise (Mrs. W. F. FLANAGAN),
Bessie (Mrs. R. E. BOYLE), Corinne (Mrs. W. T. BOWDON).
D. B. GRIGSBY
In the year of 1835, a long wagon train wound its way south-westward from
Illinois to Texas. In the personnel of its heads of families was John Crawford
GRIGSBY, a man destined to become one of Texas' outstanding defenders. The
colonists settled in Houston County.
D. B. GRIGSBY, the son of John C. GRIGSBY, was born February 15, 1840, near
Crockett, Houston County, Texas. His birth thus occurring six years before Texas
was admitted to the Union. D. B. Grigsby had the experience of living under three2
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East Texas Genealogical Society. East Texas Family Records, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 1986, periodical, Summer 1986; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38033/m1/4/?q=%22East+Texas+Genealogical+Society%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting East Texas Genealogical Society.