Hannah Elizabeth was born in 1843 in Tennessee, the second of nine children of James & Harriet (Bullen) Roberts. In 1866, when she was 22, she married Captain William Wilson Lowdermilk and moved with him to where his family was in Auburn, Sangamon County, Illinois, near the capital, Springfield.
Although Captain Lowdermilk was considered a hero for surviving the war, he was likely a damaged soul. He had his arm amputated at the shoulder in the field after the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known or the Battle of Guntown (Mississippi) in 1864. He was captured and spent 10 months in the ghastly Confederate Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Together they first had daughter Minnie who died in 1868 before she reached two years old. In the same year she died, another daughter, Harriet was born, likely named after her maternal grandmother. Seven years later, a son Arthur was born.
Captain Lowdermilk was involved in a number of endeavors, starting and running a newspaper in Auburn for a short period of time, as an insurance agent and then as postmaster, which was a political appointment. He also was president and chief organizer of an ex-POW group in Illinois which seems to have consumed much of his time. His biography indicates that he “went out West” sometime prior to 1881 but returned to Illinois. There was no mention if his family went with him. He then became a secretary to the Illinois Governor. He died in Auburn in early 1887 at the young age of 43, likely due to side effects of his war experience.
Mrs. Lowdermilk was also a young widow with children ages 19 and 12. Records indicate she followed in her husband’s footsteps and became postmistress in Auburn for a time after his death. Apparently, her daughter, Harriet or Hattie as she was known was an assistant postmistress.
However, Hattie married in 1891 to Thomas Copeland when she was 23, but they divorced in Chicago six years later. Months after her divorce was final Hattie married famed artist and architect, William Jean Beauley in August of 1897 in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin marriage was attributed to Mrs. Lowdermilk being ill (although she lived in Illinois), but more likely since Hattie was a divorced woman and the laws in Wisconsin were more liberal than those in Illinois.
Mrs. Lowdermilk seemed to own a number of properties in Auburn, IL and by 1897 she bought a two-story house in Chicago at 3602 Rhodes Ave. where she, Arthur and the Beauley’s lived.
Mrs. Lowdermilk died in 1905 in Auburn, Illinois at the age of 62. She had been a widow for 18 years. Although it is not certain, it is likely she was buried in the Auburn Cemetery near her husband.
In her will executed in 1898, she left the Chicago house (with a mortgage) to Hattie and her Auburn properties to son, Arthur.
Both children would go on to lead very colorful and rather troubled lives.
Name: Hanna E (Mrs) Loudermilk
Birth Year:1840
Gender: Female
Age: 65 Yr
Death Date: 8 Nov 1905
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Although Captain Lowdermilk was considered a hero for surviving the war, he was likely a damaged soul. He had his arm amputated at the shoulder in the field after the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known or the Battle of Guntown (Mississippi) in 1864. He was captured and spent 10 months in the ghastly Confederate Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Together they first had daughter Minnie who died in 1868 before she reached two years old. In the same year she died, another daughter, Harriet was born, likely named after her maternal grandmother. Seven years later, a son Arthur was born.
Captain Lowdermilk was involved in a number of endeavors, starting and running a newspaper in Auburn for a short period of time, as an insurance agent and then as postmaster, which was a political appointment. He also was president and chief organizer of an ex-POW group in Illinois which seems to have consumed much of his time. His biography indicates that he “went out West” sometime prior to 1881 but returned to Illinois. There was no mention if his family went with him. He then became a secretary to the Illinois Governor. He died in Auburn in early 1887 at the young age of 43, likely due to side effects of his war experience.
Mrs. Lowdermilk was also a young widow with children ages 19 and 12. Records indicate she followed in her husband’s footsteps and became postmistress in Auburn for a time after his death. Apparently, her daughter, Harriet or Hattie as she was known was an assistant postmistress.
However, Hattie married in 1891 to Thomas Copeland when she was 23, but they divorced in Chicago six years later. Months after her divorce was final Hattie married famed artist and architect, William Jean Beauley in August of 1897 in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin marriage was attributed to Mrs. Lowdermilk being ill (although she lived in Illinois), but more likely since Hattie was a divorced woman and the laws in Wisconsin were more liberal than those in Illinois.
Mrs. Lowdermilk seemed to own a number of properties in Auburn, IL and by 1897 she bought a two-story house in Chicago at 3602 Rhodes Ave. where she, Arthur and the Beauley’s lived.
Mrs. Lowdermilk died in 1905 in Auburn, Illinois at the age of 62. She had been a widow for 18 years. Although it is not certain, it is likely she was buried in the Auburn Cemetery near her husband.
In her will executed in 1898, she left the Chicago house (with a mortgage) to Hattie and her Auburn properties to son, Arthur.
Both children would go on to lead very colorful and rather troubled lives.
