ALFRED "AL" AND EDITH LOWERY FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT Indexed and contributed for use in USGenWeb Project by: Wendy Garner USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. © 1998 by Wendy Garner. This file may be freely copied for non- profit purposes. All other rights reserved. ALFRED "AL" AND EDITH LOWERY FAMILY Born: Place: Died: Place: Occupation: Miner. He leased the Tiger Mine near Garnet, Montana. Married: he married Edith ?. Children: Al and Edith had three daughters. 1) Addie Lowery Born: Place: Died: Place: 2) Irene Lowery Born: Place: Died: Place: 3) Edith Lowery Born: Place: Died: Place: Sometime in the late 1890's Al Lowry worked the Nancy Hanks Mine and hit a vein of rich red ore which assayed out to $500.00 per ton. It was the first rich strike at Garnet. In late 1905 he again working at the Nancy Hanks Mine found a continuation of the vein and again began shipping the red ore but the vein was quickly lost. Al Lowery leased mines, and his wife had the Post Office in Garnet, Montana. The Lowery home was located at the lower end of Garnet not far from China Grade. Sam Ritchey wrote, "at one time the building was a hotel. I remember the big kitchen." A large portion of the house was not used by the family. The house later burned to the ground because Garnet had no fire fighting equipment. Mrs. Edith Lowery gave piano lessons and Sam Ritchey and other children in Garnet were her students. The three Lowery daughters attended school in Garnet and are photographed with their classmates in 1902. Mrs. Lowery ran the Post Office from her home as late as 1924. Billy Liberty, the stage driver, picked up the mail to take to Bearmouth, then brought the mail to Garnet, and the townspeople picked it up at the Lowery's. Bibliography: Hammond, Helen 1990. Garnet Was Their Home, unknown publisher. Hammond, Helen 1983. Garnet-Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, Missoula, Montana.