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From: Jerilyn Johnson <>
Subject: Re: Fw: Most wanted ancestors
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:36:50 -0500


Hi John,
I also found James SILLETT's brother in a familytreemaker page. I was
excited. It does help to search and search and search. It pays off.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND H APPY NEW YEAR FOLKS.
Love,
Jerilyn

John Tippet wrote:

> Clermonters:
>
> I posted my most wanted ancestor (see below) to this list in early
> December. I thought you all might want to know that I recently discovered
> a distant cousin, Patrick Pearsey, while digging around on the Internet. I
> found that the familytreemaker web site has web pages for many different
> families, among them for the Lower family. Patrick has answered most of
> the questions I had about Michael Lower, and has provided me with a
> genealogy of this family that extends 5 or 6 generations back in time, back
> through VA, PA and Germany, including the name of the ship that the
> immigrant ancestor came over on! This to me is about the best Christmas
> present I could have hoped for.
>
> Merry Christmas one and all
>
> John Charles Tippet
>
>
> P.S. I will be posting an updated genealogy of my Lower family to my web
> site that will include much of the data that Patrick has so gratiously
> provided.
>
> ----------
> > From: John Tippet <>
> > To: Clermont <>
> > Cc: Behymer <>
> > Subject: Most wanted ancestors
> > Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 2:24 PM
> >
> > My most wanted ancestors are Michael Lower and his sons, Peter, Jacob and
> > John. Michael bought land in Clermont County in 1806 and then later sold
> > it in 1809. I do not know where they came from prior to migrating to
> > Clermont or where they went to after leaving Clermont. One of Peter's
> > sons, John J Lower is my gg grandfather and he married Elizabeth
> > Beckelhymer, daughter of Joseph Beckelhymer and Christina Lazena in 1824
> in
> > Clermont. John J was born in VA per the census records, but I have no
> idea
> > in which county his parents lived, or for how long they were there.
> There
> > is a short mention of Michael Lower and his sons in the Everts history of
> > Clermont County, according to which, Peter Lower killed himself in a fit
> of
> > insanity in the Ohio River. There is also a land transaction in Clermont
> > for a Sarah Lower in 1826. Sarah is a probable sister to my gg
> > grandfather, John J, and I would like to know more about her. The only
> > data I have, other than the land transaction, is that she is a niece of
> > Jonathan Beckelhymer who became a Mormon and left Clermont for Nauvoo,
> IL.
> > Jonathan was there during the time that Joseph Smith was killed.
> >
> > John Charles Tippet
> >

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