Person:Jacob Lower (2)

JACOB is of interest to this WeRelate.org "Watcher" because Jacob is buried in the city (Noblesville) in which "White Creek" currently lives. JACOB is not a BLOOD relative, but is a member of the large group of "Hirstein Lowers" from the Saarland. It is doubtful that any of Jacob's descendants are still residents of Hamilton County.

Below is a map of Pennsylvania, which shows the location of Berks County, northwest of Philadelphia.

Around 1788 to 1790, Jacob's father relocated the family (and some others) to Virginia's Roanoke Valley.

As shown in the data, Jacob also lived in Wayne County, Indiana. Wayne is in the eastern part of Indiana, and Richmond is the county seat. Adjacent to Wayne is Fayette County, where Jacob also lived for a while (as shown). Just west of Fayette is Rush County, where some of the Hirstein Lowers still can be found.

Noblesville is the county seat for Hamilton County, which is the next county north of Indianapolis, Indiana. When Jacob died here in 1853, the community was still very new. Hamilton County had only been organized 30 years earlier in 1823. In circa 1830 the first official record of the Noblesville courthouse appears. The city was a very small place when Jacob lived here! Since 2000, Hamilton County is one of the fastest growing counties in the entire US! Also in Noblesville, in the Carey Cemetery, www.findagrave.com lists some Lowers who do not match up to any known by "White Creek".

In the northeastern corner of Hamilton County (White River Township), there is a group of Lower families which seem to have been residents for a very long time. A road in the area has even been named for them. A link between them and any of the other Lower/Lauer groups in the USA has not been found. As of this date, none of them have been entered into this WeRelate database.

In "White Creek's" own Lower family, there are several other living relatives in Hamilton County; therefore pages for them have not been created in WeRelate.org. However, one deceased cousin, Stephen Lower (born in Wabash) is buried in the county, and there is a page for him on the site.

Jacob's children had interesting and sometimes tragic lives. One of them died in the infamous Andersonville Civil War prison. A daughter (Lucinda) moved to near Anderson, Indiana (in the next county from Hamilton), where one of Daniel Lower's (1792-1876) sons (Peter Lower 1830-1909) migrated to, from the Urbana, Indiana area. Jacob Lower's son William, was reported killed in the infamous "Mountain Meadow Massacre" of the famous "Francher Party" in 1857 in Utah. A major motion picture was made of that event, staring Jon Voight. Jacob's son John Strange Lower had an interesting life as apparently a physican during the Civil War.

Of Jacob's family, it would seem that only he was buried in Noblesville. It seems that this branch of the Hirstein Lowers had "happy feet", as so many of them were scattered over the country.

--White Creek 05:08, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

In the summer of 2014, this compiler discovered a "link" between his Lower line, and Jacob's line in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The "link" was through the marriage of William Harley Lower and a relative, Delores Carolyn Regula, in Tuscarawas County, where this compiler's ggg-grandfather (Daniel: 1792-1876) once lived. This Lower/Regula couple also have WeRelate.org pages.

--White Creek 04:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Akerboom, Jack. Descendants of Hans Lauer Lower. (Morgantown, Pennsylvania: Masthof Press)
   807 Pages, 2002.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} History of Fayette County, Indiana
   1885.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} William Slager, in RootsWeb.com.

   In his posting, Bill refers to Jack Akerboom, Patrick Pearsey, and John Tippet in his posting of sources.

4. ↑ TOMBSTONE.
5. ↑ The Methodist Church members (Fayette County) met at the Lower home. At that time there were two Lower families: Jacob and Joe.