LOFTON, THOMAS, soldier of the American Revolution, aged 73, and a resident of Pick- ens County; private, captain and sergeant S. C. Militia; enrolled on February 2, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $340; sums received to date of publication of list, $1,020. — Revolutionary Pension Roll, in vol. xiv, Sen. doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34. He came from Pendleton District, S. C., to Alabama. The young people of his neighborhood knew him as "Grandsire Lofton" and loved him for his kind and genial disposition; some are still living who remember his interesting stories of the Revolution. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. He is buried at Bethesda church near Benevola; no stone marks his last resting place. — Mrs. P. H. Mell, in Alabama Historical Society, Transactions, vol. iv, p. 554
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

LOWE, WILLIAM THOMAS, lawyer, was born September 14, 1860, at Reform, Pickens County; son of Marcus Wilburn and Susan (Shelton) Lowe, of Pickens County, the former a second lieutenant in the C. S. Army ; grandson of John Franklin and Patsy (Munday) Lowe, and of Crispen and Susan Shelton, all of whom lived near Reform, Pickens County. He was prepared in the common schools, and was graduated from Florence normal school in 1884. He studied law in the office of Judge W. P. Chitwood at Moulton, Lawrence County, and began the practice of law at that place in 1887; was a delegate from Lawrence County to the constitutional convention of 1901; represented that county in the "State legislature, 1903; moved to Decatur where he has since practiced law, 1904; and was elected to the State senate from the second district, 1906. He is a Democrat, and a Knight of Pythias. Married: December 8, 1888, in Moulton, to Sarepta, daughter of William D. and Frances L. (Lynch) . Irwin, of Moulton. Residence: Decatur.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

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