Dan’s paternal grandfather, William Lowe, was an English immigrant to the United States just before the Civil War. He served as a Union soldier in Missouri where he met and married Nannie Farley. Nannie is descended from some of the early Virginia colonists. Through Nannie we are descended from the Normans and Vikings who conquered England in 1066. Follow this link to learn about the Virginia colonists and this link to see how we are descended from British and Scottish royalty. Her great-grandfather John Farley was a Revolutionary War patriot and his descendants moved west into Tennessee after the Revolutionary War on land granted for service in the war.
Dan’s Mother was descended from English and Scottish converts to Mormonism who came to Utah in the early pioneer days as a part of the gathering of The Saints. Follow this link to read about our Utah pioneers on te Lowe side of the family.
WILLIAM LOWE
William was born in Stockport, Lancashire, England in 1823. family records (available at familysearch.org) state that William was baptized into the Mormon church in 1841 and married Mary Ann Allen in England in 1842 at the age of 19. William emigrated to America in 1842. It’s not clear what happened to Mary Ann, or if she made the journey to America. It seems that Mary Ann died sometime before before 1860 because in the US Census that year William is living in St. Louis Missouri with a family named Peebles.
William served in a Missouri State Militia Regiment of the Union Army from 1861 to the end of the war in 1865. His grave marker lists him as a First Sergeant in Company G of the 5th Regiment Missouri State Militia. You can search online for a summary of the action the regiment saw in the war.
He married Nannie Marin Farley 08 December, 1863 in Texas County, Missouri. William and Nannie’s first child, Fidela, was born in Rollo, Missouri, in 1865. The family is enumerated in St. Louis in the 1870 census. Their second and third children were born in St. Louis in 1869 and 1871. Both of the boys died in infancy.
Nannie’s obituary says that she was converted to Mormonism and that William, Nannie, and Fidela moved to Ogden, Utah in 1874. Notes from other descendants that can be found at familysearch.org say that they arrived in Ogden in 1871. Their last child, and our ancestor, Zedok was born in Utah in 1876. William is listed in the 1880 census as a carpenter.
The 1890, 92, and 95 Ogden City directories show William living at 884 S. 23rd St. (just a few blocks from Daniel and Elaine Lowe’s house at 1143 Capital St.). He is listed as a Notary Public working for the Ogden Bench Canal and Water Company.
William Lowe is listed as one of twelve early Ogden photographers in the book “A History of Weber County” ISBN: 0-913738-14-X, p.90
William is listed in the 1884 Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities Utah Gazetteer as a photographer, notary public, real estate agent at the corner of 3rd and east…
Obituary: The Salt Lake Tribune, January 5, 1904, Page 3
William Lowe died at his residence, 884 Twenty-third street, at 8 o’clock last evening, of general debility. He was one of the old-time residents of Ogden, coming here thirty years ago from Missouri. He leaves two children, Zadoe, for many years connected with the Ogden Fire department, and Mrs. Fidella Chapple.
The funeral of William Lowe was held yesterday afternoon from the family residence on Twenty-third street and Monroe avenue. The services were conducted by the G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic – a national association of civil war veterans)
William died in 1904 and is buried in the Ogden City Cemetery. Nannie lived in the house on 23rd Street until her death in 1917.
Nannie Martin Farley
Nannie Martin Farley is a descendant of several very interesting people. They include several prominent Virginia colonists and plantation owners who descended from the kings of Scotland back to Robert the Bruce, the first king of United Scotland and beyond him to Duncan, of Macbeth fame, and then to the Norman conquerors. Another line of our ancestry stretches from Nannie through 800 years of English nobility to Rollo the Viking, conqueror of Normandy in the 800s, and beyond him to the Kings of Sweden to the year 200 A.D. for a total of 66 generations.
Nannie was born near Nashville TN in 1836. Our Fike ancestors who lived north of Nashville had moved on to Illinois by this time. Sometime before 1860, when she was 24, the family broke up with her father moving to Arkansas and Nannie and her mother to Houston, Texas County, Missouri; probably with her uncle Nathaniel Kerr Rodgers. Nannie’s Mother lived out her life and died in Texas County, Missouri in 1860.
Nannie married William Lowe in Missouri in 1863 three years after her mother died. They relocated to Rolla, St. Louis, and then in 1874 to Ogden UT.
