Birth Date: 15 Dec 1860

Birth Place: Keene, Ionia, Michigan

Death Date: 10 May 1918

Notes:

Millie Scott tells a story of Eli burying his mother, Catherine Nash, in the yard of their log cabin in Keene township, Ionia when her grandfather was only a year and a half old and Eli was eleven

in 1870 census Ionia Co. Keene Township was 9

Spouse: Winifred Gertrude Moulton

Birth Date: 21 Mar 1869

Spouse Notes:

Winifred Gertrude Moulton Lowden was born near Waverly, Breemer county, Iowa, March 21 1869 to Freeman Stickney and Carrie Bryant Dunbar Moulton. When 4 years old they moved to Lincoln county territory of Dakota which later became part of the state of South Dakota. she grew up with the wilds of the prairies very close around as wolves and coyotes were plentiful there and Indians not many miles away and the prairie fires, grass hoppers, blizzards and Indian scares were a real tragedy in those days. She gave her life to her saviour in early childhood. She was married July 1885 to Eli Winfield Lowden and lived in Lincoln county for several years, then moving to Imboden, Arkansas for 2 1/2 years, then coming back to Lowden's home state and settled at LeRoy, Michigan.

It has not been verified who wrote the original, copied by Norm Joy Petznick , daughter of Grace Lowden Drayton

Children: Stephen, Elmer Eugene, George, Harriet Maria, Carrie May, Ida Maud, Frank Winfield, Freeman Thomas, Grace Bryant, Eva Gertrude, Unnamed (Twin), Unnamed (Twin), Norma Irene