Sarah Jones Lowndes
(1757-1801)
BIRTH
1757
PLACE
NAME
Sarah Jones
DEATH
1801
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Rawlins Lowndes
(1721-1800)
CHILDREN
William Lowndes
(1782-1822)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Sarah Jones Lowndes (1757–1801) was the daughter of Colonel Charles Jones of Georgia and Rawlins Lowndes’s third wife. She was the mother of William Jones Lowndes, born in 1782, who later represented South Carolina in Congress. Her husband had served as the state’s Revolutionary president, but William’s birth came after that term. The family held plantations worked by enslaved people. Sarah’s independent activities are less fully documented than those of her husband and son.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sarah Jones Lowndes’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Jones Lowndes is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Jones Lowndes died in 1801, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Sarah Jones Lowndes was the daughter of Colonel Charles Jones of Georgia and Rawlins Lowndes’s third wife. She was the mother of William Jones Lowndes, born in 1782, who later represented South Carolina in Congress. Her husband had served as the state’s Revolutionary president, but William’s birth came after that term. The family held plantations worked by enslaved people. Sarah’s independent activities are less fully documented than those of her husband and son. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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