SEVENTH GENERATION


68. Edmond D. Lowery (1)(2) (3) was born in 1807 in Elbert, GA. He died before 1856 in Campbell, GA. From Larry Lowery:
Information from the 1850 Campbell Co, Ga census. Elizabeth, Mother of Edmond and William, was living with Edmond's family at this time. From the book: Douglas County: From Indian Trail To Interstate 20. Includes minutes from 1849-1888 of MT. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church. Eliza dismissed by letter no date given. E.D. Lowery excluded no date given. Hanah Lowery excluded no date given. F. L. Lowery dismissed by Letter, June1857. 3/13//1852-E. D. Lowery new church clerk .6/12/1852 Elizabeth Lowery received by letter.4/13/1856-Brother E. Lowery charged with leaving the church(3/8/1856) E. D. Lowery withdrew. I could not locate this Edmond on he 1830 GA Census, but he is in Gwinnett Co on the 1840 Census,


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All I have is a note that LaVoyce has that lists Edmond Lowry as the father of George Wilkie Lowry. She also has a letter mentioning EM and EJ Lowry. History of Gwinnett county mentions an Edmond Lowry as a witness to some Cherokee land lotteries?? Also, an idexer of 1840 census shows an Edmond Lowry in Gwinett county GA, yet the actual census data was not readable. Then there is an Edmond Jr enlisted in the Civil War per index. "Missy" sent 1850 census data with names of children in his household
including GW, age 18. The 1790-92 records lists an Edmond as grantee in deed records, so
could this have been his father who would have been married to Elizabeth? Just a guess. (Glenn later cleared much of this up) Edmond and Edmund and Lowry and Lowery are used to describe this man (and his father) From Larry Lowery:
Information from the 1850 Campbell Co, Ga census. Elizabeth, Mother of Edmond and William, was living with Edmond's family at this time. From the book: Douglas County: From Indian Trail To Interstate 20. Includes minutes from 1849-1888 of MT. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church. Eliza dismissed by letter no date given. E.D. Lowery excluded no date given. Hanah Lowery excluded no date given. F. L. Lowery dismissed by Letter, June1857. 3/13//1852-E. D. Lowery new church clerk .6/12/1852 Elizabeth Lowery received by letter.4/13/1856-Brother E. Lowery charged with leaving the church(3/8/1856) E. D. Lowery withdrew. I could not locate this Edmond on he 1830 GA Census, but he is in Gwinnett Co on the 1840 Census,


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All I have is a note that LaVoyce has that lists Edmond Lowry as the father of George Wilkie Lowry. She also has a letter mentioning EM and EJ Lowry. History of Gwinnett county mentions an Edmond Lowry as a witness to some Cherokee land lotteries?? Also, an idexer of 1840 census shows an Edmond Lowry in Gwinett county GA, yet the actual census data was not readable. Then there is an Edmond Jr enlisted in the Civil War per index. "Missy" sent 1850 census data with names of children in his household
including GW, age 18. The 1790-92 records lists an Edmond as grantee in deed records, so
could this have been his father who would have been married to Elizabeth? Just a guess. (Glenn later cleared much of this up) Edmond and Edmund and Lowry and Lowery are used to describe this man (and his father) He was married to Hannah S. Bennett between 1825 and 1828 in GA.

69. Hannah S. Bennett(1) (2)(3) was born in 1808 in Georgia. She died after 1856. [jimlowry020400.GED]

This person may have a sister, ? Bennett, who married another Lowry.
still searching. Children were:

child i. James M. Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1826 in Campbell (Fulton) County, Georgia. He died on 28 Nov 1862. He was buried in Bright Star Methodist Church. From Larry Lowery:
Enlisted as a Pvt. in Co A of the 56th GA Inf. on 4/25/1862 and died of chronic diarrhea at Cumberland Gap, TN just seven months later. Campbell Co. According to a letter from Lucinda's husband, James first wife died trying to give birth to twins. The twins also died. This would mean that Avarilla(First Wife) died. Later we find reference to an Avarilla still being alive and the mother of James children. This has not been untangled yet.

