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Sowell, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1848-1921

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Andrew Jackson Sowell was in some ways a third-generation Texan, although he was a member of the first generation of his family born in the state. His paternal grandfather John Newton Sowell (1780-1838) moved his family from Tennessee to Missouri and then to Texas, settling in Green DeWitt’s colony near Gonzales in 1830. During the Texas Revolution, he was one of the “Old Eighteen” in Gonzales and aided the Texan cause by making and repairing guns. Sowell’s uncle, also named Andrew ...