Yesterday, I posed the question asking who was Aaron A. Lowe. One of the references in that article described an entry for Lottie Horne’s death in the Macon Telegraph. I hypothesized that Aaron could have been Mary Lowe’s brother. I haven’t proved that yet, but today I found a little more about Aaron and his family with another connection to Orrin C. Horne.
Since I had one reference from a newspaper, I decided to take another look at the same collection to see if Aaron was listed. The hunch worked. The first item I found was this dated 7 August 1898.
I knew that Aaron had served in the Confederate military based on the headstone photos on Find-A-Grave. But with this article, I find out that he was a judge in Hawkinsville, was the youngest child of another Aaron Lowe and had five siblings, one of whom married and had a son named E. W. Warren. It’s not a definite connection to Mary yet, but the possibility is still there because Mary’s gravestone says she was born on 2 May 1824, and Aaron’s gravestone says he was born on 19 April 1831 (producing ages that fit with the census record shown yesterday).
A little more looking through other issues of the paper shows that the elder Aaron died sometime before April 1843, because there are many notices of sales from his estate like this one dated 12 March 1844 that makes another connection between the Horne and Lowe families:
I don’t yet know where Daniel B. Lowe fits into the family except as executor for Aaron’s estate. I do know that Aaron’s death occurred before April 1843 because of this public notice printed on 11 April 1843:
To me, this would strengthen the theory that Aaron A. Lowe and Mary A. Lowe were siblings because it would give Orrin a compelling reason to apply to administer the estate. A couple years later, Orrin files some more paperwork on the estate, this time to dismiss further duties as administrator in 1846:
These notices weren’t all that I found on Aaron Lowe, either junior or senior. It seems that the elder Aaron had his mail forwarded several months before moving to Houston County because I found this notice from 16 October 1834:
Daniel B. Lowe appears here too; no, it doesn’t prove a connection, but we’ve established in the estate notices that Aaron and Daniel did at least know each other. But, this does help with a theory that Daniel might have been Aaron’s son and that the family all moved to Houston County together.
A little further down in the search results, there was another little gem from the personals column on 5 July 1901:
But then a year later, we finally get Aaron’s death notice on 4 October 1902:
So at age 70, Aaron A. Lowe was still going out for military service and died in that service during the Spanish-American War.
I wonder what I’ll find tomorrow…
Sources:
- "Brave Old Aaron Lowe," death notice, Macon Georgia Telegraph, 4 October 1902; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Houston April Sales," countywide sales announcements, Macon Georgia Telegraph, 12 March 1844, notes that the landed estate of Aaron Lowe was to be sold by Orrin C. Horne; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Personals," Macon Georgia Telegraph, 5 July 1901, notes that Aaron visited Macon from Hawkinsville to watch the races; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Public notices," Georgia Telegraph, 16 October 1834, announcement of undeliverable mail recipients at Perry, Georgia; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Public notices," Georgia Telegraph, 27 January 1846, notice of filing letters of dismission from the estate of Aaron Lowe by Orrin C. Horne, Administrator; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Public notices," Macon Georgia Telegraph, 11 April 1843, notice that Orrin C. Horne applied to be the administrator of Aaron Lowe's estate; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
- "Son of a Continental," Macon Daily Telegraph & Messenger, 7 August 1898, article describing Aaron A. Lowe's father's service in the Revolutionary War; online images, Digital Library of Georgia (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html : accessed 21 March 2012), Macon Telegraph: Georgia Historic Newspapers.
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