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The Dowdy Family
History
The DOWDYs of
Virginia, Tennessee & Texas
Family Histories
Deeds
Obituaries
Wills
Photos,
Etc.
Dowdy Links
& Stray Dowdy Alert!
I'll
be adding more to this area as time permits. Since I
started this genealogy website, I haven't had a lick of
time to work on my own genealogy! However, I do have quite
a bit more material on this DOWDY family, and I'll
eventually get it all online.
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Family
Histories
A wonderful history of this DOWDY family can be found online.
I encourage you to take a look around the Ames Plantation website while you're
there, too, because they have a lot of information to offer, including the
online history of the COTTON family (no relation to any of my lines... that I
know of).
The Ames Plantation also host an annual Cultural Resources Field Day which I recommend very
highly. Our whole family enjoyed the living
history exhibitions, presentations from archaeologists and scholars,
storytellers, Civil War re-enactors and more.
William
Preston DOWDY and Lucy E. MAY were married in Fayette Co., Tennessee on December 15, 1846.
He was the son of Richard DOWDY, Sr. and Martha (?), who had arrived in
Fayette County in the mid-1830's, having come from Cumberland Co., Virginia.
Lucy was the daughter of William Meredith MAY and Catherine Mask JARRETT, who
moved to Fayette Co. around 1830. Both native Virginians, William MAY was born
in Buckingham Co., and Catherine hailed from nearby Goochland County.
William and Lucy had 9 children:
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William Preston DOWDY, Jr. born
1847, died 1858
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Richard Oscar DOWDY, born about
1848; married Cecile
M. CHAZE in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, Dec. 23, 1882.
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Mary Virginia "Jennie"
DOWDY, my great-grandmother, born April 19, 1860, died June 22, 1921. She
graduated from the Somerville Female Institute.
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Florence May DOWDY
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Walter Davis DOWDY
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Lucy Ella "Lula" DOWDY
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Sam Edgar DOWDY
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William Preston DOWDY, Jr., whose
name was changed to Eugene Preston DOWDY
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Minnie Kate DOWDY
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Deeds
Purchase of land from
DYER estate
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Wills
Will
of Martha DOWDY
Will of William
Preston DOWDY
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Obituaries
Mary Virginia DOWDY
Obituary
(Mrs. Gustavus Watts
ALLEN)
Lucy
E. MAY Obituary
(Mrs. William Preston DOWDY)
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Photos,
Etc.
Mary Virginia DOWDY
Photograph
(Date uncertain,
probably 1871-1873.)
"Jennie" DOWDY was the daughter of William
Preston DOWDY and Lucy E. MAY. She was born April 15, 1850 in Fayette County,
Tennessee, and died June 22, 1921 in McKinney, Collin Co., Texas. She is buried
in the historic Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney.
She married Gustavus Watts ALLEN, a veteran of the 13th
Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., in 1870. They were the parents of seven children.
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Dowdy
Links &
Strays
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A South
Australia Family: Includes DOWDY
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Descendants of Thomas (I) DOWDY
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Billie Sweat's FamilyTreeMaker pages, including the descendants of Richard
DOWDY
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The DOWDY Mother
Lode! DOWDY data galore is what you'll find at
DOWDY
Family Branches!
You'll find an
excellent history of my own Fayette County, Tennessee DOWDY family
online,
provided by the folks at Ames Plantation.
The researchers at the Ames Plantation
have done an wonderful job of piecing together family stories from the physical
and archival clues, and they're helping to preserve a cultural heritage that was
nearly lost forever. Visit their website, and if you're able, attend their
Cultural Resources Field Day, too, which is wonderful!
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Stray
DOWDY Alert! From
time to time I come across a stray DOWDY or two, whether in the old
newspapers featured on this website or while tramping through cemeteries. Be
sure to check the Index
of Names, where each new name is added every time I add another
newspaper image.
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