A Pictorial History
of
Lowry, Virginia
Page Four
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"Green Grass of Home" |
Looking back , and it doesn’t seem that long ago, things were different. The feel of a cold morning mist, the smell of honeysuckle on a spring morning walk, the sound of a summer shower on an old barn's tin roof. These are things of long ago and not worthy of today’s fast pace and modern ways. But this was the world of Walter Markham & Bessie Lowry, growing up at Lowry, Virginia.
Walter was the son of B. R. Markham and lived at Meddowbrook, the old home of John Lowry, Jr., which B. R. Markham had purchased
in 1867. It was located on the Old Forrest Road just one mile east of
Bessie Lowry’s home at Centerpoint.
Walter had met Bessie during the summer of 1900 at a Timber Ridge Baptist
Church Picnic. Both of their families were members of Timber
Ridge, but Walter’s first recollection of this beautiful girl was at that picnic.
Time past and in the summer of 1905 when Walter was twenty years old, he finally got the nerve to ask Bessie’s father Junius Lowry, if he could call on her at their home. After a few minutes, although it seemed like hours to Walter, Junius agreed Walter could come to the Lowry
Home to call on Bessie.
This was the start of a long and beautiful romance,
with
outings (properly chaperones)
and trips
to Hotel Mons,
and
“The Peaks”, on the 4th of July,
and other special outings.
This was the day of horse and buggy,
and Walter had a good looking buggy, and
a fast team.
Thornton
Whorley was Walter’s best friend, and he
accompanied Walter on many outings
with Bessie,
accompanying by
her sister Catherine
Lowry.
