Edwina Cornelia Lowery

Edwina Cornelia Lowery
Edwina Cornelia Lowery, born on September 12, 1852, in New York, NY, was the first of four children from the marriage of William Benjamin Lowery and Emily Jane (Martin) (Curran) Lowery.1

The 1860 U.S. Census shows Edwina, now age 8, living with her family in New York City, probably in the Yorkville area.2

When the census was taken in December of 1870, we find Edwina, now 18 years of age, living in Manhattan at the home of her parents.3 The extended family consisted of the Lowery family, the Linen household, a Curran child from Emily Jane's first marriage, Emily's mother Elizabeth Martin, and two boarders, including Edwina C. Lowery's future husband, Hermann Otto.

Edwina Cornelia Lowery married Carl Hermann Otto in New York, New York, on July 1, 1873. The couple had no children.

In June of 1880 when the U.S. Census was taken, Edwina C. (Lowery) Otto and Herman Otto (Carl Hermann Otto) were still living with Edwina's parents.4 By now, William Benjamin Lowery had purchased a brownstone house located at 409 East 120th Street in New York, and it was occupied by William B. Lowery, Emily J. Lowery (listed as "Emma J. Lowery"), Edwina Otto, and Herman Otto.

Edwina died quite young at the age of 29 years, 5 months and 20 days, on March 4, 1882.5 She is interred in the Lowery family plot at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.




1 Birth recorded in the family Bible. Emily Jane Martin had been married to William Curran and had three children by that marriage.
2 1860 U.S. Census, M653, Roll 815, Page 5, 3 Ward 19, District 3, New York, NY. Note: the family surname is incorrectly written as "Lourie" in this census, thus making it somewhat difficult to find in the census indices. The Yorkville area of the residence is based on the "Yorkville" notation in the section on the census page that says "Post Office."
3 1870 U.S. Census, M593, Roll 1035, Page 320, Ward 16, District 11 (2nd Enumeration), New York, NY
4 1880 U.S. Census, T9 Roll 898 Page 664 (12B) Sup Dist 1 ED 644 New York, NY, and for Herman Otto, see 1880 U.S. Census, T9 Roll 898 Page 663 (10C) Sup Dist 1 ED 644 New York, NY. Note: The arrangement of the census pages appears to be out of order (perhaps at the time the enumeration occurred) and as a result the indexing on Ancestry.com incorrectly lists Herman Otto on the page related to the first citation (the Lowery family and Herman's wife, Edwina Otto). However, Herman Otto is indexed again, this time correctly, and the second citation should be used when looking for his record. Also, although his name appears to actually have been "Hermann," the census forms spell it as "Herman." Edwina Otto can also be difficult to find because she is sometimes indexed as "Edwinia" for the 1880 census. The census page image shows that her name was written correctly as Edwina, but because the dot associated with the letter "i" is far over to the right, the indexing appears to have added a second letter "i," resulting in the incorrect Edwinia spelling.
4 Death recorded in the family Bible.
Edwina Cornelia Lowery

c 1882

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