Lucy was married to John Pittman Loe. The spelling of the name from Loe to Lowe was changed while her husband and sons served in the Civil War." Dorinda Bain
Lucy Lowe "I Want To See You So Bad" Lucy Lowe, wife of John Lowe of Lowndes County, Alabama, gave four sons and a husband to the Confederacy. During their absence she managed the crops, fed and clothed the small children at home and prayed for her husband "nearly every breath she drew."
Lounds County June 1 1862
Dier husband
I know take my pen in hand drop you a few lines to let you no that we are all well as common and I am in about the same helth that I was when you left I hopes these lines may find you the same I receved a leter from you the 29 of May and you sed that you had not got many leters from me yet I have sent you fore leters besides this one George has got home he got hear the end of May he is very lo yet the boys has come home to sea me on a furlow and stade 10 days they started back yestrday to the camp they don't know whare they wil git to from their they are station at arbon (Auburn) above Mongary (Montgomery) John my corn is out know and I have not drawed any thing yet but I hop I wil my crop is nice but pane hes quit and left my crop in bad fix but the neighbors ses they will help us you sed you wanted me to pray for you as for prayers I pray for you all the time I pray for you nearly every breth I draw and I want you to pray for your self I have give the bys 13 dollars and I bought some 9 bushels of corn and that is all that I give him for his work and I have got 20 dolars yet George is very bad yet and he don't know whether he will ever get able to go back the sergeant give him furlo to stay at home til he was able to rejoin his company and he ses for you to try to get him a discharge from the head one for he never will be able to go back agane and I want you to get one if you can George sesy that you can get one any time you want to Sister ses she wants to sea you and kis you Your baby is the pertyest thing you ever saw in your life She can walk by her self and your little gran son is perty as a pink and growes the fastest in the world you must come home and sea all of your babyes and kis them I have got the ry cut hook sent and cut it for nothing Your old mare is gone blind in one eye and something is the matter with one of her fet so she cant hardly walk your hogs and cows is coming on very wel I want you to come home for I want to sea you so bad I don't know what to do I must come to a close by saying I remane your loveing wif until deth You must write to me soon as you get this leter goodby to you
Lucy Lowe to John P. Lowe The original letter is located in the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery, AL, in the William Hall Collection, Military Records Divison. William Hall was a doctor in Lowndes Co, AL. The archives could not give me any additonal information as to how it became included in this collection. From Dorinda Bain
Her parents were:
Daniel McCarthy II 1790 – 1870
Elizabeth Odom 1790 – 1836
Lucy married John on Mar 5, 1841
Their children were"
George Washington Lowe 1842 – 1926
John Thomas Henderson Lowe 1843 – 1915
William Henry Lowe 1844 – 1906
Sarah Ann Lowe 1845 –
Nancy Lowe 1846 –
Daniel Tharington Lowe 1847 –
Fulton Beecher Loe 1849 – 1935
Joshua Mack Lowe 1853 – 1924
Siles Dorah Lowe 1854 – 1916
Stephen P Lowe 1855 – 1936
Ellie Nora Lowe 1857 –
Robina Lowe 1861 –
Lucy Lowe "I Want To See You So Bad" Lucy Lowe, wife of John Lowe of Lowndes County, Alabama, gave four sons and a husband to the Confederacy. During their absence she managed the crops, fed and clothed the small children at home and prayed for her husband "nearly every breath she drew."
