Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: John E. Lowther    
                Born: Apr- 2-1897          in Gilmer Co, WV  1,2
                Died: Nov-  -1982           2
              Buried:                      in IOOF Cemetery, Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  3
             Resided:                      in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  4,5,6,2
              Census: 1920                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
             Resided: 1917                 in Auburn, Ritchie Co, WV  7
              Census: 1910                 in Troy District, Gilmer Co, WV  
              Father: James Samson Lowther   (1851 - 1933) 
              Mother: Margaret F. Holliday   (1854 - 1912) 
Notes 8 
                Wife: Cozbi Jenette Burns 1,2 6   
             Married: Jun- 9-1921          in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  9,5
                Born: Jan- 1-1903          in Braxton Co, WV  1,2
                Died: Mar- 3-1996           2
             Resided:                      in Oviedo, Seminole Co, FL  2 (see note 1)
             Resided: 1954                 in Harrisville, Ritchie Co, WV  10
             Resided: 1921                 in Ritchie Co, WV  1
              Father: John Emory Burns   (1877 - 1954) 
              Mother: Rosa Florence Lowther   (1880 - 1974) 
           M Child 1: Edward Keith Lowther      
                Born: Dec-25-1922           4
                Died: Oct-26-1944          in World War II  4
              Buried:                      in Italy  8
           Education:                      West Virginia University  4,8
            Military:                      1st Lt., U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II  4,8
                Wife: Mary Loftice  
             Married: May-23-1944           8
           F Child 2: Julia Lorraine Lowther      
                Born: ca 1925               1
           Education:                      Harrisville H.S.  8
             Husband: Camden Fisher, Jr.  b. Sep-23-1922  d. Aug- 4-2002  
             Married: May-29-1943          in Ritchie Co, WV  1

Sources:
(1) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1916-1945, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Sep 1998) 
(2) Social Security Death Index. 
(3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, 
McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. 
(4) Young American Patriots: The Youth of West Virginia in World War II (National Publishing Co, Richmond, VA, 1946), p. 
1086. 
(5) Lorna Reese Overberg, The History of Ritchie County, West Virginia to 1980 (Ritchie County Historical Society, Taylor 
Publishing Co, 1980), p. 179. 
(6) Obituary of sister. 
(7) Obituary of aunt. 
(8) Lorna Reese Overberg, The History of Ritchie County, West Virginia to 1980 (Ritchie County Historical Society, Taylor 
Publishing Co, 1980), p. 180. 
(9) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1916-1945, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Sep 1998), Identified as John 
E. Lowther, 24, b. Gilmer Co, res. Ritchie Co; and Cozbi Jenette Burns, 18, b. Braxton Co, res. Ritchie Co.  Married Jun 
9 1921. 
(10) Obituary of father. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Social Security card issued in West Virginia in 1962.







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