Histories

Descendant Marlene Galwardi of San Antonio, Texas gave the following biography of Patriot Stowers: “Lewis Stowers was born in Orange County, Virginia about 1763 or 1764 and was about 12 years old at the beginning of the American Revolution. By the time of the war’s end in October 1781 he would have been 17 or 18 years old. Patriot Stowers entered the service from Orange County, Virginia just northeast of present day Charlottesville. He served as a Private under Captain Richard White’s Company of Colonel Taylor’s regiment of the Virginia Continental Line, also known as the “Green Coat Regiment”. By his own testament he states he guarded the British and Hessian prisoners at Culpepper, Orange and Albemarle Counties and marching from Winchester to the Allegheny Mountains and back to Winchester again.

After the war he married Jocie Shiflet in Virginia on July 4, 1786. They moved to Georgia in approximately 1790 where they raised their family in what was then Elbert County. In 1827 Patriot Stowers drew land in the Georgia land lottery as a revolutionary War veteran.

Eventually, Lewis Stowers moved to DeKalb County with his wife Jocie and his younger son, Lewis Stowers, Jr. and his wife, Henrietta. Lewis received a pension for his services while a resident of DeKalb County, Georgia. When Lewis Stowers died on November 22, 1844, he was buried in the Stowers Family Cemetery on property owned today by the Georgia Power Company.” A grave marking service was held on June 16, 2001.