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Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
Pine Bluff, Arkansas -- Wednesday January 31, 1906
(Headline News / the #1 news story on the front page)
N.C. LOWRY IS DEAD
Was Pine Bluff’s Oldest Citizen and Passes Away After a Long and Useful Life in This City.
One by one the old landmarks of Pine Bluff are disappearing before the scythe of time as the Grim Reaper mows the golden grain of life, and one by one their memories are perpetuated in the marble slab which alone bears testimony to their lives. And yet this is not true, after all; for every life leaves the immaterial impress of its influence upon society, when spent for the public good, one is prone to greater retrospection of the life that is spent.
Such a life was that of N. C. Lowry, whose soul departed from its aged and afflicted body Wednesday morning at 4:30 o’clock.
Mr. Lowry was a native of Tennessee, where he was born in 1832; but left that state with his parents when quite young, the family consisting of four sons and two daughters, located in Arkansas in 1840. After remaining with his father until the latter’s death. Mr. Lowry learned the blacksmith trade. In 1844 he erected a shop of his own, and in this continued for about eight years. Then he sold out and secured a position as clerk in a store, which he held until the beginning of the war, when he entered the Confederate Service as mechanic, serving until the war’s close. After the war, he returned to his former business of clerking, which he continued up to the winter of 1888 or 1889.
When Mr. Lowry located in Pine Bluff in 1844 it was but a small village, and the forests near were full of bear and deer.
In 1848 he was married to Miss Christiana Smart, daughter of Mr. Josephus Smart. To this union were born five sons, Douglas, Archie, Jehu, Charles and Henry Neal. All of these survive him.
The deceased was a Royal Arch Mason, and had served in several official capacities in the Blue lodge and the Chapter.
Mr. Lowry bore the distinction of being, at the time of his death, the oldest citizen of Pine Bluff.
The funeral will take place from Lakeside Methodist Church at 10 o’clock Thursday morning, Rev. W.C. Watson and Dr. Browning officiating. Undertaker Ralph Robinson has charge of the funeral arrangements.
The deceased was for a number of years one of the city’s leading business men, a member of the firm of Lowry and Smart, grocers.
The Masons will participate in the obsequies, and a meeting of that body has been called for 9 o’clock tomorrow morning.
Funeral of N.C. Lowry
The funeral of the late N.C. Lowry occurred Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, taking place from the Lakeside Methodist Church. Rev. W.C. Watson, assisted by Dr. Browning, officiated in the solemn ritual services of the Methodist church, and after these the body was interred with Masonic honors at Bellwood. The pall bearers were Messrs. Guy Leflar, J.B. Talbot, W.D. Jones, W.B. Sorrells, Edgar Brewster, G.S. McLintock. The honorary pall bearers were Dr. Junius Jordan, Capt. N.T. Roberts, Messurs. John McCain, W.Z. Tankersly, W. T. Woodbridge, R.H.M. Mills.
(Transcribed by Bobby Lamb on September 17, 2007, for my grandsons Joseph Christopher Lowry and Nicholas Gunner Lamb Lowry.)
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