When Amelia Lowther was born on 19 September 1813, in Clarksburg, Harrison, Virginia, United States, her father, Jesse D Lowther, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Ragan, was 42. She married Daniel H. Wire on 8 May 1833, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Center Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 27 September 1892, in Franklin Township, Monroe, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Stafford Cemetery, Stafford, Monroe, Ohio, United States.
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English: habitational name from a place in Cumbria, so called from the river on which it stands. The placename is of obscure etymology, perhaps of ancient Welsh origin (compare Lauder ), or from Old Norse lauthr ‘froth, foam’ + á ‘river’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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