From "Holmes County, OH to 1985", page 82
         
226 LOWE FAMILY

Henry Lowe I was born and grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania.  He married Mary
Fritschman and they lived on a farm of 350 acres near New Stanton, Hempfield 
Township, after the Revolutionary War.  Then they moved to another farm which 
was one mile from Ruffsdale in East Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, 
in Pennsylvania.

Here my great-great grandfather, Henry Lowe II, was born in 1788.  He had seven
brothers and one sister: Mary, Adam, Conrad, Jacob, George, John, Christian, 
and David [plus Catherine and Daniel].

Henry II married Sarah Weydant, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Weydant, born in 1799,
in West Moreland [sic] County, Pennsylvania.  He and his wife and one son, John,
arrived in what is now Holmes County, Ohio in 1816.  They came in a one-horse 
spring wagon by way of Zanesville, Ohio, to Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
in 1816.  From there they traveled over rugged terrain, which later became the 
old "Stage Coach Road", leading through Walnut Creek Township, to Kolbs Church, 
past the Reverend Daniel Cranz farm and on to Mt. Eaton and Wooster, Wayne County,
Ohio.

Henry and his brother Adam bought 640 acres on a section in range 34.  He helped
"blaze" this trail and had built a half-faced log cabin home on 160 acres before
bringing his family here to live.  They brought along two hogs and a calf.  
A wolf had soon eaten one hog.

At night, the wolves would prowl around their cabin home and they would build 
a fire to keep them farther away from their homestead.  Bears, deer, wild turkeys,
and wolves were still here.  Also, a few Indians would pass by.  They had no locks
on their log cabin door, only a cross-bar.  The deer were very tame and drank 
at the spring.  The Sugar Creek flowed nearby through much of their farm.

Henry II and Sarah were blessed with ten children: Daniel (born in Pennsylvania);
John (born in 1813 in Pennsylvania); Margaret (1820); Henry (1823-1901); 
David (1824-1899); Isaiah (1828); infant son (1830); Cornlius I (1833-1907); 
Henderson (1837-1849); and Sarah (1840-1913).

My great-great grandfather became a very prosperous farmer.  One by one their 
children married and left home.  In 1864, my great grandfather Cornelius I 
married Catherine Bixler (1843-1939).  She was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

His father asked the young couple if they would come and live on the home place
and farm for one year, to which they agreed.  Although Cornelius' father 
was only seventy-six years old, he realized his farming days were ended.

When the autumn harvest was over, my great-great grandfather had decided
to go on a trip to Marion County, to pay the taxes on 400 acres of land,
which he had bought in Green Camp Township, Marion County, Ohio.

When he took the train at Apple Creek, he rode his favorite horse named Lion.
He wrote a note, saying he had arrived safely and that if anyone would meet 
the horse on the road, to let him go home.  He fastened the note to the saddle,
tied up the stirrups and Lion soon returned home.  The family then knew he had
started on his train journey to Marion, Ohio.

We think that when he arrived there the Courthouse was closed.  He had told his
family he would write, but when several weeks passed and they received no word
from him, they became very troubled, and sent a letter to the Marion County 
Courthouse, asking if the taxes on Henry Lowe's land had been paid.  
They received an answer saying the taxes had not been paid.

A notice of his disappearance was put in the newspapers without any results.
My great-great grandmother lived nine more years and died in 1873.  
She grieved all these years, but no trace of her husband could be found.

In the meantime, Cornelius Sr. and Catherine had gone to their own farm, one mile
north of Winesburg.  There, my great grandparents were blessed with six children:
Mary Jane (1865-1950); Emma Francis (1867-1884); John Henry (1870-1890); Nancy Lucinda
(1873-1954); Benjamin Charles (1877-1878); and Cornelius Sylvester (1880-1969). 

The farm to which my great grandparents came in 1864, was in the Lowe family 
104 years.  It consisted of 250 acres, Lot 3.  He was a farmer and also a grain 
and livestock fancier.  There was a mill dam by the Sugar Creek, and for many years
he operated a saw mill, and also ground grain into flour for the settlers in the valley.

My grandmother, Nancy Lucinda, married Edwin Feigert in 1893, spending their 
lifetime in Winesburg, Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio.  They were the parents
of six children: Orals (1894); Clinton (1898-1959); Ira (1900-1961); Gladys (1905);
Evelyn (1907-1977); Eleanor (1909), who became my mother.

She married Edward Zepp in 1928 and after living in Massillon, Ohio, for twenty
years, I came to live with them and my older sister, Anne in Winesburg, Ohio.  
I was 10 years old, and have lived here since.

I graduated from Beach City High School in 1956.  I married Otmar L. Mischler 
and we have two daughters and one son: [deleted for privacy].

Submitted by Nancy Mischler