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Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 3               Generation 4                   Generation 5
 
                                                       +-- Edmond Lowder (?)
                                                       |   (????-????)   
                        +-- Ledocus Brady Lowder ------+
                        |   (1870-????)                |
 Corinna Brady Lowder --+                              +-- Eliza Lowder
 (1895-1976)            |                                  (1834->1910)
                        +-- Arabella Plummer
                            (~1871-1917)

Sources:

• The 1894 marriage license for L. Brady Lowder lists father as Edmond Lowder and mother as Eliza Lowder. From this we would assume that Lowder was the father's surname. However, the mother Eliza is found in 1860, 1870 and 1880 census records as Eliza Lowder living without a husband and in the 1850 census she along with her sister Lunda are living with their mother Elizabeth Lowder. Lowder is a common surname in Stanly County, so both could be correct.

Children

(all children with Arabella Plummer)

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
2	1900 United States Federal Census, Charlotte Twp., Mecklenburg County, NC, Enumeration District 42, Pg 4B. Date of census 5 June 1900. Line 75-77: Robert A. Plummer(head) age 64, born Dec. 1835, widower, occupation miner; Margate A. Louda (daughter) age 29, born Nov 1871, married 6 yrs, 1 child born, 1 child living, occupation seamstress; Brada C. Louda (granddaughter) age 4, born 1896.
3	State of North Carolina Marriage Licence, Mecklenburg County June 13, 1894, Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds Office, Marriage Records, Vol 1894 L. B. Lowder for the marriage of himself (of Charlotte NC age 24 color White, father Edmond Lowder (deceased), mother Eliza Lowder (living in Anson Co, NC)) and M.A. Plummer (of Charlotte, age 23, color white, father R.A. Plummer (living in Charlotte, NC), mother L.E. Plummer (deceased). J.W.Cobb, Register of Deeds John H. Boyd, Minister of the Pres. Church, united M. Arabella Plummer and L. Brady Lowder on the 13th of June 1894 at Charlotte, NC. Witnesses: C(?)S. Critckey(?), L.L.Macksey(?) and R. A. Plummer.
4	Recollections of granddaughter in law Jetta Williams

Source notes

• Searches in the following locations have failed to find Brady Lowder:
  1) Page-by-page search of 1870 and 1880 Charlotte, Mecklenburg, NC census data. Two Lowders were located, neither was correct.
  2) Page-by-page search of 1870 and 1880 Stanly County, NC townships. There are a large number of Lowders here, but no Brady or anything that might be read or interpreted as Brady. A few individuals with initials ""B."" were found. However, Lowders with first name Lawrence and Ledocus are found in 1870 and 1880.
  3) A full country search for Brady Lowder in the 1870 and 1880 census data. Searches on just Lowder and just first or last name Brady also gave no result.
  4) Similar searches of British census data for 1891, 1871 and 1861 gave no returns.
  5) Searches of immigration lists, military records and other data available from Ancestry.com gave no results.
  
  Family tradition says that Brady Lowder was killed in a streetcar accident shortly after the birth of Corinna Brady Lowder. There does not appear to be any record of his existence in the electronic data sets. A Brady Carl Lowder was born in Stanly County in 1899. It seems possible that there is a connection between these two individuals, but I can not establish it at this time.
  
  E. Brady Williams, Jr. 7-July 2007 revised 18 July 2008

Conjecture

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1870 United States Federal Census, Big Lick Twp., Stanly County, NC, Page 30. Date of census 5 July 1870. Lines 9-11:Eliza Lowder, 36, keeping house; James E., 7; Lawrence, 5 months, b. February. All b. NC. The next listing (lines 12-16: Lundy Lowder, 34, keeping house; James W., 13, at home; Nancy J., 10; William, 2; Elizabeth, 60, can not write. All b. NC. The age for Lawrence matches that for L. Brady Lowder, and the mother's name is correct.
2	1880 United States Federal Census, District 206, Big Lick Twp., Stanly County, NC, Page 24. Date of census 12 June 1880. Lines 44-47:Lizie Lowder, 36, single, keeping house; E. James, son, single, 18; Ledocus, son, 11, Joshua, son, 6. All and all parents b. NC.
3	1850 United states federal Census, Smiths Twp, Stanly County, NC, page 11. Census dated 1 Oct 1850. Lines 19-21: Elizabeth Lowder, 48, can not read or write English; Eliza, 16, in school; Lunda, 12, in school. All b. NC.
4	1860 United states federal Census, Stanly County, NC, page 146. Census dated 24 July 1860. Lines 37-40: Elizabeth Lowder, 55, farmer, $300 real/$30 personal property, can not read or write English; Eliza, 25; Landa, 22; Jamers Herman, 2. All b. NC.
4	Recollections of granddaughter in law Jetta Williams
1	1870 United States Federal Census, Almond Twp., Stanly County, NC, Page 30. Date of census 13 Aug 1870. Lines 26-28: Harrison Lowder, 21, farmer; Elizabeth Lowder, 23, keeping house, can not read or write; Luther 11 months, at home, born July. All b. NC. The age for Luther matches that for L. Brady Lowder, and the mother's name is correct; however, this record seems less likely to be L. Brady since the father's name is wrong and since the Eliza Lowder above can be followed into Anson County in 1910 census. This agrees with the information on the marriage certificate above.

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