Tilley Wirt LOWREY7,1,2,3

29th Dec 18821,2,3,4 - 21st Apr 19445

Life History

29th Dec 1882

Born in Belleview, McLennan, or Bellevue, Clay, Texas.1,2,3,4

between 1900 and 1910

Resident in Chester, Arkansas, Arkansas.1,2

8th Dec 1913

Birth of son Tilley Wirt LOWREY in Arkansas.8,9,4

1917

Resident in DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas.3

21st Apr 1944

Died in Arkansas County, Arkansas.5

Other facts

 

Married Nellie UNKNOWN.

 

Resident in Arkansas County, Arkansas.6

 

Birth of daughter Pansy LOWRY.

Notes

  • From Wirt's WWI Draft Registration record, we get some additional information that family sources had not provided to me.

    The card has no date, and is in a different format than any others I have seen.  For one thing it is filled in with a typewriter.  All others I have seen are handwritten.  There is no date, also unusual.  It would have likely been in 1917, though I have seen some dated in 1918.

    We see his full name for the first time:  Tilley Wirt Lowrey.  Note the difference in the spelling of the surname.  All the family sources spell it Lowry, as do all the censuses I have seen.  However, on his sister Ruth's gravestone, the name is spelled Lawery.

    This source gives us his full birth date, Dec 29, 1882.  There is a bit of confusion on the birth place.  Censuses have already told us he was born in Texas.  The card itself reports his birthplace as Belleview, Texas.  This is a town in McLennan County, near Waco.  However, Ancestry.com in representing the information on the card, has listed the birthplace as Bellevue.

    I was surprised to find this also is the name of a town in Texas, butit is in Clay County, up north near the Red River.  This may be correct, since we know that after about three years in Texas, Wirt's parent's moved north over the border into Indian Territory.  I have not yet discovered exactly where.

    I have found that there were a good number of Lowrys living in that area of Texas.  There are still some prominent families in north Texas named Lowry.  Some genealogies are available that report on families there at the time John and Sallie were there.  It is possible that Johnand Sallie moved to Clay County near some of his kinfolks who had moved down there from Indiana, while his family had moved to Arkansas.  For some reason they were not satisfied there and moved north along with a flood of other European North Texas settlers into Oklahoma Territory or Indian Territory.

    Wirt's residence at the time he registered for the draft was DeWitt, Arkansas County, Arkansas.  The card does not give the name of his wife, who is referred only as Mrs. T W Lowrey.  He signed the card as T WLowrey.  Family sources I have seen have his only as Wirt Lowry.

Sources

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