George Washington & Lucy Johnson McDowell
George Washington McDowell was born in Tennessee on August 17, 1838. He was the
oldest child of William and Jane Collins Robinson McDowell (see "Our McDowell Family" page). Sometime
after the birth of younger brother Joseph in 1840, the family moved to Alabama where siblings Hannah,
Letta and Ganium where born between 1846 and 1852. By the mid 1850's the family had moved on to
Ripley Co, MO, where George married Lucy Johnson on July 8, 1857. Lucy was born in Alabama in 1838. We do
not know who Lucy's parents are yet, but wonder if her family moved with the McDowell's from Alabama. According to
census records, Lucy's father was born in Virginia and her mother in Tennessee. George and Lucy are buried in the Macedonia Cemetery
in Ripley County, MO.
George and Lucy had the following children:
- Minerva McDowell born c1860 MO m: George Washington McKinney August 8, 1882 in Ripley Co, MO
- Jefferson McDowell born Aug 1862 MO m: Oma A Thompson March 5, 1882, Ripley Co, MO
- William "David" McDowell born Aug 1862 MO m: Margaret M Hooper October 7, 1884, Ripley Co, MO
- Mary J McDowell born c1867 MO
- Joseph McDowell born Sep 3, 1869 MO died May 15, 1960 m: Minnie Myrick c1891
- Hannah McDowell born c1873 MO m: April 05, 1895 Ripley Co, MO, George Clark
- Ganium McDowell born July 1, 1872 Grandin (Carter Co), MO m: Ms Ora Augusta Lassen December 01, 1893 Ripley Co, MO
Why was George's brother Joseph's son George (G) McDowell living with the Isaac Webb family five houses away from George and family on the 1880 Carter County, MO census?
George McDowell born c1866 MO d: c1880 (the enumerated had marked through the name and written "dead"). Susie Patton's records show that he died 24? June 1880. This would have been right
around the time of the census. Was the Webb family of Carter County in the same general locality of Joseph McDowell's family enumerated in Ripley County?
At the time of the 1880 census Minerva was Minerva McKinney and had six month old daughter Mary A
McKinney living with her. We are curious as to where George W McKinney was and why Minerva and Mary were going by
"McKinney" when the date of Minerva and George's marriage appears on various records as 1882.
Also on the 1880 Carter County, MO, census, there was a Ganium McDowell age seven living with the James Webb family and under relationship it had "raising". It would
be hard to imagine that there would be more than one seven year old Gainum McDowell in one neighborhood and so that leaves the
impression that at least one (and probably two) of George's children lived elsewhere at least part of the year. George W McDowell
was living with his son, Jefferson, in Ripley County, MO during the 1900 census. George died 28 Jul 1910 in Ripley County, Missouri.
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