Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lowrey, Arthur D. (TY) October 1992
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR – Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association; Volume 28, October 1992, Number 2:
LOWREY, ARTHUR D. (TY), 81, husband of Helen, father of Brenton Lowrey & Jane 
Nelson, brother of Norton Lowrey, son of Myrtle (Reed) & (John) Carl Lowrey, 
son of Carrie G. (Thomas) & Ebenezer N. Lowrey, son of Jane (McMullen) & 
(Ebenezer) Norton Lowrey.  The family had farmed in Berlin Township for four 
generations.  E. Norton Sr. & Jane Lowrey farmed in Ohio, where she died, and 
after stopping off two years in Indiana, he came to Sec. 27 & 28 Berlin 
Township in 1858, and married a widow, Mary Hawley Thomas.
Norton & Jane’s children were:
1.	Archibald Lowrey, killed in the Battle of Stone River.
2.	John C. Lowrey, also a Civil War Veteran.
3.	Ebenezer N. Lowrey, born 1842, Civil War Veteran.
4.	Sirona Lowrey, wife of James Musgrove, mother of Robert.
5.	Jane (Jennie) Lowrey, wife of Nathan Hubbell of Saranac.
Norton & Mary’s child was:
6.	Abram (Pratt) Lowrey.
John C. Lowrey & wife Harriet farmed on the E1/4 SW1/4 Sec. 28 Berlin 
Township, on what is known as the George Cook farm today, as well as NW1/4 
NW1/4 Sec. 27.  Their daughter Bernice Jane was in the Eighth grade when Dan 
Slowinski was in the First grade at Coon School.  The teacher quit mid-year 
and the Board made Bernice Jane the teacher.  She taught him well, because 
with only three years schooling, he read the Grand Rapids Herald from front to 
back every nite of his adult life.  Later John & Harriet lived on Tupper Lake 
Street in Lake Odessa, second block west of Jordan Lake Avenue, in the house 
on the north side with a cement-block porch.  They owned the block of store 
buildings that included Urtel’s General Store, and the block that included 
Elfstrom’s Shoe Store.  Bernice Jane Lowrey married Jack Aungst and had 
daughters Jennie & Eva.  Eva married Dan Austin and their daughter Beulah 
married Oren Daniels and became mother of Larry, Dallas, Gary, & Margene.
Ebenezer N. Lowrey was 16 years old when his father moved to Michigan and had 
attended school in Ohio & Indiana.  He was engaged in farming at the outbreak 
of the Civil War and promptly enlisted in Company B, Sixteenth Regiment, 
Michigan Infantry Volunteers.  He was wounded at Cold Harbor and Gettysburg, 
thirteen times in all, and carried the Cold Harbor bullet in his body all his 
life.  After the war he came back to the farm and married his step-mother’s 
daughter, Carrie G. Thomas.  They farmed on the NE ¼ Sec. 28 & SE1/4 & NW1/4 
Sec. 28  & SW1/4 NW1/4 Sec. 27, 240 acres in all, where they built a beautiful 
VanderHeyden ivory brick Victorian-Italianate home in 1892.  Their son Carl 
sold this estate to Walter Reed in the 1950’s and the present owners, Bill & 
Ruth Allen, have replaced the house with a modern ranch-type.  They were 
active in the G. A. R. & Women’s Relief Corp, the Berlin Center Methodist 
Church, the Republican Party and the School Board.
Their children were:
1.	Frances Lowrey, died at one month.
2.	Willard Lowrey, a civil engineer in British Columbia.
3.	John Carl Lowrey, farmer in Berlin Township.
4.	Richard Roy Lowrey, farmer in Boston Township.
5.	Cecil C. Lowrey, died young.
6.	Harvey H. Lowrey, born 1878, Ionia County School Commissioner and 
later Superintendent of Inkster Consolidated Schools.
7.	Ed. N. Lowrey, born 1880, Sheriff of Ionia County.
8.	Earl E. Lowrey, farmer on the home place in Berlin Township.
9.	Hazel J. Lowrey, a teacher.
Abram Pratt Lowrey farmed the original homestead of Norton & Mary Lowrey, 
being the SE1/4 Sec. 28 Berlin, where he was born and his son Charles N. 
Lowrey was born, and Charles’ daughter Phyllis Shellenbarger (Mrs. Claud) was 
born, and her son was born.  The farm is well beyond its centennial year.


Additional Comments:
THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, RECENT DEATHS; SUMITTED WITH PERMISSION OF EDITOR, 
GRAYDEN D. SLOWINS.

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