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Facts and Events
| Name |
James T. McDowell |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
1844 |
Chester, South Carolina, United States |
| Census[2] |
1850 |
Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Census[3] |
1860 |
Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Military[5][6][7] |
From 1862 to 1865 |
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| Property[8] |
1869 |
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| Marriage |
3 Feb 1869 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United Statesto Sybil L. Taft |
| Census[4] |
1870 |
Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Death[9] |
Bef 1880 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Burial[1][10] |
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Odd Fellows Cemetery, Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi (1891)
Vol I, p. 1186.
Goodspeed's indicates that his parents married in Chester district, South Carolina, and resided there until moving to Chickasaw County, Mississippi and that James died at Okolona.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1850 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - E. Division (Houston)
Page 612; Dwelling/ Family 123, September 13, 1850.
James T. McDowell, 6 years old, born South Carolina, residing with parents and siblings.
- ↑ 1860 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - Division 1 (Houston)
Pages 130-31; Dwelling 988 / Family 1007, September 6, 1860.
James McDowell, 15 years, born South Carolina, at school, residing with his mother and siblings in the hotel she owned. Also residing with them was his mother's second husband, E.P. Porter.
- ↑ 1870 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Town of Houston
Page 1; Dwelling/Family 7, June 4, 1870.
James McDowell, 23 years old, born South Carolina, father and mother of foreign birth, dry goods merchant with $1250 realty, $850 personalty, residing with wife and son, Edward.
- ↑ Letter War Department Adjutant General's Office to Chancery Clerk, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
August 5, 1923.
"The records show that one James McDowell, Co. E., 8th Miss. Cavalry, CSA, enlisted April 1, 1864, at Houston, Miss. Muster roll December 1, 1863 to May 11, 1864 (latest on file) shows him present, a Private. Capture, parole or later record not found. Not found as J.T. McDowell"
- ↑ Pension Application of Sybil McDowell, wife of J.T. McDowell
Approved September 6, 1926.
The application asserts that he enlisted in 1862 at Houston, Mississippi, was never discharged and was in in active service at surrender in 1865. His commanding officer was Capt. John D. Smith.
- ↑ Chickasaw County Civil War Records, Mississippi State Archives, (Box 11053).
James McDowell appears as a private on the roster of the Chickasaw Guards, Company H, 11th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry Volunteers, CSA. This record indicates that he was "transferred to cavalry". This may account for the discrepancy regarding his date of enlistment. The National Parks Service's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, confirms that he was a private in Company E, 8th Mississippi Cavalry.
- ↑ Assessment of Persons and Personal Property, Chickasaw County, 1869
Page 4.
Black & McDowell, a business operated in Houston, Mississippi, by James T. McDowell with his brother in law, David P. Black, was taxed in 1869 on sales of merchandise in the amount of $4711.
- ↑ 1880 Census, Monroe County, Mississippi (Aberdeen)
Page 228D; Dwelling 241 / Family 298, June 18, 1880.
James McDowell does not appear in the 1880 Census. His wife and children are residing with her brother, W. M. Taft in Aberdeen.
- ↑ Oddfellows Cemetery Register.
"J.T. McDowell" - No date of death or birth given.
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