This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LOWERY, HUTTO, BUCHANNAN, PARKER, STUDSTILL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ad.2ADI/1333 Message Board Post: Gloria, I have much updated information on the LOWERY families since the Smallwood book was published. With the help of some other LOWERY researchers, we have sorted through the Lowerys of this area, and have identified their lines with the exception of a very few. I haven't found any proof that Caner Lowery came from NC. Census info indicates he was born in GA. Another book on the History of Dodge County stated that Caner Lowery came from Ireland. That is not correct either. From all the census, marriage and cemetery records and lines we've cross referrenced, I tend to agree with Mr. Edsel Joiner. According to his book which I found in the Ben Hill library entitled Family Connections Around Sugar Creek, he suggested that William Elcainer Lowery "Caner" was born in Laurens County and could possibly be a brother to Andrew Lowery who migrated from Jefferson County, GA (our line). The Bible records of William C. Lowery found in a book of Georgia Bible Records lists the same children as Caner's offspring, so that's what began to point to realizing Caner was just a nickname. Sometimes he was listed as Wm E. and other times as Wm C. Mr. Joiner solved that mystery by revealing his whole name. Andrew Lowery, however, was the son of Jeremiah M. Lowery and Mary Ameri Vaughn. Jeremiah was the son of Andrew Lowery and Angelany Loftin of Jefferson County, GA. Andrew was the son of William C. Lowery and Rhoda Pearis Neely. Andrew Lowery married Ida Francis Flanders on 15 Aug 1886 in Laurens County, GA (Book J p 391). They apparently migrated to Oregon. I'll be happy to forward information to any Lowery researchers of the lines of both Caner Lowery and Andrew Lowery.