I am posting this message to the following groups: Lowry, Randolph County (Missouri) and Westmoreland County (PA). I am searching for my GG-Granduncle, who was born approximately 1854 as Valentine Giese Lowry in Westmoreland County. His parents were Henry and Catherine Lowry of Ligonier, in Westmoreland County, PA. He is identified in the 1860 and 1870 censuses of Ligonier. 1870 is the last time I see him. Henry and Catherine moved to Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas in 1874 and several of their children moved to Missouri and Kansas at about the same time. One daughter, Emma Hays, remained in Pennsylvania living in Westmoreland County and later in Indiana County (PA). Henry died in 1881 and Catherine died in 1886. Henry's estate papers, and Catherine's newspaper obituary, specify that 7 of their children have survived them. Henry's probate record names them: Sons: Benjamin, Daniel, and Valentine; Daughters: Emma Hays (Westmoreland County 1870, Indiana County 1880); Margaret Durkee (Randolph County, Missouri 1880); Alice Rice (Randolph County, Missouri 1880), and Minnie Lowry (still at home when her father passed, later married to James Shafer, resided in Wichita, Kansas 1883-1886). Our family's traditional listing of the children of Henry and Catherine insists that they had another son, Tom G. Lowry, who married a woman named Elizabeth. They lived in Randolph County, Missouri. This tradition is several decades old, possibly 75-85 years or longer. Tom G. Lowry, wife Elizabeth, their son Harry, and a woman I presume to be either a daughter, or a daughter-in-law, Beulah Ione, are buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Randolph County. Tom was born, according to his stone, 1856. I am wondering whether it is possible that Valentine and "Tom" are the same individual. I have thoroughly searched the 1880, 1900, and 1910 census for Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, and am now searching the records for Indiana County. I have already searched Randolph County for 1880, 1900, and 1910. No one named Valentine Giese Lowry. Even with the date on the tombstone not matching with what I know about Valentine's birth, it seems possible to me that Tom "could" be my Valentine. Am I a complete idiot to consider this? How could I pursue it? Billy Walker GGG-Grandson of Henry and Catherine Lowry Milton, KS