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Major Elias LOWTHER

Major Elias LOWTHER

Male 1776 - 1845  (69 years)


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  • Name Elias LOWTHER
    Title Major
    Birth 16 Sep 1776  West Milford, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male
    Occupation surveyor  [1, 3] 
    Residence From 1820  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence UNTIL 1820  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Death 15 Dec 1845  Staunton, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4] 
    • in a hospital for the insane
    Burial Western State Hospital Cemetery, Staunton, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Notes 
    • "Elias Lowther became a surveyor in early life, and when Wood County was formed, he was appointed by the surveyors of both Wood and Harrison to survey the line between the two counties. He was also a deputy surveyor for Wood County and a Justice of the Peace. It is evident that he lived in Wood County for a few years, as did his brother Jesse Lowther and their father, but they all returned to West Milford in Harrison County. Elias Lowther "was at one time a member of the Richmond Legislature from Harrison county, and was major in the militia. During the latter part of his life he lost his mind, and his last years were spent in the insane hospital at Staunton, Virginia, where he was laid to rest near the year 1845."

      In Harrison County Chancery case No. 83, File 9, Lewis Maxwell vs. Jonathan Howell, regarding a land dispute, Elias Lowther made the following statement on Oct 13 1840 while at the house of fellow surveyor Minter Bailey in Weston:
      "The platt beginning at the Willow Island on Middle Island Creek extending up the same containing twenty lots and marked on the back Lewis Maxwell vs Howell and much defaced by mould is the same made out by me for Nathan Davis & J. Howell and others perhaps about the year 1823...I am well assured the dates and figures are my own marks."
    Person ID I29165  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 26 Aug 2020

    Father Colonel William LOWTHER,   b. 22 Dec 1742, Albemarle Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 1814, West Milford, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    Mother Sudna HUGHES,   b. CA 1748   d. 1829, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)
    Family ID F11100  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rebecca COBURN,   b. 11 Dec 1779, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1850, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [1, 2, 3]
    Marriage 3 May 1804  Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    • Minnie Kendall Lowther, in "Ritchie County in History and Romance," p. 249, indicates that Elias Lowther and Rebecca Coburn were married in about 1797, which would conform to the birth dates of their older children. But "Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894," p. 17, shows their marriage date as May 3 1804 in chronological sequence with other marriages.
    Children 
     1. Sophia Margaret "Peggy" LOWTHER,   b. 18 May 1798   d. IN YOUTH, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Sarah Dark "Sally" LOWTHER,   b. 26 Sep 1800
    +3. William Dark LOWTHER,   b. 23 Nov 1802, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Mar 1850, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    +4. Elizabeth LOWTHER,   b. 1 Dec 1806, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Jesse Madison LOWTHER,   b. May 1809   d. 15 Nov 1855, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 46 years)
    +6. Dorinda LOWTHER,   b. 15 Jun 1814   d. 1896 (Age 81 years)
     7. Decatur LOWTHER,   b. 1 Mar 1817   d. Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Mary "Polly" LOWTHER,   b. 20 Sep 1818, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. Pritchard Cemetery, Slab Creek, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location
    +9. Jonathan Coburn LOWTHER,   b. 8 Mar 1819, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Oct 1916 (Age 97 years)
    Family ID F11106  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 17.

    2. [S1823] Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Robert Lowther, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/lowther.htm).

    3. [S283] Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 249.

    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), p. 401.

    5. [S1792] Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985)).