Lounds County June 1 1862
Dier husband
I know take my pen in hand drop you a few lines to let you no that we are all well as common and I am in about the same helth that I was when you left I hopes these lines may find you the same I receved a leter from you the 29 of May and you sed that you had not got many leters from me yet I have sent you fore leters besides this one George has got home he got hear the end of May he is very lo yet the boys has come home to sea me on a furlow and stade 10 days they started back yestrday to the camp they don't know whare they wil git to from their they are station at arbon (Auburn) above Mongary (Montgomery) John my corn is out know and I have not drawed any thing yet but I hop I wil my crop is nice but pane hes quit and left my crop in bad fix but the neighbors ses they will help us you sed you wanted me to pray for you as for prayers I pray for you all the time I pray for you nearly every breth I draw and I want you to pray for your self I have give the bys 13 dollars and I bought some 9 bushels of corn and that is all that I give him for his work and I have got 20 dolars yet George is very bad yet and he don't know whether he will ever get able to go back the sergeant give him furlo to stay at home til he was able to rejoin his company and he ses for you to try to get him a discharge from the head one for he never will be able to go back agane and I want you to get one if you can George sesy that you can get one any time you want to Sister ses she wants to sea you and kis you Your baby is the pertyest thing you ever saw in your life She can walk by her self and your little gran son is perty as a pink and growes the fastest in the world you must come home and sea all of your babyes and kis them I have got the ry cut hook sent and cut it for nothing Your old mare is gone blind in one eye and something is the matter with one of her fet so she cant hardly walk your hogs and cows is coming on very wel I want you to come home for I want to sea you so bad I don't know what to do I must come to a close by saying I remane your loveing wif until deth You must write to me soon as you get this leter goodby to you
Lucy Lowe to John P. Lowe The original letter is located in the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery, AL, in the William Hall Collection, Military Records Divison. William Hall was a doctor in Lowndes Co, AL. The archives could not give me any additonal information as to how it became included in this collection. From Dorinda Bain
Her parents were:
Daniel McCarthy II 1790 – 1870
Elizabeth Odom 1790 – 1836
Lucy married John on Mar 5, 1841
Their children were"
George Washington Lowe 1842 – 1926
John Thomas Henderson Lowe 1843 – 1915
William Henry Lowe 1844 – 1906
Sarah Ann Lowe 1845 –
Nancy Lowe 1846 –
Daniel Tharington Lowe 1847 –
Fulton Beecher Loe 1849 – 1935
Joshua Mack Lowe 1853 – 1924
Siles Dorah Lowe 1854 – 1916
Stephen P Lowe 1855 – 1936
Ellie Nora Lowe 1857 –
Robina Lowe 1861 –
Lucy was married to John Pittman Loe. The spelling of the name from Loe to Lowe was changed while her husband and sons served in the Civil War." Dorinda Bain
Lucy Lowe "I Want To See You So Bad" Lucy Lowe, wife of John Lowe of Lowndes County, Alabama, gave four sons and a husband to the Confederacy. During their absence she managed the crops, fed and clothed the small children at home and prayed for her husband "nearly every breath she drew."
Lounds County June 1 1862
Dier husband
I know take my pen in hand drop you a few lines to let you no that we are all well as common and I am in about the same helth that I was when you left I hopes these lines may find you the same I receved a leter from you the 29 of May and you sed that you had not got many leters from me yet I have sent you fore leters besides this one George has got home he got hear the end of May he is very lo yet the boys has come home to sea me on a furlow and stade 10 days they started back yestrday to the camp they don't know whare they wil git to from their they are station at arbon (Auburn) above Mongary (Montgomery) John my corn is out know and I have not drawed any thing yet but I hop I wil my crop is nice but pane hes quit and left my crop in bad fix but the neighbors ses they will help us you sed you wanted me to pray for you as for prayers I pray for you all the time I pray for you nearly every breth I draw and I want you to pray for your self I have give the bys 13 dollars and I bought some 9 bushels of corn and that is all that I give him for his work and I have got 20 dolars yet George is very bad yet and he don't know whether he will ever get able to go back the sergeant give him furlo to stay at home til he was able to rejoin his company and he ses for you to try to get him a discharge from the head one for he never will be able to go back agane and I want you to get one if