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I don't know if this is E. J lowry or Jno Lowry or ?? in 1850 census. This name came up when a letter to GW from EW Maxwell mentioned "your brother James" . Letter says his first? wife died in childbirth of twins then he married the "Coggins" girl. Marriage records of gwinett county shows the name of his first and second wife.
child ii. Lucinda Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1829 in Campbell County GA.
child iii. George Wilkie Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born on 12 Sep 1831 in Gwinnett Co., GA. He was born on 12 Sep 1831 in Gwinnett County, GA. He died on 28 Dec 1911 in Erath Co., TX. He died on 28 Dec 1911 in Erath County, TX. He was buried in Barbee Cemetery, Commanche Co., TX. I[jimlowry020400.GED]

He was in Bosque ct tx for 1880 census and izard ct ar for 1860 census. In July 19, 1862, he volunteered for the confederacy but had a dislocated shoulder joint of 8 years standing and was given a military exemption from assistant Surgeon Ju N Bragg medical journal. The entry was in the family
bible and then marked through-(why?)

Information on George W. Lowry and descendent from James Michael Lowry.
child iv. William Bennett Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1833 in Campbell Co, Georgia. He died on 18 Aug 1862 in Crystal Hill, Faulkner County, Arkansas.
Information supplied by Mark Miller CivilWar49@@aol.com
Enlisted in the 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. William B. Lowery Co. G Pvt/Pvt
Enlisted 22 May 1862 at Lewisville, Lafayette County, Arkansas. Died 18 Aug 1862 at Crystal
Hill, Faulkner County, Arkansas. Born in Tennessee.
Information supplied by Mark Miller CivilWar49@@aol.com
Enlisted in the 26th Arkansas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. William B. Lowery Co. G Pvt/Pvt
Enlisted 22 May 1862 at Lewisville, Lafayette County, Arkansas. Died 18 Aug 1862 at Crystal
Hill, Faulkner County, Arkansas. Born in Tennessee.
child34 v. Elijah Mason Lowery.
child vi. Mary Jane Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1836 in Georgia.
child vii. Edmund Jobe Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1838 in Campbell County GA.
child viii. John N. Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1840.
child ix. Adeline Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born in 1842 in Campbell County GA.
child x. Francis Marion Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born on 22 May 1845 in Alabama. He died on 21 Jan 1919 in Walker Co., Huntsville, TX. [jimlowry020400.GED]

NOTES are from a combination of memories and census records of Jack
Francis Rhodes' and his conversations with his grandmother, Minnie
Lowry:
About 1861 Francis Marion Lowry served in 5th Infantry Regiment
of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. This unit was part of
Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was mustard out by
Jefferson Davis because the Army found out he was only 16 years old.
Later when the draft reopened about 1863 he enlisted again and faught
at Gettysburg. Francis and Emily married in 1864 and decided to move
from Alabama to Wood Co, in north Texas before July, 1866. Emily's
mother died before the end of the war and her father was aging and in
poor health so he moved with them. Francis got a job as a carpenter
with the railroad. 1880 Census records of Wood Co., TX showed he was
working in central Texas as a carpenter on the railroad as a tie
cutter. The census also indicate that two single males, James
Little age 40, and a James O'Brien age 38 were boarder and working
for the railroad as tie cutters. Both borders listed their place of
births as Ireland. Sometime after the work on the railroad was
completed the Lowry's moved to Milam Co., TX and lived and farmed a
place near Gause, TX, in the western part of the county. In about
1905 they then moved from Milam Co. to Madison Co. and farmed for
about four years. About 1909 they moved to Walker Co., Huntsville,
TX. Francis had some money left over after the sale of their farms
but made his living doing carpenter work. He did small repair jobs
but he also built houses and helped survey and build some of
Huntsville's streets. The Lowry home was on a large lot located at
the corner of 20th Street and Avenue L.
Per Minnie Mae (Lowry) Gum, Francis and Emily did not legally
adopt but reared another child named Jim Woodham or Woodam.1850 census
mentions a Francis 5 and an Elizabeth, 81 after naming a bunch
of "kids". Francis is probably not a Edmand child but I list him here
as
a convenience until I discover where he goes.
rcvd 1st contact on 9-1-99 in this email.
More later
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Jim, I am descended thru Edmond, Edmond, Francis Marion, Francis Leon,
MInnie. I would love to see what information you have on the lowry family.
Thanks
Jimmy
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Jimmy, Thanks so much for the information. I'll have my wife Sissie
download this information and include it in the Family Tree Maker program she
is working on. I don't know how she is going to send our information to
you(obviously she knows more about this than I do).

