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Thanks and Credit goes to Ken Hinds and Donald Roe for the info. below

 This is not my work and I do not wish to take credit for it. Just info I gathered.

Thanks are due to Donald Roe for his generous assistance in tracking down David's parentage in North Carolina, and to Carrie Rowe for helping finally break the barrier to Robert and Elizabeth Rowe. Donald Roe's extensive research on the Roe/Rowe family of North Carolina and Tennessee can be found at his homepage

David Rowe was born in Beaufort County, North Carolina in 1792, the son of, Robert Roe and Elizabeth Hartley. At some point prior to 1809 David left home and moved to Warren County, Georgia, where his uncle Joshua and aunt Sarah (Rigby) Rowe had been living since 1791. About 1809 he married Charlotte Rigby, daughter of Warren Co. neighbors William and Mary Rigby (and brother of Joshua's wife Sarah). On August 26, 1813 David was drafted into Captain Adam Heeth's Company of Drafted Infantry in the 1st Regiment of Georgia Militia (Harris's Regt.) for a 6 month tour of duty. During his service, David marched into Georgia's western frontier under General Floyd's army, assisting in the construction of Forts Lawrence, Perry, and Mitchell in Creek territory (present day western Georgia and eastern Alabama). David survived the January 27 battle of Calabee in Alabama (in which 17 soldiers were killed and 152 wounded, including his company captain) before mustering out at Fort Mitchell on February 10, 1814. See military service record for David Rowe, and see also a list of Georgia troops killed and wounded in the battle of Calabee.

A decade after the war, both David Rowe and his father-in-law William Rigby moved west to newly-created Monroe County before 1825, when William sold his son-in-law 52 acres of land. In 1829, David purchased land in newly-formed Troup County on the new western frontier, and by 1830 both he and his father-in-law were living there. David and Charlotte raised their family in the portion of original Troup County that became Meriwether County near Warm Springs. Charlotte died before David drafted his will in 1867, and David died before March, 1870. Their graves have not yet been located. See transcript of David Rowe's will.

Children of David Rowe and Charlotte Rigby

1. _____ Rowe (M), born c1810.
2. Elizabeth Rowe, born 1814; married Charles Darrington October 3, 1838 in Troup Co.; died June 14, 1894 in Heard Co.
3. Rebecca Rowe, born 1818; married William Gray.
4. Noah H. Rowe, born 1820; married Rebecca Jackson November 20, 1841 in Troup Co.; died before 1880 in Meriwether Co.
5. John R. Rowe, born 1823; married Mary Jane Phillips on August 20, 1846 in Meriwether Co.; died before 1900 in Taylor Co.
6. Stephen Rowe, born 1824; married Louisa H. Gunn on July 26, 1843 in Meriwether Co.
7. ______ Rowe (F), born c1826.
8. ______ Rowe (M), born c1829.
9. Mark Rowe, born April 4, 1831; married 1st Lucy H. Caldwell December 17, 1851 in Meriwether Co., 2nd Louisa W. Caldwell on November 5, 1856 in Meriwether Co.
10. Kinion Rowe, born 1833; married Francis Emeline Patterson July 25, 1850 in Meriwether Co.
11. Mary Rowe, born 1834.