Ruth moved back home to help her mother run the little hardware store there in North Wilkesboro. However, Decemand the Pearl Harbor attack changed all of our lives, this put a generation of young adults lives on hold for the duration of the war.Carl graduated from Officer Candidate School at Camp Lee, Virginia, and was station in Texas. By 1941, Carl and Ruth were newlyweds and living in Kinston were Carl was working for the Atlantic and East Cost Rail Road. So she immediately sold out to her brother, Jim Lowe, for the sum of $4200.Carl Buchan was from Sanhills and at the time he met Ruth he was working for a finance company out of Charlotte. Now Ruth had plans of her own and it didn't include running a hardware store, She had her eyes set on a nice young man, Carl Buchan. See the connection now?Lucius and his wife, Floy Wray, had three daughters and a son, when Lucius died in 1940, he left the family business to one of his daughters, Ruth. and Lydia Brown Lowe who was the brother of our Joshua Lowe Jr. Lowe opened Lowe's Hardware store in North Wilkesboro.Lucius was the son of John Anton and Marinda (Minda) Dowell Lowe, John was the son of Caleb A. We have the not so rich and there are those that don't have to worry about paying the light bill but ain't it wonderful?Somewhere along about 1921, Lucius S. This is what I love about my family, all four sides. Today it might be an apostle, tomorrow a gambler, the next a lawman, so stay out from under that tree if you carry your feelings on your sleeve, you could come away with some hurt feelings. I have always loved family history, I find it amazing how many different people can drop off of the same tree! Year after year one can get the same apple off of the same apple tree, not so with a family tree. I know that a lot of times, I was boring to some family members and sometimes, they hated to see me coming because they knew what they were in for. 'Do you mean to tell me that that hardware store got it's name after our family?' Well, I don't know right now, but don't it stand to reason, since it started here abouts?'A few years ago, this is what kind of conversation that took place between family members, although I must admit that I started it heading in that direction most of the time.

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