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Sarah Ann AYERS

Sarah Ann AYERS

Female 1824 - 1891  (67 years)


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  • Name Sarah Ann AYERS
    Birth 9 Aug 1824  Rockbridge Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female
    Census 1850  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1860  Barbour 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 6 Sep 1891  [3] 
    Burial Pullman Cemetery, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Person ID I43396  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2011

    Father Daniel AYERS
    Family ID F17528  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Robert LOWTHER,   b. 14 Feb 1809, West Milford, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1881, Mt. Zion, Calhoun Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [6, 7]
    Marriage 20 Apr 1843  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    • The wedding service was conducted by the Reverend A. C. Holden. "This was the first marriage solemnized in what is now Ritchie County, as it took place shortly after the organization of the county. The groom was the first clerk of the county court and doubtless wrote this license."
    Children 
    >1. Hannah E. LOWTHER,   b. 1844
    >2. Arvilla LOWTHER,   b. 24 Feb 1846, Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jun 1931, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     3. Sarah Ann LOWTHER,   b. CA 1848
    >4. Margaret "Maggie" LOWTHER,   b. 22 Mar 1850   d. 16 Dec 1927, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    >5. George William LOWTHER,   b. 20 May 1852   d. 6 Apr 1923, Grafton, Taylor Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
    >6. Dolphus S. LOWTHER,   b. 11 Jul 1856, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1926, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     7. Daniel A. LOWTHER,   b. 3 Mar 1862   d. 30 May 1937, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     8. John Alexander LOWTHER,   b. 23 Dec 1864   d. 14 Oct 1941, Belington, Barbour Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Family ID F17527  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1838] Headstone - Date calculated from age at death.

    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. [S5] Headstone.

    4. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 105.

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

    6. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 104.

    7. [S1604] Death record of son.

    8. [S283] Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 269.

    9. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).
      Identified as William R. Lowther and Sarah Ann Ayers. Married Apr 20 1843.