Person:Daniel Lowther (1)

... ... 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. ...

VA Grants 102, p. 552 ; Library of Virginia Digital Collection:Land Office Patents and Grants
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John G. Stringer & others ; 264 acres ; Lewis now Gilmer County ; Delivd. to Mr. Jas. Bennett
Mar. 13. 1850.

John B. Floyd Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia:
To all to whom these Presents shall come---GREETING: KNOW YE, That in conformity with a survey made on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, by virtue of Land Office Treasury Warrants, Nos. 5352 & 5165, there is granted by the said Commonwealth, unto John G. Stringer, William G. Stringer, Anna, now Anna McKinley, wife of William McKinley, children & heirs of Daniel Stringer dec. & unto John S. Hoffman, Daniel S. Lowther & William Lowther children and heirs of Eleanor Lowther decd. daughter of said Daniel Stringer decd. & wife of Robert H Lowther, a certain Tract or Parcel of Land, containing two hundred and sixty four acres situated in Lewis County now in Gilmer County, on the Little Kanawha river & bounded as follows, Viz: Beginning at a white oak standing on the Northerly side of said river one hundred & twenty poles above the mouth of Stinking Creek, and running thence N.5°W. 60 poles to a white oak N.75°W. 300 poles to a white oak; Then S.70°W. 53 poles to a Sugar; Thence S.40°W. 164 poles to a mulberry tree, corner to a Survey made for said Stringer Thence with said line reversed S.45°E. 40 poles, crossing the river to a Sycamore his corner; Thence N.42°E. 60 poles to a beech N.75°E. 102 poles to an ash on the bank of the river; Thence up the river with its meanders S.55°E. 160 poles to a Sugar; Thence N.78°E. 162 poles to the beginning with its appurtenances, being the same land that was patented to the said Daniel Stringer decd. on the 30th day of May 1837, which said patent by virtue of an order of the County Court of Lewis County showing the demise of the said Daniel Stringer prior to the issuing of said grant, has been cancelled & this issued in lieu thereof

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, with its appurtenances, to the said John G. & William G. Stringer, Anna McKinley, J. S. Hoffman, Daniel S. & William Lowther, and their heirs forever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said John B. Floyd Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the Lesser Seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Richmond, on the thirty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine and of the Commonwealth the Seventy fourth ~
John B. Floyd