The historical marker is located on the east side of Highway 45 about 9 miles south of Henderson at the Finger Road exit.
Blue Mountain College Web site is http://www.bmc.edu/
Mark Perrin Lowry, son Adam and Margaret Doss Lowrey, was born December 29(30), 1828, in McNairy County, Tennessee. He was one of eleven children left fatherless when Adam Lowrey died on a trip to market in New Orleans. When M. P. Lowrey was fifteen, the family moved to Farmington, Mississippi, a village four miles from the present town of Corinth, and it was here that sources say he learned the trade of brick-laying. Lowrey volunteered for service during the Mexican War, but neither he nor his regiment was in battle. When succession came and Mississippi called out state troops, Lowrey enlisted for sixty days of service, despite his position as a Baptist minister in Kossuth, and was elected captain of his company. Following the sixty-day service, he reluctantly consented to raise a regiment (32nd Mississippi), of which he was chosen colonel. The regiment was assigned to Wood's Brigade of Hardee's Division and was in battle at Perryville, Kentucky, where Lowrey was wounded, at Murfreesboro and other engagements in middle Tennessee, and in the Georgia campaign. After his unit served meritoriously at Chickamauge in 1863, Lowrey was promoted to brigadier-general.
Because of his involvement with religion in the army, Lowrey was at one point called the "Preacher General." He preached actively to the men of his command and at one time baptized fifty within a two-week period. After the war, Lowrey returned to his work as a Baptist preacher. He then became state evangelist and for a number of years was the editor of the Mississippi department of The Baptist. Lowrey also served as president of the Mississippi Baptist state Convention.
In 1869, Mark Perrin Lowrey purchased the Brougher estate six miles from Ripley, Mississippi, and began planning for a girl's school there. The school, named Blue Mountain Female Institute, was opened in September 1873 and prospered for twelve years under the presidency of General Lowrey. His sudden death occurred at Middleton, Tennessee, on February 27, 1887, as he was accompanying some Blue Mountain students and teachers on a trip.
General Lowery is buried in the Blue Mountain City Cemetery, located behind Blue Mountain College, a few miles west of Highway 15, Blue Mountain, Miss.