Friday, October 21, 2011

A Brief Description from a Lowrey Relative

I discovered this note online from a family member and wanted to post it for posterity: "....David Crocket "Buck" Lowrey was sent to Cleburne, TX to live with his uncle and help on the farm. He married Florence Wilmeth, daughter of Charles T. Wilmeth and Geneore Blanton. Since farming was not his forte he then moved the family to Lee's Ferry, AZ to run a trading post as a life promise to a personal friend who had done the same but was struck ill and could not continue. Big Daddy of "Buck" as he was called by the locals ran the trading post and built Vermillion Cliffs Lodge, later known as Marble Canyon Lodge. He was also sheriff of Coconino County while running the lodge since he had good relations with the Navaho peoples. He lost the lodge and service station in the mid to late 1930s and the family moved to Safford, AZ where he lived until his death."

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