JOHN
A. LOWMAN and TEMPA STONE LOWMAN THURMOND
On the left is a daughter who married a Champain and 2 grand children. On the right is a son named
Joe. He died at age 17.
John A. Lowman was born in 1852. He died on
He lived most of his life near the Dawson Co., Gilmer,
John was born in
My grandfather tells a story about John A.. Near the end of the war between the states he was twelve years old. During the war the home guard lived off the land so the people would hide their animals and food. Martin sent John to check on them and he ran up on the guard. They made him get off his horse and the were about to take it and he started to cry. The leader came up and told the others that he knew the boy's father well and they were not going to take his horse so they let him go.
My father said John W. told him he could remember his father making legal
whiskey. He had a federal permit. Once ever few months a government man would
come by and test it. I am not sure when this ended but it must have been before
they went to
John did own 240 acres of land on
Tempa L. Stone Lowman Thurmond was born in Gilmer
Co. on
I can just recall her. She died when I was just over five years old. Her and I think one of her daughters that worked in a plant, that made stuffed animals, gave me a stuffed cat. I am not sure what became of it. She also gave me a small pink plastic pistol that came out of a gum ball machine. I still have that today.
Jay tells a story pasted on by his father. When they were moving to Texas.They were loading all their goods on the train. The conductor was trying to hurry them up. He told them he was going to leave them. John A. told him to go ahead if he needed to. There would be another one along behind him. The conductor held the train.
On a trip to Chattanooga John A. and John W., still a kid, were still traveling at dark. They saw a light at a house and walked up to it. The man inside put out the light. When John knotted on the door, no one answered. John said, "A man and his boy need a place to sleep tonight.". There still was no answer. John kicked in the door. The man inside was afraid. John said, "Old man you have nothing to be afraid of. Me and the boy needed a place to sleep and you would not open the door." They stayed the night and left the next day.
John and Tempa had nine children that I know of.
They had six girls and three boys. The girls were Loumanda,
Senie, Rissie, Luler, Eller and Tempa. The boys
were Lewis, John W., and Joe. Two of the girls stayed in
John made all his own shoes for the whole family. He would start with the oldest child in the Fall and make them in order from the oldest to the youngest. Granddaddy said he got his shoes just before Christmas. During the Summer all the kids would go barefoot. They only got one pair a year.
This would have had to have happened within a year or two of his death and Daddy can recall this. John A was over six foot tall. He killed two very large bull snakes. He brought them by to show everyone. He held them up and they were longer than he was tall.
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John' family Bible was pasted to J. W. Lowman who pasted it on to Coy Lowman. I has their names a little different. The Bible shows the following:
Tempa and John Married October 26, 1873.
Tempa Lowman born June 4, 1856.
John Lowman born 1852.
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William Lewis Lowman Born May 21 1875.
Mary Lucina Lowman Born March 12, 1877
Louisa Terissa Lowman born July 2, 1876 or 1886
Lumanday Reminday born January 13,1883
Lueller Malinda born May 1, 1885
Susan Luanna born June 9, 1887
John A. Washington Lowman born March 23, 1889
James Bengman Lowman born August 14, 1891.
Tempa Lurand Lowman born June 29, 1894
Joseph Keener Lowman born December 14, 1897
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James Bengman Lowman died May 25, 1896
Terissa Burrell died Feburary 15, 1903
William Lewis Lowman died October 5, 1915
Tempa Champion died Feburary 3, 1918
Joseph K. Lowman Died Feburary 18, 1918
John A. Lowman died March 18, 1919
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Tempa L. Lowman died May 11, 1951
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Limer Gertude Champion born June 18, 1912
Dewey Duit Champion born April 8, 1914
Lewis Lee Champion born Feburary 3, 1918
Beney Dewitt Champion died October 6, 1920
William Champion died August 5, 1927
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