Francis Marion Lowry married Emily Francis Davis(a relative of Jefferson
Davis) during the Civil War and moved to Texas shortly after the war.
His son Francis Leon Lowry was my grandfather. We lived in Texas until 1949
when my dad was transferred to Louisiana. My mother was a dgt. of Francis
Leon. She is almost 87 years old and in good health.

I'm happy I found you, I was reading the different forums when I read
your post one night. Keep in touch. We will send you the information one
way or the other. Thanks so much.
child xi. Absalom Jasper Lowery(1) (2)(3) was born on 8 Oct 1849 in Campbell Co., Georgia. He died after 1885 in Georgia. From Larry Lowery:
According to a letter written by Absolem Jasper in 1882 he had 4 girls and two boys living and two boys dead and was living in Gwinnett Co,GA.

From James Michael Lowry:
Letter from Absalom Lowery:

STATE of GEORGIA
GWINNETT COUNTY
Dear Brother:
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to drop you a few lines which leaves? us all ok? but not very well and I truly hope that those living will come to hand? in due time, and find you all well and doing well. I haven't any news of interest to write you. Time has ?? with me and plenty of hard work to do just as I have always done. We have had a very warm and wet winter. Our wheat looks very fine for the time of the year, too fine I am afeared, for it has some soot already and I fear it will soot??. Oats look very well. We have some corn up and some sotton seed planted there is a earlier grain crop ??? cotton crop than usually planted this year, if so ??? ?? is very big/hy espesely on time. and the credit system is the main?? go with the most of the farmers in the count?y. They can not do otherwise.
I have a very large crop. 6 acres in wheat, 16 in oats, 14 in corn 21 in cotton am using" 2899 lbs Ginno?? at a cost of 430 lbs of lint cotton for? ton 20.00? I have got in debt from sickness in my family bad ?? and time ???? and ??? ??? sents. and it looks like that it takes me a long time to get out. a large family to support and but little help to work though my help is gitting some better every year now. We had a new girl at our house 20 of last Jan and she is a fine girl to. that makes us three girls and two boys living and tow boys dead. I wish I was out of debt and in a new country with them but do not see how I am to get there.
Brother, I oftimes think of the Lowry family and thin how they are scatterd. One doesn't hardly know where the other is at and it looks like that I have had the hardest time of any being the youngest I have been ilt? looks like forsaken by all. Brother I wish I could see you. I want to talk with you but I don't suppose that I will ever enjoy that pleasur. I got a letter from br Eg Sam little time back. he is still at the same place and pleads hard times ahd he has seen a very hard time within the last ten years. I got a letter from G.W. just after christmas. he stated that he had been sick and never would be well anymore. I havent heard from EM in two or three years. JM? is living in two miles of me but I do not often see him. I have many lonely hours to myself studding over the past but it does no good, yet I cannot help it. I read? and study a heap anyway Brother I want you to write and let me here from you as often as you can ok? I will close. give sister and all my nephews and nieces my best respects tell them I want to see them. receive a portion your self and do the best you can good bye.
I remain yore brother until death.
April the 16th 1882
Centreville
Gwinnett County Georgia

