Figure of the Week

At the April, 1870 term of the Stafford County, Virginia Court, “Thomas Lowry, late Constable having inadvertently failed to give the bond required by law to have been given at the last term of this Court–It is recomended [sic] that the Governor of this State appoint him Constable there being no Constable at this term in the County.”  During the War Between the States, Thomas was a Unionist.  He went to Maryland several times to avoid the conscription officers.  While in Stafford, he lived on a rented farm about a mile from Brooke’s Station.  Thomas Lowry submitted a request to the Southern Claims Commission to be reimbursed for $484 worth of items removed from his farm by Union troops.  He was allowed only $143.  His brother, Enoch Lowry (c.1829-1910), served in the Confederate forces and settled in Spotsylvania County, Virginia after the war.