Name: Hanna E (Mrs) Loudermilk
Birth Year:1840
Gender: Female
Age: 65 Yr
Death Date: 8 Nov 1905
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Hannah Elizabeth was born in 1843 in Tennessee, the second of nine children of James & Harriet (Bullen) Roberts. In 1866, when she was 22, she married Captain William Wilson Lowdermilk and moved with him to where his family was in Auburn, Sangamon County, Illinois, near the capital, Springfield.
Although Captain Lowdermilk was considered a hero for surviving the war, he was likely a damaged soul. He had his arm amputated at the shoulder in the field after the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known or the Battle of Guntown (Mississippi) in 1864. He was captured and spent 10 months in the ghastly Confederate Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Together they first had daughter Minnie who died in 1868 before she reached two years old. In the same year she died, another daughter, Harriet was born, likely named after her maternal grandmother. Seven years later, a son Arthur was born.
Captain Lowdermilk was involved in a number of endeavors, starting and running a newspaper in Auburn for a short period of time, as an insurance agent and then as postmaster, which was a political appointment. He also was president and chief organizer of an ex-POW group in Illinois which seems to have consumed much of his time. His biography indicates that he “went out West” sometime prior to 1881 but returned to Illinois. There was no mention if his family went with him. He then became a secretary to the Illinois Governor. He died in Auburn in early 1887 at the young age of 43, likely due to side effects of his war experience.
Mrs. Lowdermilk was also a young widow with children ages 19 and 12. Records indicate she followed in her husband’s footsteps and became postmistress in Auburn for a time after his death. Apparently, her daughter, Harriet or Hattie as she was known was an assistant postmistress.
However, Hattie married in 1891 to Thomas Copeland when she was 23, but they divorced in Chicago six years later. Months after her divorce was final Hattie married famed artist and architect, William Jean Beauley in August of 1897 in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin marriage was attributed to Mrs. Lowdermilk being ill (although she lived in Illinois), but more likely since Hattie was a divorced woman and the laws in Wisconsin were more liberal than those in Illinois.
Mrs. Lowdermilk seemed to own a number of properties in Auburn, IL and by 1897 she bought a two-story house in Chicago at 3602 Rhodes Ave. where she, Arthur and the Beauley’s lived.
Mrs. Lowdermilk died in 1905 in Auburn, Illinois at the age of 62. She had been a widow for 18 years. Although it is not certain, it is likely she was buried in the Auburn Cemetery near her husband.
In her will executed in 1898, she left the Chicago house (with a mortgage) to Hattie and her Auburn properties to son, Arthur.
Both children would go on to lead very colorful and rather troubled lives.
Name: Hanna E (Mrs) Loudermilk
Birth Year:1840
Gender: Female
Age: 65 Yr
Death Date: 8 Nov 1905
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Although Captain Lowdermilk was considered a hero for surviving the war, he was likely a damaged soul. He had his arm amputated at the shoulder in the field after the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known or the Battle of Guntown (Mississippi) in 1864. He was captured and spent 10 months in the ghastly Confederate Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Together they first had daughter Minnie who died in 1868 before she reached two years old. In the same year she died, another daughter, Harriet was born, likely named after her maternal grandmother. Seven years later, a son Arthur was born.
Captain Lowdermilk was involved in a number of endeavors, starting and running a newspaper in Auburn for a short period of time, as an insurance agent and then as postmaster, which was a political appointment. He also was president and chief organizer of an ex-POW group in Illinois which seems to have consumed much of his time. His biography indicates that he “went out West” sometime prior to 1881 but returned to Illinois. There was no mention if his family went with him. He then became a secretary to the Illinois Governor. He died in Auburn in early 1887 at the young age of 43, likely due to side effects of his war experience.
Mrs. Lowdermilk was also a young widow with children ages 19 and 12. Records indicate she followed in her husband’s footsteps and became postmistress in Auburn for a time after his death. Apparently, her daughter, Harriet or Hattie as she was known was an assistant postmistress.
However, Hattie married in 1891 to Thomas Copeland when she was 23, but they divorced in Chicago six years later. Months after her divorce was final Hattie married famed artist and architect, William Jean Beauley in August of 1897 in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin marriage was attributed to Mrs. Lowdermilk being ill (although she lived in Illinois), but more likely since Hattie was a divorced woman and the laws in Wisconsin were more liberal than those in Illinois.
Mrs. Lowdermilk seemed to own a number of properties in Auburn, IL and by 1897 she bought a two-story house in Chicago at 3602 Rhodes Ave. where she, Arthur and the Beauley’s lived.
Mrs. Lowdermilk died in 1905 in Auburn, Illinois at the age of 62. She had been a widow for 18 years. Although it is not certain, it is likely she was buried in the Auburn Cemetery near her husband.
In her will executed in 1898, she left the Chicago house (with a mortgage) to Hattie and her Auburn properties to son, Arthur.
Both children would go on to lead very colorful and rather troubled lives.
Name: Hanna E (Mrs) Loudermilk
Birth Year:1840
Gender: Female
Age: 65 Yr
Death Date: 8 Nov 1905
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
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