CATAWBA COUNTY BLACK GENEALOGY
Martha Lowrance Smith
This is my great
great grandmother, Martha Lowrance Smith,
23 February1855 - 02 September 1943. She is the daughter of
Peter and Susan Fry Lowrance. Martha married brothers
(1).
Alfred Smith and (2). Franklin Smith. Martha and Alfred had the
following children:
Nora, Vander, Ola, Beulah, Mary, Alice, Carrie, Rose, Arthur.
Martha and Franklin had the following children:
John, and Robert.
Many of her descendants participate in the Alexander
Smith
(father of Alfred and Franklin) Family Reunion held in Hickory,
NC
every two years. Martha has several hundred descendants
in the Catawba County today.
Carolyn Corpening Collins Rowe (c) 2003
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