you can George sesy that you can get one any time you want to Sister ses she wants to sea you and kis you Your baby is the pertyest thing you ever saw in your life She can walk by her self and your little gran son is perty as a pink and growes the fastest in the world you must come home and sea all of your babyes and kis them I have got the ry cut hook sent and cut it for nothing Your old mare is gone blind in one eye and something is the matter with one of her fet so she cant hardly walk your hogs and cows is coming on very wel I want you to come home for I want to sea you so bad I don't know what to do I must come to a close by saying I remane your loveing wif until deth You must write to me soon as you get this leter goodby to you
Lucy Lowe to John P. Lowe The original letter is located in the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery, AL, in the William Hall Collection, Military Records Divison. William Hall was a doctor in Lowndes Co, AL. The archives could not give me any additonal information as to how it became included in this collection. From Dorinda Bain
Her parents were:
Daniel McCarthy II 1790 – 1870
Elizabeth Odom 1790 – 1836
Lucy married John on Mar 5, 1841
Their children were"
George Washington Lowe 1842 – 1926
John Thomas Henderson Lowe 1843 – 1915
William Henry Lowe 1844 – 1906
Sarah Ann Lowe 1845 –
Nancy Lowe 1846 –
Daniel Tharington Lowe 1847 –
Fulton Beecher Loe 1849 – 1935
Joshua Mack Lowe 1853 – 1924
Siles Dorah Lowe 1854 – 1916
Stephen P Lowe 1855 – 1936
Ellie Nora Lowe 1857 –
Robina Lowe 1861 –
Lucy Lowe "I Want To See You So Bad" Lucy Lowe, wife of John Lowe of Lowndes County, Alabama, gave four sons and a husband to the Confederacy. During their absence she managed the crops, fed and clothed the small children at home and prayed for her husband "nearly every breath she drew."
Lounds County June 1 1862
Dier husband
I know take my pen in hand drop you a few lines to let you no that we are all well as common and I am in about the same helth that I was when you left I hopes these lines may find you the same I receved a leter from you the 29 of May and you sed that you had not got many leters from me yet I have sent you fore leters besides this one George has got home he got hear the end of May he is very lo yet the boys has come home to sea me on a furlow and stade 10 days they started back yestrday to the camp they don't know whare they wil git to from their they are station at arbon (Auburn) above Mongary (Montgomery) John my corn is out know and I have not drawed any thing yet but I hop I wil my crop is nice but pane hes quit and left my crop in bad fix but the neighbors ses they will help us you sed you wanted me to pray for you as for prayers I pray for you all the time I pray for you nearly every breth I draw and I want you to pray for your self I have give the bys 13 dollars and I bought some 9 bushels of corn and that is all that I give him for his work and I have got 20 dolars yet George is very bad yet and he don't know whether he will ever get able to go back the sergeant give him furlo to stay at home til he was able to rejoin his company and he ses for you to try to get him a discharge from the head one for he never will be able to go back agane and I want you to get one if you can George sesy that you can get one any time you want to Sister ses she wants to sea you and kis you Your baby is the pertyest thing you ever saw in your life She can walk by her self and your little gran son is perty as a pink and growes the fastest in the world you must come home and sea all of your babyes and kis them I have got the ry cut hook sent and cut it for nothing Your old mare is gone blind in one eye and something is the matter with one of her fet so she cant hardly walk your hogs and cows is coming on very wel I want you to come home for I want to sea you so bad I don't know what to do I must come to a close by saying I remane your loveing wif until deth You must write to me soon as you get this leter goodby to you
Lucy Lowe to John P. Lowe The original letter is located in the Alabama State Archives in Montgomery, AL, in the William Hall Collection, Military Records Divison. William Hall was a doctor in Lowndes Co, AL. The archives could not give me any additonal information as to how it became included in this collection. From Dorinda Bain
Her parents were:
Daniel McCarthy II 1790 – 1870
Elizabeth Odom 1790 – 1836
Lucy married John on Mar 5, 1841
Their children were"
George Washington Lowe 1842 – 1926
John Thomas Henderson Lowe 1843 – 1915
William Henry Lowe 1844 – 1906
Sarah Ann Lowe 1845 –
Nancy Lowe 1846 –
Daniel Tharington Lowe 1847 –
Fulton Beecher Loe 1849 – 1935
Joshua Mack Lowe 1853 – 1924
Siles Dorah Lowe 1854 – 1916
Stephen P Lowe 1855 – 1936
Ellie Nora Lowe 1857 –
Robina Lowe 1861 –
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