Family:Andrew Lowe and Amy Randolph (1)

Information on Andrew Lowe's second marriage to Amy Emerine Randolph:

Andrew R. Lowe married second, Amy Emerine Randolph on October 13, 1833 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. (Source: Gary Stoltman, e-mail: Stopan@aol.com), cites an affidavit of "Family Record" that was submitted by Levi and Martin Kennedy declaring that " the following is true copy taken from the original Family Bible Record of the family of Andrew R. Lowe deceased to wit":

"Andrew R. Lowe and Amy Randolph was Married on the 13th October A.D. 1833 by Wm. Hall, Esq."

Amy Emerine Randolph, born September 21, 1816, in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and died April 19, 1899(Source: Gary Stoltman). On the date of their wedding, Andrew R. Lowe would have been about 73 years old, and Amy Emerine Randolph had just turned 17 a few weeks prior! Amy Randolph married second, David Norris, b. abt. 1825, Tennessee (source: 1850 census, Tennessee), d. aft 1880. Amy and David were divorced in 1866-67, and David married second, Mary Hyder VanHoy in Crossville, Tennessee. (Source: Pension Application of Mary Hyder VanHoy) David was the son of James Y.2 Norris (Abner1), b. abt. 1805 in South Carolina and Mary ???, b. abt. 1801, d. bet. 1851-1859. (Source: Anne Leggett McDonald). David Norris was listed in the 1850 census, age 25 - b. Tennessee, with James Norris, age 47 NC, Mary age 49 TN, David 25, Catharine 17, Mary 15, Rachael 13.

Children from second marriage: (source: Chuck Tilman)

i. William David Lowe, b. November 8, 1835, Tennessee, d. September 29, 1906, buried in Buck

       Cemetery, Slickford, Kentucky .   He married Sarah Ann Hancock on January 11, 1864.

ii. James S. Lowe, b. 1838, Tennessee, d. February 12, 1862, at Camp Williams, Casey, Kentucky. James died during the Civil War.

Note: it should be noted that Amy had another child, John Elbert Harrison Lowe, born June 21, 1840, in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, that was listed in the Wayne County 1860 census. Since Andrew died in 1838, it appears that this may have been the first child of David Norris and Amy. The other children of David Norris were listed in the 1850 census with 'Norris' as their surname, but in the 1860 census, the same children were listed with 'Lowe' as their surname. Apparently, Amy later decided to raise her children as "Lowe's" instead of using her second husband's surname, and her children apparently continued to use the Lowe surname. This is confirmed in the following account: (source: Chuck Tilman)

From "Mother's Application for Army Pension" which Amy filed after the death of her son, James S. Lowe:

"On this 2nd day of July,1875, before me personally appeared Amy Lowe of the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposed and says David Norris to whom she had supposed herself legally married, entered the service of the United States on or about the 10th day of March 1865, calling her Amy Lowe and informing her that their marriage was null and void and that he did not intend to live with her anymore. She further states that said David Norris abandoned her before he entered the service and has not lived with her since. She further states that the letter the said David Norris wrote to her as above stated is lost or mislaid and cannot be found. She further states that David Norris abandoned her April the 9th, 1861."

Subscribed and sworn to before me by Amy Lowe this 26th day of July, 1875 Jabez Edwards, J.P.

Also another document from the same papers:

"Evidence Why Record Proof of Marriage Cannot be Adduced"

State of Kentucky, County of Wayne, SS

"On this 15th day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in a forsaid county and State: Amy Lowe, a resident of the county of Wayne, who is known to me as the widow of Andrew R. Lowe, and mother of James S. Lowe, deceased, who was a Private in Company H, commanded by Captain F.A. Alexander in the 1st Regiment of Kentucky Cav Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Frank Walford in the War of 1861-2 and who being my me first duly sworn, doth on her oath state, that evidence of public record of marriage of the above named Andrew R. Lowe with herself cannot be adduced for the reason that she was married in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. That said county is now infested with rebel guerillas and there is no mail communication, therefore is impracticable for her to obtain record evidence of her marriage. That there are no eye witnesses to her marriage now surviving."

As they say, "every story has two sides", and so with the story of Amy Lowe and David Norris! On the pension application of Mary Hyder VanHoy, David's second wife, the following information: (Source: Mary and Don Bell)

"Mary Hyder VanHoy married David Norris at the home of a Hale in Cumberland County, Tennessee. David was divorced in 1866/67 at Crossville, Tennessee, from Amy Lowe, who was a widow when he married her. He charged her, Amy Lowe, with adultry".

Second marriage of Amy to David Norris: (source: Chuck Tilman and Gary Stoltman)

i. John Elbert Harrison Norris/Lowe, b. June 21, 1840, in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, d. March 29, 1925, in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He married Louisa E.D. Litrell on January 13, 1863, in Powersburg, Kentucky. John E.H. Lowe enlisted in James Dicks' "H" Co., 1st Regiment, Kentucky Calvalry Volunteers at Monticello, Kentucky, and was injured while lifting timbers and building breast-works prior to battle at Knoxville, Tennessee about November 1, 1863. There is a document that suggests that he was "captured" and a "prisoner of war" for four months ending September 15, 1862, when he was paroled (exchanged) near Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Company was mustered out on December 31, 1864. By 1889, he had moved to Belle Plaine, Sumner County, Kansas and by 1907, he moved to Oklahoma where he died in 1925. He is buried in Mulhall, Oklahoma (source: Gary Stoltman and Chuck Tilman).

ii. Nancy Catherine (Kit) Norris/Lowe, b. January 1845, in Kentucky. She married Will Hancock.

iii. Samuel E. Norris/Lowe, b. 1848 (listed in 1850 census as follows: Amy 33, William D. 15, James S. 12, John E. 10, Nancy C. 5, Samuel E. 2, Mary Norris 27(supposedly sister of husband David), Patrick H. 5. Amy born in North Carolina, William D. born in Tennessee)

iv. Absom (or Abner) Norris/Lowe, b. February, 1849, in Tennessee (according to the 1850 and 1860 census).

v. Adam Norris/Lowe, b. August 18, 1852, in born in Tennessee (according to the 1850 and 1860 census), d. September 7, 1937 in Wayne County, Kentucky. He married first, Queen Victoria Craig on July 22, 1873, in Wayne County, Kentucky, and second, to Ellen Pittman.

vi. Michael Simpson Norris/Lowe, b. 1854, in Kentucky, no further info.

vii. Mary Jane Norris/Lowe, b. 1856, in Kentucky, married Pierce Polson.

viii. Monroe Norris/Lowe, b. September 12, 1859, in Wayne County, Kentucky, d. May 13, 1938. He married Martha Hicks

ix. Louisa Norris/Lowe, b. August 21, 1861, in Kentucky, d. February 15, 1941. She married James Littrell.