Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Lowe, William M.  October 12, 1882
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The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 18 Oct 1882
Death of Hon. Wm. M. Lowe
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  Col. Lowe died in this city, lat Thursday, Oct. 12, at 3:45 a. m.  Twelve 
months or more ago, he was attacked with bronchitis and lost his voice.  Last 
Spring, he had a serious attack of pneumonia in Washington City.  He came home 
in the Summer, greatly impaired in health, returned to Washington, and went, 
thence to Baltimore for medical advice, and was advised to go to Colorado. He 
returned from Colorado to enter the canvass for re-election to Congress, some 
of his friends saying that he was greatly improved and would be able to make a 
vigorous canvass.—The result proves that they were mistaken.  He went to 
Scottsboro and, afterward, to Tuscumbia and Florence, to see his friends, but 
was unable to speak.  Week before last he came home greatly oppressed in 
breathing.  Last Wednesday afternoon, his breathing became very difficult, yet 
he received visits from political friends as late, we hear as 9 o’clock p. m., 
and talked with them.  Shortly after, the difficulty of breathing increased, 
he called for and drank an egg nog and sweet milk, went to sleep and never 
became conscious up to the moment of his death.  We join with the community 
generally in profound sympathy with his sisters in their distress.
  Col. Lowe was a student in the Wesleyan University at Florence, a law 
student at Lebanon University, Tenn., and for some months, in the law school 
of the University of Virginia.  He had more than ordinary intellectual 
capabilities, unusual powers of irony and sarcasm, and affluent political 
ambition.  He entered political life as a speaker, advocating Douglas for 
President in 1860.
  In 1861, he volunteered as a private in a Huntsville company, which was 
assigned to the 4th Alabama regiment, and was seriously wounded in the head in 
the first battle of Manassas.  He was brought home, recovered, and Gov. A. B. 
Moore appointed him his aid with the rank of Colonel.  Afterward, he served as 
aid to Gen. Clanton and to Gen. Withers, but (so far as we have been able to 
ascertain) was never engaged in any perilous service after the first battle of 
Manassas.  He was captured on the South side of the Tennessee river in Morgan 
Co., Ala., we hear, just before the war ended, taken to some Northern prison, 
and, afterwards, released.
  In 1865-6, the Alabama Legislature elected him Solicitor of the Huntsville 
judicial circuit, and in ’67 or ’68, he was removed by U. S. military order.  
In 1870, he was elected as a Democrat to the Alabama Legislature and served 
one session.  In 1875 he represented Madison County in the Constitutional 
Convention, as a Democrat.  In 1878, he ran, as an Independent Greenback 
Democrat for Congress and was elected, and in 1880 as a candidate for re-
election, and defeated by popular vote, but given the seat by Congress.
  At his death, he was a candidate for re-election to Congress.
  Speaker Keifer, of the U. S. House of Representatives appointed the rest of 
the Alabama delegation in the House, Speers, of Ga., Hooker of Miss., Dibrell, 
McMillan, Simonton and Moore, of Tenn., to attend the funeral, and, we hear, 
Ex-Marshal Jos. H. Sloss as special Sergeant at-Arms.  None of the Congressmen 
were here.  Mr. Herbert started (the Montgomery Advertiser says) from 
Montgomery on Friday, expecting the funeral to occur on Saturday, but Col. 
Lowe’s remains were buried in our city Cemetery on Friday afternoon.

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