Erastus Preston Lowe was a failure as a farmer, but thrived as a merchant in the town of Greenville. He was a Civil War Veteran of the CSA Virginia 26th Unit and was captured at Gaines Farm at the battle of Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864 and was held at Point Lookout Maryland with his two first cousins Lorenzo Green Lowe and Thomas Garner Lowe and later transfered to Elmira Prison Camp in Elmira, New York under the guard of Buffalo Soldiers. He married Elizabeth Kathryn Pence, daughter of David and Mary Rankin (Clark) Pence and then moved from Greenville to two miles west of Lowell where he and his brother A.C. built a two story wooden hotel and livery near the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad stop just before the old bridge over the Greenbrier River. The town of Lowell, West Virginia is named after these brothers. In 1875, Erastus was carrying a canoe of feed up river, when he hit into a railroad pier. His boat overturned, and he drowned here during the spring flood in March and his body was not found until much later three miles downstream. Heartbroken, Elizabeth moved her family to her father David's farm and raised her two orphan children away from the hurly-burly of this RR stop. Elizabeth died almost destitute and was buried on the Dowdy Farm in the old Pence Cemetery.-- Written by Bill Bailey
The Independent-Herald, Hinton, West Virginia
Thursday, April 24, 1913, page 6
"38 Years Ago"
The body of E P Lowe, drowned in the Greenbrier on the 4th of March, was found last Sunday two miles from where he was drowned. The boys who discovered the body were John Chattin, Geo Kesler and __ Terry.
Contributor: Anonymous (48825891)
The Independent-Herald, Hinton, West Virginia
Thursday, April 24, 1913, page 6
"38 Years Ago"
The body of E P Lowe, drowned in the Greenbrier on the 4th of March, was found last Sunday two miles from where he was drowned. The boys who discovered the body were John Chattin, Geo Kesler and __ Terry.
Contributor: Anonymous (48825891)
Erastus Preston Lowe was a failure as a farmer, but thrived as a merchant in the town of Greenville. He was a Civil War Veteran of the CSA Virginia 26th Unit and was captured at Gaines Farm at the battle of Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864 and was held at Point Lookout Maryland with his two first cousins Lorenzo Green Lowe and Thomas Garner Lowe and later transfered to Elmira Prison Camp in Elmira, New York under the guard of Buffalo Soldiers. He married Elizabeth Kathryn Pence, daughter of David and Mary Rankin (Clark) Pence and then moved from Greenville to two miles west of Lowell where he and his brother A.C. built a two story wooden hotel and livery near the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad stop just before the old bridge over the Greenbrier River. The town of Lowell, West Virginia is named after these brothers. In 1875, Erastus was carrying a canoe of feed up river, when he hit into a railroad pier. His boat overturned, and he drowned here during the spring flood in March and his body was not found until much later three miles downstream. Heartbroken, Elizabeth moved her family to her father David's farm and raised her two orphan children away from the hurly-burly of this RR stop. Elizabeth died almost destitute and was buried on the Dowdy Farm in the old Pence Cemetery.-- Written by Bill Bailey
The Independent-Herald, Hinton, West Virginia
Thursday, April 24, 1913, page 6
"38 Years Ago"
The body of E P Lowe, drowned in the Greenbrier on the 4th of March, was found last Sunday two miles from where he was drowned. The boys who discovered the body were John Chattin, Geo Kesler and __ Terry.
Contributor: Anonymous (48825891)
The Independent-Herald, Hinton, West Virginia
Thursday, April 24, 1913, page 6
"38 Years Ago"
The body of E P Lowe, drowned in the Greenbrier on the 4th of March, was found last Sunday two miles from where he was drowned. The boys who discovered the body were John Chattin, Geo Kesler and __ Terry.
Contributor: Anonymous (48825891)
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