John Clower

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158221003/john-clower

Wife Jane "Jenny" Perkins the daughter of Peter and Sarah Perkins.
John the son of George and Elizabeth Morgan Clower
John date of birth cira 1755 can not be confirmed at this time.

John and Jenny were the parents of
1. Peter L Clower,
2. Mary E. Clower,
3. Jacob Clower,
4. John Clower Jr.,
5.Green Clower,
6. Priscilla Clower (Hudson Ragland),
7. George Clower,
8. Peggy Clower (Arthur Moore),
9. William Clower,
10.Nancy Clower (William Redding),
11.Michael Clower,
12.Daniel Clower
13. David S Clower

"Georgia Genealogical Magazine, p. 379-Clower:" John Clower, Sr., Rev. War Soldier, signed a petition in what is now Warren Co. GA in 1774. He is said to have married there about that time. Her name was "Jenny" or "Jane", for she released dower when John Clower, Sr. sold land in Warren Co. GA on 29 Dec. 1806

John Clower was one of the earliest settler of Amite County Mississippi. Clower had a land grant in Amite County December 16, 1811. This land must have been in the part of Amite County that became Marion County about that time.

-In the 1813 tax list for Lawrence County "John Clower, 160 acres, 4th class, 1st quality of land in relation to the Pearl River waterway.

John Clower-Juror 1813.

Addition information about Jonathan and Jane’s children:

-Peter L. Clower, a Georgia Senator

-Mary Polly Clower b. 1776 married Michael Harvey from Georgia married July 30, 1796 in Warren Co., GA

-John Clower, Jr. married Mary Pleasant; 1805.
John, Jr. was in Amite County, Mississippi as early 1811. John Clower, wife Mary and seven children appears in 1816 Marion County Census. Territorial census as well as the Marion County State census show him in Marion County by 1820. (Mississippi Plat Books)
-John Clower-Juror 1813.
-Marion County Mississippi Misc. Paper Records, E Russ Williams, p. 252, "John Clower is granted liberty to establish a public ferry across the Pearl River on his land" (Court records of session 1812-1813; p. 258
-In 1815 "Ordered that John Clower be granted a license to retail spirituous liquors for six months by executing a bond to the clerk and complying with the law in every respect in such care made and provided. Which indicted he may have operated an inn.
-"Territorial Papers of Mississippi" show a Clower as signer of a list of settler west of the Pearl River, Sept 1, 1815
-July 4, 1829 appeared before Thomas C. Warner. John Clower sells 640 acres to Daniel Edwards on Tchefunta River St. Tammy Parish . John Clower to Daniel , La Vol 2 1819-1869,
-1830 Louisiana Census
-John, Jr. became postmaster August 3, 1835 in Oak Grove denoting mail service was needed on the west side of Bogue Chitto in the northwest of the parish" History of Washington Parish La 1798-1835

-William Pleasants Clower b: 1814 married 1 Juhana Lacey
2 married Susan Hays Find A Grave Memorial# 29670202 with their children. Residence: 1850 - Harrison, Texas

-William (1790-1861) and Purity Clower; daughter Lavina Millisap's son Rueben Webster Millsaps. Ruben, was a financier and philanthropist. He was a trustee of Vanderbilt University, founded Millsaps College, and President of Capital State Bank of Jackson. He built a Victorian residence Millsaps Buie House on State Street in Jackson, Mississippi.