James Lowry was born in about1752, at Augusta County, in the State of Virginia. He was the son of John Lowry II, who was born in about 1723, in Ireland and Elizabeth Moore, who was born in about 1825, in Augusta County, in the State of Virginia.
James Lowry was a member of the Continental Army, from the State of Virginia. during the American Revolutionary War.
He was married to Jane McCaleb, in about 1778, in the State of North Carolina. She was born in about 1760, in the State of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of:
Elizabeth Lowry was born on the Thirteenth day of August, in 1790, at Washington County, in the State of Virginia and died in 1871, at Springfield, Greene County, in the State of Missouri. She was married to Robert Lowry Doran on the Nineteenth day of May, in 1812, at Washington County, in the State of Virginia. Elizabeth Lowry used the nickname of Betsy.