Anna
(Minerd) Lowry
(1868-1933+)
Anna E. (Minerd) Lowry was born in 1868 in Dunbar, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Isaac and Catherine (Smiley) Minerd.
In
1895, at the age of 27, Anna married Gipson R. Lowry (1873-1933). They had at least three children.
Sadly, 2 of their children died young -- a son, who was buried at Franklin Cemetery in Dunbar, PA, and an infant who died in December 1904 at the family home at Oliver, PA, and was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Dunbar. The Uniontown Daily News Standard reported that the elder son's remains would "soon be removed to the family lot in Mt. Auburn."
Their only daughter surviving to adulthood was Emma Cramer Agona. She lived in Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA.
In 1920, when the federal census was taken, Gipson and Anna were residing in Harrison City, Westmoreland County, PA, where he worked as a coal miner.
At age 59, Gipson died at home at Fairbank, Fayette County, PA on May 16, 1933. He was buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Dunbar, PA. The funeral service was conducted by Anna's cousin, Rev. David E. Minerd.
Anna's fate is unknown, though she was last known to be living in Jeannette in 1944.
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