Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Granville L. Lowther    
                Born: Jun- 1-1834           1,2
                Died: Jun-24-1908           1,2
              Buried:                      in Oakwood Cemetery, Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV  1,3
             Resided:                      in Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV  1,4
             Resided: formerly             in Middlebourne, Tyler Co, WV  1
             Resided: originally           in Cairo, Ritchie Co, WV  1
          Occupation:                      saddler, harness-maker  5,1
              Census: 1850                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  
              Father: William W. Lowther   (1793 - 1872) 
              Mother: Melison W. Maxwell   (1798 - 1879) 
Other spouse 2
                Wife: Elizabeth Kelly   1  
             Married: May-10-1855          in Middlebourne, Tyler Co, WV  6
                Born: ca 1832              in Tyler Co, (W)VA  5
                Died: Jun-24-1870          in Tyler Co, WV  7
              Father: Thomas Kelly 
              Mother: Mary ___ 
           M Child 1: Lloyd A. Lowther      
                Born: Jan-14-1857           1
          Occupation:                      school superintendent at Emporia, Kansas  1
           M Child 2: Lorenzo D. Lowther      
                Born: 1860                 in Ritchie Co, (W)VA  1,2,8
                Died: Jul-16-1883          in Tyler Co, WV  8,1,2
      Cause of death:                      tuberculosis  8
              Buried:                      in Oakwood Cemetery, Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV  1
          Occupation:                      pilot  8
           F Child 3: Katherine Lowther      
       Also known as: Kate Lowther 3
                Born: 1865                  1
                Died: 1889                  1
              Buried:                      in Oakwood Cemetery, Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV  1

Sources:
(1) Minnie Kendall Lowther, Ritchie County in History and Romance (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 107. 
(2) Headstone (year only) 
(3) Headstone. 
(4) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, 
http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 499. 
(5) Tyler County Marriage Records, Middlebourne, WV. 
(6) Tyler County Marriage Records, Middlebourne, WV, Identified as Granville L. Lowther, age 20y 11m, single, occupation 
saddler, b. Wood Co, son of William & Melison Lowther; and Elizabeth Kelly (sic), age 23y 4m, single, b. Tyler Co, dau 
of Thomas & Mary Kelley (sic).  Married May 10 1855 in Middlebourne. 
(7) Tyler County Death Records, Middlebourne, WV, Identified as Elizabeth Lowther, age 35 (or 38? - second digit not clear), 
married, parents "not known," died Jun 24 1870 in Tyler County, cause of death consumption.  Informant:  G. L. Lowther, 
husband. DR p. 28. 
(8) Tyler County Death Records, Middlebourne, WV. 







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