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After finding Andrew and Elizabeth Lower in 1860 in Boone County, IN, a quick check of the Genweb site there yielded a biography of one of their sons-in-law, George W. Scott. The info pertaining to Andrew and Elizabeth Lower is as follows:
"October 6, 1865, Mr. Scott was married to Sarah Jane Lower, daughter of Andrew I. and Elizabeth (Brown) Lower. This lady's grandfather, John Lower, was a German by birth, and on coming to the United States with his own father, settled in Claiborne county, Tenn. John Lower soon absorbed the American view of the rights of Americans and willingly lent his aid in their support at the battle of New Orleans, under Jackson. He married Ollie DeHart, a lady of French extraction, and both lived to be aged in years and honored by all who knew them; they were leading members of the United Brethren church, and in the Masonic order Mr. Lower held a very high rank. He served his fellow-citizens as county commissioner for several years, and was never behindhand in yielding up his services when the public good required them. Andrew T. Lower, son of John and father of Mrs. Scott, was born in Claiborne county, Tenn., and after a married life of fifty years died February 22, 1876, at the age of sixty-eight years--his widow, Elizabeth, dying in 1878, at the age of sixty-nine years."
The full biography is at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inboone/biographies/scottgeorgew.html
Andrew is commonly attributed a middle initial of J., but looking at the 1850 and 1860 census it looks clearly to me to be a T, which is in agreement with the biography above. Unfortunately, no siblings of Mrs. Scott are mentioned, so therefore I can neither confirm nor deny that my John Lower is her older brother.
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