Family:Robert Lowther and Ellen Stringer (1)

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Facts and Events
Marriage[1] Abt 1825 Harrison, West Virginia, United States
Children
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Aft 13 Mar 1850 Texas, United States

Research Notes

  • Not sure if Huffman is meant to be a son of this family or another? --Cos1776 21:36, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
References
  1. Lowther, Minnie Kendall. History of Ritchie County: with biographical sketches of its pioneers and their ancestors, and with interesting reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian times. (Wheeling, W. Va.: Wheeling News Litho Co., c1911)
    p 16.

    ... Dr. Robert married Mrs. Ellen Stringer Huffman, and located at Weston, and from there migrated to Mississippi, where he died after a nine days' illness of fever. His wife soon followed him to the grave from a broken heart, and the half-brother brought the two little sons, aged four and six years, back to their grandfather, Jesse, near the year 1839. Daniel was educated at Lexington and West Point, and after finishing his college work, came to Harrisville, where he opened a law office, and where he died a few months later, in 1856. William, who was also a lawyer, went to Texas, where he met his death at the hands of a man that he had decided a case against. Huffman, who was a colonel in the Confederate army, and who lost a leg in the cause, died at Clarksburg, unmarried. ...