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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