Her father, John Farley, is listed in the 1880 census, in Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas. He died there in 1893.
Obituary: “Nannie Martin Lowe, a pioneer of Ogden, died yesterday afternoon at the family residence, 884 Twenty-third street, of pneumonia. She was born in Nashville, Tenn on Feb. 23. 1836. the daughter of John and Sarah Rodgers Farlelgh. When a young woman, she joined the Mormon church and in 1872 came to Utah, where she married William Lowe (married in Missouri). Her husband died thirteen years ago and she is survived by the following children: Mrs. Fedelia Trorlicht and Zadok A. Lowe, of Ogden. Twelve grandchildren and seven great grand children also survive. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 1 p. m., in the Sixth ward chapel and interment will be in the city cemetery. The body may be viewed at the residence this evening and tomorrow until the funeral hour.”
Zedoc and Mary Agnes Hogg Lowe
Zedock Andrew Lowe, son of William Andrew Lowe and Nannie Martin Farley was born 11 Mar 1876 in Ogden, Utah. He married Mary Agnes Hogg, daughter of Charles Hogg Jr. and Margaret Mc Lean on 11 Aug 1905 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mary Agnes was born 11 Jul 1878 in West Weber, Utah.
In the 1895 Ogden city directory Zedok is listed as Zeddie A. Lowe living with his father William at 884 23rd St. in Ogden. He married Lenora Irwin in 1898. They had one son, William Irwin Lowe, born in 1898. They are enumerated as a family in the 1900 census.
William Irwin is later mentioned in the Ogden City Directory in 1948 married to Rosezella, living at 2270 Eccles Ave., and working as a projectionist at the Paramount Theater in Ogden. He later moved to California and died there in 1961.
In 1905 Zedok married Mary Agnes Hogg (our ancestor). The 1907 directory shows them living at 884 23rd St. with Zedok working as a carpenter. Zedoc also served as an Ogden city firefighter. In 1913 they are living at 2261 Van Buren and he is still employed as a carpenter. His granddaughter remembers hearing a family story about Zedok replacing a roof on a local church building. By 1919 they had moved to 1554 Robinson Ave. Zedok died in 1922. His obituary in the 9/4/1922 Ogden Standard Examiner lists his occupation as a recording secretary for the Ogden Carpenters Union. After Zedok’s death Mary moved to 1040 Rushton St. and worked as a seamstress. She was at this address in the 1930s and 1940s.
Patricia Ann Lowe Fike shares this about her Grandmother Mary Agnes Hogg Lowe:
“I remember very little about my Grandmother Lowe. Grandmother lived on a short street named Rushton either between Van Buren and Jackson or Jackson and Monroe. It was a fairly large home in Ogden Utah. About the same size as the one where I was raised (1143 Capitol St.).
About once a month Mom and I would walk over to visit grandma. My dad worked nights and my mother did not drive a car, so we walked everywhere or caught a bus. When we arrived I remember going to the back of the house and playing the Victrola that had to be wound up. The records were very thick. I do not remember talking to grandma, but mom always did and she also only said good things about grandma. Grandma was very poor and raised the kids by herself because grandpa had died. There were seven children (Isabel, Kate, Margaret, Lucille, Charles, Dan, Russell).
When I was very young Grandma had a stroke and spent a lot of time in the hospital. When she came home she could not talk very much and never really recovered. She went to live with Isabel and then Margaret. Finally she had to stay in a nursing home. We visited her about once a week.”
Zedoc died on 03 Sep 1922 in Ogden. Mary Agnes died on 30 Aug 1952 in Ogden. They are buried in the West Weber Cemetery.
Charles and Margaret McLean Hogg, Jr.
Charles Hogg, Jr. was born March 1, 1857 to Charles Hogg and Ann Stanger. He was born in Centervi1le, Davis County, Utah. He was baptized in 1865 in Davis County, Utah, by Charles Hogg, Sr. into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and confirmed by Nathan Porter. He joined the Sunday School of West Weber Ward, North Weber Stake. He was married to Margaret McLean in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1876. He and Margaret McLean had twelve children.
