Individual Details

Listed at home on 1880 census are "Thomas J. LOWRY, age 61, merchant; w i f e, Mary [nee' MIDKIFF], age 56, keeping house; daughter, Rebecca E., a g e 2 2; son S. Franklin, age 13, printer." There is an oral history in m y f a mily that our LOWRY family antecedants moved to Mount Airy from Mor ri s town,TN and that the brothers were all journeymen printers who event u a lly worked for the Mount Airy newspaper[s]. This individual was found o n G e nCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/kgoins26/1/data/5517 N o t e: Listed at home on 1880 census are "Thomas J. LOWRY, age 61, mercha n t ; wife, Mary [nee' MIDKIFF], age 56, keeping house; daughter, Rebecca E . , a ge 22; son S. Franklin, age 13, printer." There is an oral hist o r y in my family that our LOWRY family antecedents moved to Mount Airy f r o m Morristown,TN and that the brothers were all journeymen printers wh o e v entually worked for the Mount Airy newspaper[s]. -- MERGED NOTE ------------ Listed at home on 1880 census are "Thomas J. LOWRY, age 61, merchant; w i f e, Mary [nee' MIDKIFF], age 56, keeping house; daughter, Rebecca E., a g e 2 2; son S. Franklin, age 13, printer." There is an oral history in m y f a mily that our LOWRY family antecedants moved to Mount Airy from Mor ri s town,TN and that the brothers were all journeymen printers who event u a lly worked for the Mount Airy newspaper[s]. This individual was found o n G e nCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/users/kgoins26/1/data/5517 N o t e: Listed at home on 1880 census are "Thomas J. LOWRY, age 61, mercha n t ; wife, Mary [nee' MIDKIFF], age 56, keeping house; daughter, Rebecca E . , a ge 22; son S. Franklin, age 13, printer." There is an oral hist o r y in my family that our LOWRY family antecedents moved to Mount Airy f r o m Morristown,TN and that the brothers were all journeymen printers wh o e v entually worked for the Mount Airy newspaper[s].

Birth	18 Dec 1818	Stokes, North Carolina, United States
Marriage	Abt 1842	Surry, North Carolina, United States - Mary Midkiff
Death	8 Feb 1881	Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States

Spouse	Mary Midkiff (1822 - 1895)
Child	William Lowry (1843 - )
Child	John A. Lowry (1844 - )
Child	George Lowry (1846 - )
Child	Mary Jane Lowry (1849 - 1928)
Child	James David Lowry (1851 - 1924)
Child	Thomas Jefferson Lowry (1853 - 1929)
Child	Susan Lowry (1854 - )
Child	Rebecca E. Lowry (1856 - 1929)
Child	Samuel Franklin Lowry (1866 - 1920)