Jul-28-2018                   
                      Elias Lowther    
                Born: ca 1801              in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1 (see note 1)
                Died:                      in Wirt Co, WV  2
              Buried:                      in Wirt Co, WV  1
             Resided: from 1825            in Wirt Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: formerly             in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1
             Resided: originally           in Harrison Co, (W)VA  1
          Occupation:                      blacksmith, gunsmith and powder-maker  1
              Father: Thomas Lowther   (1767 - 1816) 
              Mother: Mary Coburn   (1767 -     ) 
Notes 2,3 
           M Child 1: Andrew Lowther 1     
           M Child 2: Daniel Lowther 1     

Sources:
(1) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 60. 
(2) 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. 427. 
(3) Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Robert Lowther, 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/lowther.htm. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Per War of 1812 pension records for Alexander Lowther.  According to his own
testimony, Elias Lowther was not in the War of 1812.







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