Memorial Resolution on Littleton Fowler

Resolution on Littleton Fowler by the East Texas Annual Conference, February 10, 1846.

Addressed to Missouri Porter Fowler, this resolution honors the memory of her second husband, Rev. Littleton Fowler, who died in 1846 at the age of forty-two. Missouri Fowler was a young widow when she married Littleton Fowler in 1838. They often traveled together to church meetings and as he made his ministerial rounds. After her second child was born, Missouri Fowler remained in Sabine County managing their farm and household and raising their growing family. She traded livestock, supervised the help, bought and sold land, and oversaw construction, allowing her husband to become a Texas Methodist leader.

After Littleton Fowler died, leaving her with three children, Missouri Porter Fowler married another Methodist minister, Rev. John C. Woolam (1813–1894). Over the next four decades they served more than twenty appointments in Texas. When Missouri died in 1891 at the age of eighty-four she was known as the “Sainted Matriarch of the East Texas Conference.” 

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