Fowlkes, Charles Grannison

Birth Name Charles Grannison Fowlkes 1 2
Nickname Gran
Gender male

Events

Birth Jul 24, 1822;  Alleghany County, NC
Death Feb 10, 1913;  Alleghany County, NC
Burial NC 1304,Off 113 In Flat Woods,To Left Of Barn At Didney Blevins Home 3
Occupation

Families

Wife Amanda Melvina Toliverb. Feb 25, 1824d. May 22, 1905
Marriage Feb 15, 1846
 
Children Columbus Toliver Fowlkesb. Jan 2, 1847d. Apr 9, 1920
Patience Frances Fowlkesb. Jul 1, 1848 
Rebecca Caroline Fowlkesb. Aug 4, 1850 
Tobytha Amanda Fowlkesb. Oct 28, 1852d. Apr 22, 1932
Phoebe Elizabeth Fowlkesb. Sep 23, 1854d. Apr 21, 1942
Nancy Emma Fowlkesb. Feb 2, 1857d. Jan 19, 1859
William Andrew Jackson Fowlkesb. Jan 1, 1859d. Jul 15, 1926
Charles Samuel Fowlkesb. Feb 4, 1868d. 1946
Amanda Genevia Fowlkesb. Apr 10, 1868d. May 16, 1945
Sarah Ann Fowlkesb. Apr 16, 1871d. Jan 7, 1941

Narrative

Dr Fowlkes and wife Amanda spent the first ten years of their married life in Surry Co, NC near Dobson. They lived the rest of their lives in the home they built in Alleghany County, NC. When Amanda died in 1905 Dr Fowlkes, then 83, refused to move in with any of his children so his oldest daughter Patience Cole and her family moved in with him to take care of him. When he died during an extreme cold spell in Feb 1913 the ground was frozen so hard it took two days to dig his grave. He was buried in a small family cemetery on his farm where Amanda and some of hischildren already slept. - From Some Branches of the Fowlkes Family - by David A Sturgill pg 28

Charles G. Fowlkes did not attend any medical school, rather he apprenticed under Dr Tyre in Dobson, Surry Co.,NC. Dr Tyre trained several other apprentices.

Dr Fowlkes wrote the original petition to form Alleghany County and was its first clerk of court until one could be elected. His brother AJ was elected first and they were alternately elected to the post.

In 1910 Dr Fowlkes signed a petition to require new doctors to pass an exam and pay a license fee. This soon became the law, but while existing Drs were exempt from the test, they still had to pay the $2.00 license fee. Dr Fowlkes refused and was eventually arrested for practicing without a license. He reminded the Judge that he had delivered him into the world. The exasperated judge had no choice but to find him guilty, but fined him $1 and paid the fine himself.