David C. Lowrey, a well known and enterprising planter of White County, and resident of the first civil district is a native of this county, and was born January 24, 1850. He is the son of Charles and Kittie (Hudgens) Lowrey, both natives of White County. Mr. Lowrey’s father was of Irish descent and was born in 1820, and died in 1883, in the county that gave him birth. He was married in 1844, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits, to which he associated the raising and trading in live stock. He made life a good success, was an old line Whig before the war, and a Democrat after the war. Mr. Lowrey’s mother’s ancestors came from France. She was born in 1826, and is still living a resident of White County. The Lowreys originally came from Pennsylvania, and Mr. Lowrey’s ancestors on his mother’s side came from Kentucky. His great-grandmother on his mother’s side was a niece of Daniel Boone. Our subject is the third of five children. He was educated at the Sparta Seminary and Burrett College, Van Buren County. He has been a merchant, a trader and a planter, and has been successful in them all. In 1867 he settled with his father on the farm where he now lives. Being a live enterprising man all of his life, he has secured a fair competency of this world’s goods, and owns a farm of 625 acres in White County. On January 18, 1877, he was married to Miss Maggie Meredith, born in Texas in 1858, though raised in White County. Unto this union are born three children — two sons and one daughter. Mr. Lowrey is a stanch Democrat, and always supports that party. He is not a church member, but a firm believer in the Bible, and is in sympathy with the Christian Church. His wife is a deserving member of the Christian Church.

Source:   Goodspeed Pub. Co. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.