Aug-21-2010
Husband: Robert Lowther
Born: Oct- 1-1765 in Hardy Co, (W)VA 1,2,3 (see note 1)
Died: Nov-16-1832 near West Milford, Harrison Co, WV 4,5,1 (see note 2)
Buried: in Old Lowther Cemetery, West Milford-Muttontown Rd, Harrison Co, WV 6,2
Military: Sgt, 6th Reg. VA Inf, War of 1812 6
Father: William Lowther
Mother: Sudna Hughes
Wife: Catherine Cain 1 2
Also known as: Kathrine Cain 2,7
Married: Jan-21-1787 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 8,1,9
Born: Oct-27-1766 in Albemarle Co, VA 2,1 (see note 3)
Died: Mar-25-1851 near West Milford, Harrison Co, WV 2,3 (see note 4)
Father: Daniel Cain
Mother: Susannah Custer
M Child 1: William Beamer Lowther 1
Born: Mar- 4-1787 at West Milford, Harrison Co, (W)VA 10
Died: Oct-19-1867 in 11,10
M Child 2: Jesse G. Lowther
Born: Feb-27-1790 in 1,12,2,5
Died: Aug-25-1870 at West Milford, Harrison Co, WV 2
F Child 3: Mary Ann "Polly" Lowther
Born: ca 1792 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 13,1
Died: in
F Child 4: Susannah Lowther 8
Also known as: Susan Lowther 14,5
Born: ca 1795 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 1
Died:
F Child 5: Catherine Lowther
Also known as: Katherine Lowther 1
Born: Jan-25-1798 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 15
Died: Mar-26-1873 in 16
F Child 6: Sarah Lowther
Born: ca 1800 in 17
Died:
M Child 7: Robert J. Lowther 18
Also known as: Robert Lowther, Jr. 19
Born: ca 1801 in Ohio 1,18,12
Died: aft Dec 1873 in 20
M Child 8: John C. Lowther
Born: Aug-21-1804 in Harrison Co, (W)VA 1,18,21
Died: Feb- 4-1858 in Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV 18,2,21
M Child 9: James K. Lowther
Census name: James R. Lowther 22
Born: 1806 in 23
Died: 1902 in 5,1,24
M Child 10: Jonathan Lowther 1
Born: in
Died:
Sources:
(1) Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Robert
Lowther, http://www.rootsweb.com/~hcpd/norman/LOWTHER.htm.
(2) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999,
McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 10.
(3) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://home.comcast.net/~jmlinder609, The Gibson and
Related Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 425.
(4) Jane Lowther Bolster, The Families of Jesse Lowther and His Son Granville,
with Their Descendants and Antecedents in America, Daamen, Inc. (1982), p. 23.
(5) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://home.comcast.net/~jmlinder609, The Gibson and
Related Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 426.
(6) Cemeteries of Union District, Harrison County, WV, Harrison County
Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV (1990)
(7) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://home.comcast.net/~jmlinder609, The Gibson and
Related Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991.
(8) Harrison County WV Marriages 1785-1894, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave,
Parkersburg, WV 26101 (1985)
(9) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://home.comcast.net/~jmlinder609, The Gibson and
Related Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 400.
(10) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain
Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 269.
(11) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County,
West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995.
(12) 1850 Census, Harrison County, (W)VA.
(13) 1850 Census, Doddridge County, (W)VA.
(14) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999,
McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 11.
(15) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death.
(16) Headstone.
(17) 1850 Census, Lewis County, (W)VA.
(18) Penny & O.D. Linder, http://home.comcast.net/~jmlinder609, The Gibson and
Related Families, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 1991, p. 437.
(19) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999,
McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com)
(20) Death record of wife.
(21) Cemeteries of Clark District, Harrison County, WV, Harrison County
Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV.
(22) 1860 Census, Harrison County, (W)VA.
(23) Headstone (year only), Don Norman in "The Descendants of Robert Lowther" and
Linder's "Gibson and Related Families," p. 426, report birth date as 1807. But
"Cemeteries of Union District, Harrison County," p. 2, reports birth date on
headstone as 1806.
(24) Headstone (year only)
Event Notes
Note (1) on the South Branch of the Potomac
Note (2) Linder, p. 426, reports death date as Nov 16 1831. Don Norman has it as Nov
16 1832, but in Ritchie County, which is incorrect. "Cemeteries of Union
District, Harrison County," p. 2, reports it as Nov 17 1831, with birth date Oct
1 1767. He died from a fall while re-roofing his late father's cabin near West
Milford in Harrison County.
Note (3) Linder, p. 425, reports birthdate as Nov 16 1766. Bolster, p. 23, reports
birthplace as Harrison Co VA.
Note (4) Don Norman reports death date as Oct 25 1851.
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