"The LaFayette Sun" - March 8, 1893, documents a damaging tornado that tore through Chambers County with a long list of names and a description of property loss:

.....John T. Lowe – every building completely destroyed. Loss between two and three thousand dollars.

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"The LaFayette Sun" - February 11, 1931:

John T. Lowe Passes After Brief Illness.

John T. Lowe, aged 81 years, prominent LaFayette citizen, died at his home on Columbus Street last Saturday afternoon at two o'clock following a brief illness of about ten days. His condition had not been regarded as serious until a short time before his death when he began to sink steadily.

The deceased was a life-long resident of Chambers County, born near Macedonia Church and grew to manhood in the same community. He made his home at Penton for a long period of years, where he was active in the affairs of that community and in the church at Macedonia. He served as an official there for many years. About fifteen years ago he moved to LaFayette, where he had made his home since that time.

He was first married to Miss Bettie Sutton, of Chambers County, and following her death he was again married to Mrs. Callie Simmons, of Roanoke, who died about two years later. A third wife, Mrs. Lula Heath Lowe, survives. The deceased was one of the staunch men of the county, interested in those things which make for the best interest of his county and people. A man of many friends and a friend of many men best describes the well-known and respected Chambers County citizen.

Funeral service was held from the Macedonia church on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock with Elder Parrish, pastor of the church, officiating and being assisted by Rev. J. W. McBrayer, pastor of the LaFayette Methodist Church. Interment was in the Macedonia cemetery with Robinson & Cutler in charge.

Surviving are a wife, Mrs. Lula Lowe; four sons, S. W. Lowe, C. W. Lowe and A. A. Lowe, of LaFayette, and H. R. Lowe, of Penton; two daughters, Mrs. Lula Abernathy and Mrs. Otis Edge, of Buffalo, and a number of other relatives and friends.

AND...in the same issue:

The Reaper and his Scythe.

During the last several days the Grim Reaper has made his visit to Chambers County and in his wake appears the fallen stalks of two of the county's noblest sons, D. H. B. Abernathy and JOHN T. LOWE.

Uncle Dave, nearly 93 years of age, carried an empty sleeve, a perpetual reminder of the conflict of 1861 - 1865, was a noble son of those days as he was in these. Few men live to the grand age of 93 and fewer men get out of life the real joy that he did, a man of few enemies and many friends, a lovable character, a youth in age, but with the fundamentals of loyalty distilled into his very being. Uncle Dave cut his course out of rugged times and conditions, carved it indelibly into the affairs and lives of people of the county. His call was sudden but he was mustered out with that same determination which characterized him and others in 1861.

JOHN T. LOWE, one of the unheralded strong men of the county, those who knew him, swore by him. Probably no man went about his ways as determined and with less ado about it than did JOHN T. LOWE, sincere, devoted and eager in those things which he thought were fundamental made up a life of service to his family and friends. His passing removes from the county another who helped to mold and shape the destiny of the county in days when a man was a man.

Uncle Dave and Uncle JOHN have gone on, leaving to their children and to the people of this county glorious heritages, bought not with silver, but with lives and characters forged in the furnaces of experience and mellowed in the sunlight of love. Peace to their ashes as their souls wing their flights beyond.

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