HENRY ("Harry") H. LOWE (1785-1854) was born in Jones County, Georgia, on 4 November

1785.132 He became a wealthy Harris County planter. On 1 May 1821 Lowe was commissioned major of
 the 95th (Jones County) Battalion on 1 May 1821, and he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 
Jones County on 15 October 1822. On 21 May 1827 he was commissioned justice of the peace in 
Muscogee County, but soon removed to Harris County. Lowe was recommissioned justice of the peace
 for Harris County on 18 December 1827. He represented Harris County in the Georgia House of
 Representatives, 1829, 1832. Colonel Henry H. Lowe was a prominent figure in the celebration of
 the Fourth of July in 1832 in Harris County. The legislature elected COL Lowe brigadier general
 commanding the 1st  Brigade of the 10th Division, he being commissioned on 8 December 1832. Lowe
 resigned his commission as brigadier general in 1848. In August of that year he represented
 Harris County in the mass Democratic meeting held at Stone Mountain.133 General Lowe
 died on 8 July 1854. He was buried in the cemetery just east of Waverly Hall, Georgia, on
 Georgia Highway 208.134 His wife was the former Miss Mariah A. Tarver, born on 30
 September 1807, married on 26 August 1821, and died on 27 November 1852. She was buried next to
 her husband.

History of the Georgia Militia 1783-1861 

Volume 1, Campaigns and Generals, page 319

132also given as 1785

133UR,22 August 1848

134Description of the celebration of the fourth of July 1832 in Harris County in the Columbus Enquirer 28 July 1832

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