Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John G. J. Lowther    
       Also known as: G. J. Lowther 1
                Born: ca 1822               2
                Died: Oct-14-1851           3
              Buried:                      in Pioneer Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  4
             Resided:                      at Cornwallis, Ritchie Co, WV  5
              Father: Jesse Coburn Lowther   (1790 - 1842) 
              Mother: Phebe Cunningham   (1794 - 1871) 
                Wife: Elizabeth ___   6,7  
              Father:
              Mother:
           F Child 1: Elzara E. Lowther      
       Also known as: Alzana E. Lowther 8
                Born: ca 1850               9
              Census: 1880                 in Union District, Ritchie Co, WV  
             Husband: Granville B. Jones  b. ca 1846  
             Married: Jun-24-1869          in Ritchie Co, WV  10

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(2) Headstone - Date calculated from age at death. 
(3) Headstone. 
(4) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995, There appear to be two markers for the same person.  (1) G. J. Lowther, d. Oct 
14 1851, 29 yrs, son of Jessee C. & P. Louther.  (2) John C. Lowther, d. Oct 14 1851, 29 yrs, son of Jesse & P. L. 
Lowther. p. 579. 
(5) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 155. 
(6) 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. 440. 
(7) Marriage record of daughter. 
(8) Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Robert Lowther, 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/lowther.htm. 
(9) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) 
(10) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as G. 
B. Jones, 23, of Ritchie Co, son of James R. & Nancy; and Elzara E. Lowther, 19, of Ritchie Co, dau of John G. & 
Elizabeth.  Married Jun 24 1869. 







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