JONES COUNTY, GA -  BIOS  Lowe, Henry H. 1785-1854

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HENRY ("Harry") H. LOWE (1785-1854) was born in
Jones County, Georgia, on 4 November
1785.132 He became a wealthy Harris County
planter. On 1 May 1821 Lowe was commissioned
major of the 95th (Jones County) Battalion on 1
May 1821, and he was promoted to lieutenant
colonel in Jones County on 15 October 1822. On
21 May 1827 he was commissioned justice of the
peace in Muscogee County, but soon removed to
Harris County. Lowe was recommissioned justice
of the peace for Harris County on 18 December
1827. He represented Harris County in the
Georgia House of Representatives, 1829, 1832.
Colonel Henry H. Lowe was a prominent figure in
the celebration of the Fourth of July in 1832
in Harris County. The legislature elected COL
Lowe brigadier general commanding the 1st
Brigade of the 10th Division, he being
commissioned on 8 December 1832. Lowe resigned
his commission as brigadier general in 1848. In
August of that year he represented Harris
County in the mass Democratic meeting held at
Stone Mountain.133 General Lowe died on 8 July
1854. He was buried in the cemetery just east
of Waverly Hall, Georgia, on Georgia Highway
208.134 His wife was the former Miss Mariah A.
Tarver, born on 30 September 1807, married on
26 August 1821, and died on 27 November 1852.
She was buried next to her husband.



History of the Georgia Militia 1783-1861 

Volume 1, Campaigns and Generals   page 319

132  also given as 1785

133 UR,22 August 1848

134     Description of the celebration of the
fourth  of     July   1832 in Harris County in
the Columbus Enquirer 28 July 1832