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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Civil Service
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
ABSTRACTS OF MINUTES OF COURT OF PLEAS-ROWAN CO NC VOL III pg 76 1775-1789
Author: Frank Grady Hall, III
The Lowry name is English in origin according to information received in an interview with Fred Lowery, Jr. of Statesvile, North Carolina. Other spellings of the name are Lowery, Lowrie, and Loury. The Lowrys moved from England to Scotland to rent land. They had first a fifty year and then a one hundred year lease on land in Scotland from the English land owners. Because of the increases in rent and interest in religious freedom, the family moved to America; first settling in Pennsylvania, then moving to Virginian, and then to North and south Carolina.
There was a Samuel Lowery who served as a soldier in the American Revolution from Virginia; however, I have not established that this Samuel is related to Frank Grady Hall, III. There was an Isabella Lowry who sold oats to the Continental Army in North Carolina and this may have been Samuel’s wife, but there is no evidence connecting them.
Samuel who was born about 1730 and died before 5 May 1789 in Rowan County, NC, did serve as a constable in Rowan County during the Revolutionary war period and sold land to his son William.
William Lowery was born about 1765 in Rowan County, NC and died 16 Jul 1812. He did sell supplies to the American Patriots. He is buried in the Third Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Cleveland, Rowan County, NC. His grave has been marked by the SAR.
William married Elizabeth Gillespie on 31 Dec 1789 in Rowan County, NC. She was born in 1767 in Rowan County, NC and also sold supplies to the America Patriots. She died 18 July 1835. She is buried in the Third Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Cleveland, Rowan County, NC. Her grave has been marked by the SAR.
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