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memory by wearing mourning for thirty days. See *' Life and Times of William Lowndes, of South Carolina, 1782-1822 "(1900), by his grand- daughter, Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel. He died at sea, Oct. 27, 1822.

LOWREY, B. Q. (no Christian name), educa- tor, was born in Kossuth, Miss., May 25, 1862; son of Gen. Mark Perrin and Sara (Holmes) Lowrey, and grandson of Adam and Marguerite (Doss) Lowrey. He was prepared for college by Capt. T. B. Winston at Blue Mountain academy, and was graduated at Mississippi college, B.S., 1887, A.M., 1890. He also took a si)ecial course in English at Tulane university. New Orleans, 1888- 89. He was married July 25, 1889, to Marylee Booth. He was professor of English at Blue Mountain college, 1890-98, and on the resignation of his brother, the Rev. Dr. W. T. Lowrey, in 1898, he became president of Blue Mountain col- lege, Tippah county. Miss.

LOWREY, Mark Perrin, soldier, was born in McNairy county, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1828; son of Adam and Marguerite (Doss) Lowrey. Adam Lowrey was of Scotch descent and came from the north of Ireland to East Tennessee, early in the

nineteenth century settling at Lowrey Ferry in East Tennes- see. Mark was a sol- dier in the war with Mexico, 1847; became a Baptist minister, and served churches in Farmington, Cor- inth, Rienzi, Ripley, and other north Mis- sissippi points, 1852- 61. He married Sarah Holme and resided at Meadow Creek, Miss. In 1861 he vvas captain in and then oolonel of the 2d Mississippi regiment, enlisted for sixty days, his regiment going direct to Bowling Green, Ky., where they were dis- banded. He then raised the 82d Mississippi regiment for the war and was commissioned its colonel. He took part in Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and was severely wounded at Perry- ville, Oct. 8, 1862, where he led his regiment in Wood's brigade. Buckner's division. At Chick- araauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863, he commanded Gen. S. A. M. Wood's brigade, Cleburne's division. Hill's corps, as senior colonel in command of the 82d and 45th Mississippi; and after the battle, when General Wood resigned, he was given com- mand of the brigade in recognition of his gallantry. He covered the retreat of the Con- federate army into Georgia notably at Ringgold

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Gap, Nov. 27, 1863, and when Cleburne succeeded to the command of Hardee's corps he became commander of Cleburne's division. At the battle of Franklin, Nov. 30.1864, when General Cleburne was killed. General Lowrey succeeded to the command of the division, and soon after, when Gen. John C. Brown was severely wounded, he was transferred to the command of Cheatham's divi- sion, which he led in the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864, after the battle covering the retreat of the Confederate army. During his service in the army. General Lowrey preached regularly to the soldiers, and on one occasion baptized up- wards of forty soldiers, going into the water in his major-general's uniform. At the close of the war he resumed his missionary duties, and re- organized the Baptist churches throughout the state. He edited the Mississippi department in the Baptist, Memphis, and contributed to the Christian Index. He founded the Blue Mountain Female college in 1873, and was its president, 1873-85, when he was succeeded by his son, William Tyndale Lowrey (q. v.). He refused political office when urged to stand as candidate for U.S. senator, for representative in congress and for governor of the state. While president of the college, he was active pastor of the churches at Blue Mountain and at Ripley; for ten years was president of the Mississippi Baptist state conven- tion, and was a trustee of the University of Mississippi, 1872-76. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Missi.ssippi college. He died suddenly, surrounded by a company of his pupils, in the waiting-room of the railroad depot, Middleton, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1885.

LOWREY, William Tyndale, educator, was born at Meadow Creek, Miss., March 3, 1858; son of Gen. Mark Perrin and Sara (Holmes) Lowrey, and grandson of Adam and Marguerite (Doss) Low- rey. He prepared for college at the Blue Mountain academy; was graduated from Mississippi college, A.B., 1881, A.M., 1884; attended the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, 1881-85, and was president of the Female college, Blue Mountain, Miss., 1885-98. He was married, Sept. 1, 1886, to Theodosia, daughter of the Rev. James Bryant Searcy, D.D., of Biloxi. Miss. In July, 1898, he accepted the presidency of Mississippi college, Clinton, Miss.

LOWRIE, John Cameron, clergyman, was born in Butler, Pa., Dec. 10, 1808; son of Senator Walter and Amelia (McPherrin) Lowrie, and grandson of John and Catherine (Cameron) Lowrie, who were born and married in Scotland, and came to America with their son, Walter, in 1792. John C. Lowrie was graduated from Jeffer- son college. Canonsburg, Pa., in 1829; studied at the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1829-32; was licensed to preach by the pres-