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Archibald LOWTHER

Archibald LOWTHER

Male 1811 - 1874  (63 years)


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  • Name Archibald LOWTHER
    Birth 17 May 1811  West Milford, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • the youngest of 12 children
    Gender Male
    Residence UNTIL 1836  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence Aft 1836  Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Census 1850, 1860  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1870  Union District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 29 Oct 1874  Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Burial Lowther (Walnut Grove) Cemetery, Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I28359  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2016

    Father William LOWTHER,   b. 27 Jan 1769, Moorefield, Hardy Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Nov 1857, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    Mother Margaret MORRISON,   b. 1 May 1768, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 May 1850 (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F11104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charlotta WILLARD,   b. 29 Jan 1813, Greene Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1895, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [3]
    Marriage 26 Dec 1834  Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Don Norman reports marriage as Sep 23 1834 in Ritchie Co.
    Notes 
    • 1850 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia) (Western District), enumerated on Sep 5 1850:
      Archo Lowther, 39, farmer, value of real estate $1500; Charlotte, 27 (sic); Eliz. J., 14; Wm. G., 11; Margaret, 10; Alex, 8; Wm., 81, farmer; Rebecca, 48. All born in Virginia except for Charlotte, born in Pennsylvania.

      1860 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 20 1860:
      Archibald Lowther, 49, farmer, value of real estate $3000, value of personal estate $982; Charlotte, 49; Wm. G., 21; Margaret, 20; Alexr, 18; John M, 8; Sarah A, 6; Rebecca, 57.

      1870 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Union Twp, Harrisville Post Office), enumerated on Jun 30 1870:
      Archibald Lowther, 59, farmer, value of real estate $3000, value of personal estate $675; Charlotte, 58, cannot write; John M, 17, attended school within the year; Sarah A, 16, attended school within the year; Rebecca, 67, cannot write. Birthplaces of all given as "Virginia now W.Va.," except for Charlotte, born in Pennsylvania.
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Jane LOWTHER,   b. 16 Aug 1836   d. 19 Jan 1853 (Age 16 years)
    +2. William George LOWTHER,   b. 11 Feb 1839, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1921, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    +3. Margaret Clarissa LOWTHER,   b. 1840, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1905 (Age 65 years)
    +4. Alexander S. LOWTHER,   b. 1 Jun 1842, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jun 1917 (Age 75 years)
     5. Robert LOWTHER,   b. 3 Apr 1844   d. 7 Feb 1850 (Age 5 years)
    +6. John Marshall LOWTHER,   b. 5 Jun 1851, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Apr 1930, Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +7. Sarah Ann LOWTHER,   b. 23 Feb 1854   d. 9 Sep 1917, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    Family ID F10742  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 227.

    2. [S123] Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    3. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.

    4. [S340] Penny & O.D. Linder, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GIBSON/2003-10/1067200853, The Gibson and Related Families, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991).
      citing Monongalia County Marriage Book 2, p. 585. Bond date Dec 19 1834, marriage date Dec 23 1834. Minnie Kendall Lowther, in "History of Ritchie County," p. 227, gives marriage date as Sep 23 1834.