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John Alexander LOWTHER

John Alexander LOWTHER

Male 1820 - 1862  (41 years)


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  • Name John Alexander LOWTHER
    Birth 24 Sep 1820  West Milford, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1860  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Occupation farmer  [4] 
    Death 3 Apr 1862  [5] 
    Burial White Oak ME Church Cemetery, near Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Burial location reported by Minnie Kendall Lowther, "History of Ritchie County," p. 583, as Oxford, implying Doddridge County. But his headstone is at the White Oak ME Church Cemetery near Pullman, Ritchie County.
    Person ID I33574  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 26 Jul 2016

    Father Alexander J. LOWTHER,   b. 14 Jan 1791, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1864, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Mother Sarah IRELAND,   b. 13 Aug 1796   d. 23 May 1841 (Age 44 years)
    Family ID F12065  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Ann SINNETT,   b. 14 Aug 1831   d. 26 Jul 1913, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [7]
    Marriage 17 Feb 1848  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Children 
    +1. Mary Ellen LOWTHER,   b. CA 1850
    +2. Franklin P. LOWTHER,   b. 14 Feb 1853, White Oak (near Pullman), Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1901, New Martinsville, Wetzel Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    >3. Harvey LOWTHER,   b. 13 Mar 1855, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1931, Marietta, Washington Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    +4. Wilson B. LOWTHER,   b. 22 Aug 1857, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1897, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
     5. Clairy V. LOWTHER,   b. 1860
    +6. Sarah Margurite "Maggie" LOWTHER,   b. 1862   d. 5 Dec 1928, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F13157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S145] Jane Lowther Bolster, The Families of Jesse Lowther and His Son Granville, with Their Descendants and Antecedents in America, (Daamen, Inc. (1982)), p. 28.

    2. [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. 441.

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

    4. [S2068] 1860 Census, Ritchie County, (W)VA.

    5. [S1967] Record of wife's remarriage.
      Don Norman's "Descendants of Robert Lowther" reports the death date of John Alexander Lowther as Oct 12 1909. But wife Elizabeth Ann Sinnett's second marriage, to Jacob Allender in March 1863, indicated her marital status as widowed. John A. Lowther's brother Jesse is believed to have died on Oct 12 1909.

    6. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 583.

    7. [S1590] Death record of daughter.

    8. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).