Josiah Lownes (1799-1870)
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 13 June 2004

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part VI. Biographical Sketches
Hamilton Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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JOSIAH LOWNES, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1799, and was reared to man’s estate near Ellicot’s Mills in the State of Maryland. On the 16th day of May, 1832, he was married in Maryland, to Anna,
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a daughter of Wm. Burdsal. For nearly three years after his marriage he continued to live in Maryland, when he removed to Montgomery Co., O., and settled on a farm near Centerville, on which he lived twenty-four years, after which he settled near Springboro in this county, where he lived until 1869, at which time he bought 140 acres of land on which his widowed wife and two of their children viz: William S. and Miriam, now reside. His death occurred in the 37th anniversary of his marriage, May 16, 1870. He belonged to the Quaker society, in which he war reared and held a birth right. To them were born five children, four of whom are living, viz: Elizabeth A., William S., Miriam, and Rebecca. Susan deceased. Mrs. Lownes was born in Virginia, Nov. 11, 1809. Her father settled in Clinton co., O., in 1835 or 1836, where he lived and died at the advanced age of 80 years. His wife departed this life in Montgomery Co., Md., in 1817. They also belonged to the Quaker society, as does Mrs. Lownes.

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