When this you see then remember me
I moist? to diner AGL A 16th 82

Note: 02/10/00 This letter is from AG Lowry? to a brother.??________. It does mention a sickly GW Lowry who could be our G. Wilkie Lowry and is likely since GW had a bad shoulder that got him out of the civil war.
Centerville is a couple miles east of Stone Mountain GA, in Gwinnett county but is close to county border. JM? who lives two miles away may live in another county (Dekalb?)Another letter from EWMaxwell to George Lowry mentions a James (Jim) Lowry whose wife and twins died in childbirth and Jim toook another wife named Coggin prior to 1857. George lists his birthplace as Campbell county in family bible. Campbell is now Fulton county) The grave at Barbee is of a "cousin" named AE Lowry (9/3/1854-6/30/1879 24 yrs old, but his wife Martha E 8/15/1852-3/26/1877 died at 24 also)
From Larry Lowery:
According to a letter written by Absolem Jasper in 1882 he had 4 girls and two boys living and two boys dead and was living in Gwinnett Co, GA.

From James Michael Lowry:
Letter from Absalom Lowery:

STATE of GEORGIA
GWINNETT COUNTY
Dear Brother:
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I seat myself to drop you a few lines which leaves? us all ok? but not very well and I truly hope that those living will come to hand? in due time, and find you all well and doing well. I haven't any news of interest to write you. Time has ?? with me and plenty of hard work to do just as I have always done. We have had a very warm and wet winter. Our wheat looks very fine for the time of the year, too fine I am afeared, for it has some soot already and I fear it will soot??. Oats look very well. We have some corn up and some sotton seed planted there is a earlier grain crop ??? cotton crop than usually planted this year, if so ??? ?? is very big/hy espesely on time. and the credit system is the main?? go with the most of the farmers in the count?y. They can not do otherwise.
I have a very large crop. 6 acres in wheat, 16 in oats, 14 in corn 21 in cotton am using" 2899 lbs Ginno?? at a cost of 430 lbs of lint cotton for? ton 20.00? I have got in debt from sickness in my family bad ?? and time ???? and ??? ??? sents. and it looks like that it takes me a long time to get out. a large family to support and but little help to work though my help is gitting some better every year now. We had a new girl at our house 20 of last Jan and she is a fine girl to. that makes us three girls and two boys living and tow boys dead. I wish I was out of debt and in a new country with them but do not see how I am to get there.
Brother, I oftimes think of the Lowry family and thin how they are scatterd. One doesn't hardly know where the other is at and it looks like that I have had the hardest time of any being the youngest I have been ilt? looks like forsaken by all. Brother I wish I could see you. I want to talk with you but I don't suppose that I will ever enjoy that pleasur. I got a letter from br Eg Sam little time back. he is still at the same place and pleads hard times ahd he has seen a very hard time within the last ten years. I got a letter from G.W. just after christmas. he stated that he had been sick and never would be well anymore. I havent heard from EM in two or three years. JM? is living in two miles of me but I do not often see him. I have many lonely hours to myself studding over the past but it does no good, yet I cannot help it. I read? and study a heap anyway Brother I want you to write and let me here from you as often as you can ok? I will close. give sister and all my nephews and nieces my best respects tell them I want to see them. receive a portion your self and do the best you can good bye.
I remain yore brother until death.
April the 16th 1882
Centreville
Gwinnett County Georgia

When this you see then remember me
I moist? to diner AGL A 16th 82

Note: 02/10/00 This letter is from AG Lowry? to a brother.??________. It does mention a sickly GW Lowry who could be our G. Wilkie Lowry and is likely since GW had a bad shoulder that got him out of the civil war.
Centerville is a couple miles east of Stone Mountain GA, in Gwinnett county but is close to county border. JM? who lives two miles away may live in another county (Dekalb?)Another letter from EWMaxwell to George Lowry mentions a James (Jim) Lowry whose wife and twins died in childbirth and Jim toook another wife named Coggin prior to 1857. George lists his birthplace as Campbell county in family bible. Campbell is now Fulton county) The grave at Barbee is of a "cousin" named AE Lowry (9/3/1854-6/30/1879 24 yrs old, but his wife Martha E 8/15/1852-3/26/1877 died at 24 also)

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