From a family biography: “He was a farmer and a hard worker all or his life. He didn’t always attend church but he instilled into the eleven children who lived that they should always keep busy. He taught all of them to work on the farm. He didn’t send them out to work but went with them and taught them just how things were done. He taught them to be honest. Everyone who knew Charlie Hogg said “there was never a more honest man lived on the earth”. He did not accumulate very much of the world’s wealth but he had many friends. He lived almost all of his life at West Weber, Utah.
Margaret McLean Hogg was born 23 October 1859 to Daniel McLean and Elizabeth Smith. She was born in the state of Illinois to pioneer parents who were, at the time of’ her birth, crossing the plains to come to Utah.
She married Charles Hogg in the endowment house in 1876. She was baptized in l868 in West Weber, Utah by Nathan Hawks into the Church of’ Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and confirmed in 1868 by William McFarland. She joined the Relief Society of West Weber Ward. She was called to the office of teacher 25 April 1914. She was the mother of twelve children.
Her own family arrived in West Weber, Utah, before Margaret was three years old. They lived in a dirt house, or dugout as it was commonly called, and had to sweep the dirt floors with sage brushes. She was a very faithful church worker.
At the beginning of’ her married life, she and her husband, Charles Hogg lived in a one room house and the only means they had at the time of marriage was 50 cents and one horse. All of her childhood life she went barefoot except when her feet were in danger of’ freezing; then home-made shoes were provided. During her early life when entertainment, such as a dance, was at hand and the distance too far to walk, one or two people would ride bareback to the dance on a horse.
In her later years they built onto their home until they had five rooms. She was very proud of her home because she had lived in other dwellings which could hardly be called houses, in the modern day sense of the word. She was a flower lover arid grew beautiful flowers in the yard around her home.
Their livelihood was made off the farm. They worked very hard. One of the ways by which they made a little money was that they had to milk cows which had to be milked night and morning. They had a hand separator which separated the cream from the milk and from the cream butter was churned in a big wooden dasher churn. Then after more money was available a barrel churn was purchased which would hold fifteen gallons of cream.”
Margaret died 6 June 1929, just twelve days before her husband, Charles Hogg, passed away on 18 June 1929. They are both buried in the West Weber cemetery.
Daniel McLean Lowe
Daniel McLean Lowe was born on 23 Apr 1908 in West Weber, Utah. In 1920 Dan was a 12 year old newspaper carrier living with his parents and siblings. His father died in 1922 when he was 14 years old. In 1930 he was living with his mother at 1040 Rushton St. in Ogden. He married Elaine Peterson on 04 Sep 1933 in Ogden. They lived at 461 27th St. Apartment 55. Elaine was a beauty operator at the Betty Kay Beauty Shop. In 1939 they were living at 1833 Kiesel Ave. on the north bank of the Ogden River. They adopted my mom Patricia Ann Lowe that year. Daniel was working for the Union Pacific railroad in the mail room at the Ogden depot. By 1941 Daniel was working as a photo finisher but he soon returned to the Union Pacific baggage handling job where he worked until his retirement in 1968. They bought the house at 1143 Capitol St. by 1942, and lived in that house the remainder of their lives.
Our family spent every summer vacation during my childhood with Nana and Papa at that house. It was a 2 bedroom 1 bath craftsman style house with a big front porch and a closed in rear porch where Papa slept. There was a half dug out basement with an old coal burning convection furnace that had been converted to gas. Papa dug out part of the front section of the basement and lined the dirt walls with shelving to serve as a root cellar. Nana canned and preserved food they grew in the yard and the fish that Papa caught. Nana grew tomatoes behind their garage and they had an apricot tree in the back yard. Papa dug worms in the back yard to use as bait when he fished the mountain streams.
Papa was a life long hunter and fisherman. He hunted game and waterfowl and enjoyed fishing the lakes and streams in the mountain valleys near Ogden. In 1960 they bought a Ford F-100 pickup truck with a camper that they used on their fishing trips in the 1960s. They had a 1940 four door black dodge sedan and a red Willys Jeep with a home made plywood top that Papa drove to work at the Union Depot train station.
Dan and Elaine were devoted parents and grandparents. They gave my mom a wonderful childhood full of love and support. They were that best grandparents we could have had. Nana and Papa set examples of how to live a good life. He died on 19 Nov 1970 in Ogden, Utah, and is interred at Washington Heights Memorial Park in Ogden.
