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• James Low and Easson Will
  Forfarshire, Scotland and Lyonsville (Chicago,) IL
• James Lowe and Amanda McClintock
  Lyonsville (Chicago,) IL and Mahaska, Washington Co., KS
• Fred Will Lowe and Ida May Edwards
  Pleasanthill, Cass Co., MO and Mahaska, Washington Co., KS
• James Kent Lowe 1932 - 2007
  

• Matthias and Magdalena
  Bavaria and Onondaga Co., NY to Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
• Caspar Coonrod and Emily Bishop
  Bavaria and Onondaga Co., NY and Mahaska, Washington Co., KS
• Charles Hammond Coonrod and Cynthia Mae Henry
  Sandwich, DeKalb Co., IL and Mahaska, Washington Co., KS
  
  Coonrod Family Reunion 2003 - Mahaska, Kansas
  Coonrod Family Reunion 2006 - Mahaska, Kansas

Charles H. Coonrod was the original owner of the Lowe's Grocery in Mahaska. At that time the building was a hardware and implement store. In the late 1940's he sold the building and business to his son Harley Coonrod and his grandson Harold. Harley retired and sold to Harold.

The next owner of the building was Arthur Junior Lowe who turned the business into a grocery store until the 1970's. The building was tore down in the late 1980's. Please share memories with me. I remember that the store was packed full of items, wall to wall. I remember the wooden floors creaked under my feet.

If you have come to my website via Ancestry: Several years ago the genealogy giant Ancestry absorbed the genealogy websites of Rootsweb along with personal databases posted at Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project that included a large database of my own family information. I started using Rootsweb in 2000 and they gave us the capability to add, remove, and update our information at anytime and I used these options frequently to post correct and current data. Presently (2006) I am told by Ancestry that we cannot maintain our own databases, we cannot even remove them. If you find information at Ancestry with my name attached please search my website for current information, the databases posted at Ancestry contain inaccurate information. - Karen Rowe.