At the age of 67 he married Madge Furr Garrett March 21 1956. (WVVS)
Veteran: The Weston Democrat, 26 Apr 2000
Contributors Ralph and Hilda Sayre
Following are excerpts from "Goldenseal" Vol 19, No. 2 Summer 1993 article "104 and Counting: Bill Lowther of Wildcat, West Virginia by Joy Gregorie Gilchrist, Photographs by Michael Keller.
P.F.C. US Army W.W.I.
"Like his pioneer ancestor (Col. William Lowther), Uncle Bill served in defense of his country. He was in Company D, 320th Infantry, 80th Division, as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I....His military service is important to him. He is a founding father of the Weston Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and is Lewis County's lone survivor of the "Great War."
Construction work:
"I worked at a little bit of everything," Uncle Bill says. "Before I went to war, I drove some livestock, timbered some and did construction work." Of his construction jobs, he's especially proud of the work he did in 1909 on Elijah Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal church at Wildcat, and of Duffy School, which he built with his brother, Jesse, a few years later."
Church attendance:
"He went to church not only at Elijah Chapel but "everywhere"--Green Hill, Pleasant Hill, Hackers Valley and Falls Mills--and sometime two or three of them in one day."
At the age of 67 he married Madge Furr Garrett March 21 1956. (WVVS)
Veteran: The Weston Democrat, 26 Apr 2000
Contributors Ralph and Hilda Sayre
Following are excerpts from "Goldenseal" Vol 19, No. 2 Summer 1993 article "104 and Counting: Bill Lowther of Wildcat, West Virginia by Joy Gregorie Gilchrist, Photographs by Michael Keller.
P.F.C. US Army W.W.I.
"Like his pioneer ancestor (Col. William Lowther), Uncle Bill served in defense of his country. He was in Company D, 320th Infantry, 80th Division, as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I....His military service is important to him. He is a founding father of the Weston Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and is Lewis County's lone survivor of the "Great War."
Construction work:
"I worked at a little bit of everything," Uncle Bill says. "Before I went to war, I drove some livestock, timbered some and did construction work." Of his construction jobs, he's especially proud of the work he did in 1909 on Elijah Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal church at Wildcat, and of Duffy School, which he built with his brother, Jesse, a few years later."
Church attendance:
"He went to church not only at Elijah Chapel but "everywhere"--Green Hill, Pleasant Hill, Hackers Valley and Falls Mills--and sometime two or three of them in one day."
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