Mahlon B. Lowery
May 16, 1832
Feb. 15, 1908
Buried
Fredonia Cemetery, Caldwell County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 12 October
2013.
Malin [sic] B. Lowery is enumerated in the
household of John and Grace Lowery on the 1850 Caldwell County, Kentucky
census.[1] John Lowery and Grace Ordway married 22 September 1825.[2]
They are buried at Old Fredonia Cemetery .
Mahlon B. Lowery
married Miss Lucy C. Rorer 23 December 1869 in Caldwell County.[3]
This marriage bond contains quite a bit of information. The groom was 35 years
old, was born and currently lived in Caldwell County, was a farmer and this was
his first marriage. His father was born in Virginia and his mother was born in
New Hampshire. Miss Rorer, the bride,
was age 20, was born in Crittenden County, Kentucky and currently lived in
Caldwell County and this was her first marriage. Her parents were born in
Virginia. Richard Rorer, father of the bride, gave consent for the marriage
license to be issued.
[1]
1850 Caldwell County, Kentucky census, Dist. 1, Family #426, database online,
Ancestry.com, accessed 7 March 2017.
[2]
Brenda Joyce Jerome. Caldwell County,
Kentucky Marriages 1809-1832, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1996),
88.
[3] Brenda
Joyce Jerome. Caldwell County, Kentucky
Marriages 1866-1873, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 2002), 61.
Published 16 May 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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