Both he and his brother James Lowry (also a minister) were graduates of the South Carolina College (now Univ of South Carolina), class of 1808. Rev. Joseph Lowry was a minister with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and graduated from Columbia Theologian Seminary in New York in 1813. Rev. Lowry received calls from Long Cane, Cedar Springs and several other A.R.P. churches in Newberry, South Carolina. But he settled on Bethel A.R.P. in Jefferson County, Georgia. On October 9th 1814, he was ordained as their pastor and continue until his death, July 20, 1840.
Rev. Lowry was married to the former Miss Mary Pressly on February 13, 1813 with whom he had three sons and nine daughters. One of their sons became a A.R.P. minister, another a Professor at Erskine College. Six of their grandsons became preachers, five in the A.R.P. Church and one a Baptist minister.
Both he and his brother James Lowry (also a minister) were graduates of the South Carolina College (now Univ of South Carolina), class of 1808. Rev. Joseph Lowry was a minister with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and graduated from Columbia Theologian Seminary in New York in 1813. Rev. Lowry received calls from Long Cane, Cedar Springs and several other A.R.P. churches in Newberry, South Carolina. But he settled on Bethel A.R.P. in Jefferson County, Georgia. On October 9th 1814, he was ordained as their pastor and continue until his death, July 20, 1840.
Rev. Lowry was married to the former Miss Mary Pressly on February 13, 1813 with whom he had three sons and nine daughters. One of their sons became a A.R.P. minister, another a Professor at Erskine College. Six of their grandsons became preachers, five in the A.R.P. Church and one a Baptist minister.
Inscription
A South Carolinian by birth and education; a worthy, faithful and pious minister of the gospel of the Associate Reformed Presbytery. He has left an affectionate family, and a large circle of friends in condolence, a mind enlightened by science and expanded by thought with a lofty sense of duty. Made his course useful, charitable, virtuous, and exemplary. He lived esteemed, and died regretted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. For him death had no terrors, and his mourning friends are consoled with the belief that their loss is his eternal gain.
The congregation of which he was long a worthy and faithful pastor, have erected this monument as a token of their affection for him in life, and a feeble tribute of respect to his memory in death.
Avarice and price were to his soul unknown,
Convinced that virtue only was his own;
A wise companion and an easy friend,
Unblamed through life, lamented in his end.
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