Robert Lowry
Born: March 10, 1830
Birthplace: Chesterfield District, South Carolina
Father: Colonel Robert T. Lowry Sr. 1806 – 1880
(Buried: Baldwyn Masonic Cemetery, Baldwyn, Mississippi)
Mother: Jemina Mary Rushing 1806 – 1840
(Buried: Lowery Cemetery, Decatur, Tennessee)
Wife: Maria Miller Gammage 1831 – 1873
(Buried: Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Mississippi)
Children:
Ella Lowry Lamb 1853 – 1941
(Buried: Greenville Cemetery, Greenville, Mississippi)
Lela Bartrell Lowry Jayne 1860 – 1947
(Buried: Greenville Cemetery, Greenville, Mississippi)
Robert F. Lowry 1864 – 1900
(Buried: Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Mississippi)
Patrick Henry Lowry 1865 – 1907
(Buried: Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Mississippi)
Occupation before War:
Attorney in Brandon, Mississippi
Civil War Career:
1861: 1st Lt. in Company B, 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1862: Major of 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862 – 1865: Colonel of 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
Helped put down the stir up of citizens in Jones County, Mississippi
1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry
Occupation after War:
1865: Attorney in Brandon, Mississippi
1865 – 1866: Mississippi State Senator
1866 – 1882: Attorney in Brandon, Mississippi
1882 – 1890: Governor of Mississippi
1890 – 1910: Attorney in Brandon, Mississippi
Died: January 19, 1910
Place of Death: Jackson, Mississippi
Age at time of Death: 79 years old
Burial Place: Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Mississippi
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