CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - BIBLE - Samuel Lowe Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Buehler Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm LOWE BIBLE Note: About the bible--some explanation is needed here. When I began to study the material several years ago, I suddenly realized that all the data on the Marriage and Births pages and several entries on the Death page ap-peared to have been written by the same hand with same pen and ink and at the same time. After checking to find that the bible was not published until about 1872, I surmised that perhaps it was given as a gift to Samuel and Mary Ann and events prior to that time were all added at once. Samuel's death seems to have been recorded by the same person but at a different time. I therefore believe the first entries were made between 1884 and 1889. Another clue to this conclusion was the realization that the John Fletcher Lowe Bible (now owned by my brother) is identical. There were also a couple of errors in the data. John Fletcher was born in 1848, not 1850, accordong to census and other family data, and his tombstone. Apparently the year of birth is wrong for either Amada (Amanda) Ardella or Mary Emma. I don't think babies born at six or seven months survived in those days and I have seen a marrage record for Mary Emma I think. Another note: The two entries at the bottom of the Deaths page refer to great-grandsons of Samuel. They were sons of John Fletcher Lowe, Jr. of Ft. Valley so the one referred to as Jr. was actually the IIIrd. SAMUEL LOWE BIBLE MARRIAGES Samuel Lowe and Mary Ann Vinson Was Married July 28th 1836 BIRTHS Samuel Lowe Was Born Oct 6th 1815 Mary Ann Vinson was born Sept 15th 1819 Pamelia Ann Lowe Was Born Sept 6th 1839 William Henry Harrison Lowe Was Born June 10th 1841 Thomas Anderson Lowe Aug 25th 1842 James Ellison Lowe Was Born Dec 21st 1845 Sarah Frances Lowe Was Born March 3rd 1846 John Fletcher Lowe Was Born March 4th 1850 Amada Ardella Lowe Was Born June 25th 1852 Mary Emma Lowe Was Born Jany 22nd 1853 Ella Lenora Lowe Was Born July 28th 1857 Samuel Warren Lowe Was Born Jan 12 1860 Robert Reed Lowe Was Born Nov 10 1863 DEATHS Samuel Lowe died Aug 19th A.D. 1889 in the seventy fourth year of his age. Mary Ann Lowe Died December 31-1895 James Ellison Lowe Was Killed at the Battle of Vicksburg June 18th 1863 Robert Reed Lowe Died June 11th 1866 William Henry Harrison Lowe Died Jany 23rd 1884 From injuries received in a Fall Thomas Anderson Lowe Died Feb 19-1915 James A. Lowe died Ft. Valley Ga. Oct 15-1958 John F. Lowe, Jr Born Dec 29- 1906