Person:Cinderella Dowell (3)

Warren County, Kentucky, 1900 census:^[4]

Marr, Roscoe B. Head 39 yrs (b. Jun 1860) (marr.) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Painter

[+ wife & 5 non-relatives, including:]

Dowell, Cinderella S. Lodger 38 yrs (b. May 1862) (single) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Physician

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, 1910 census:^[5]

Dowell, C. S. Head 42 yrs (single) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Physician

Hodges, Barbara Sister 57 yrs (wid.) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Housekeeper

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, 1920 census:^[6]

Aspley, Iva Head 54 yrs (single) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Tennessee/Kentucky) "None"

      Jasper N. Father 92 yrs (wid.) b. Tennessee (parents, b. North Carolina) "None"

Dowell, C. S. Roomer 53 yrs (single) b. Kentucky (parents, b. Kentucky) Physician (General Prct.)

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, 1940 census:^[7]

Dowell, Cinderella Susan Head 77 yrs (single) (Coll-4) b. Kentucky 1935: Same place Doctor (Private practice)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Dr. Cinderella S. Dowell

2.   Bowling Green (Kentucky) City Daily
   13 Apr 1950.

   Dr. Cinderella Susan Dowell is, in our opinion, not only Bowling Green's but the state's No. 1 'Woman in Business,' not just because she's been a business woman for about 70 years but also because, at 87, she's still going strong and does enough work in one day to put three other people, half her age, in the shade. She's the strongest and most wonderful character we've ever known with a keen interest in everything and a benign attitude toward life. She practices homeopathic medicine and makes daily calls on her patients, driving her own car.
   
   Dr. Dowell was born in Meade county on August 8, 1862, a daughter of William H. and Nancy Dowell (who were cousins), the youngest of 12 children and the only surviving member of her family. All but one of her sisters and brothers lived to be 60. She first got her urge to be a doctor because of her maternal grandmother, Barbara Shacklett Dowell, who was a practicing physician. But her mother convinced her that first must come an education. She helped her mother and sister dry apples and took part of her money to buy books to read and study.
   
   At last she was ready and on a cold, icy morning, March 5, 1877, at the age of 14 set out upon her school career. At that time there was a five-month's session of school called Free School because the state paid the teachers. After the close of the Free School some of the teachers would go over the district and solicit pupils for $1.25 and $1.50 per month for each pupil for three months. Dr. Dowell, although not a teacher, did that and had several pupils. Then at the end of three terms she returned to the Free School, but was advised to get a certificate and begin teaching at Free School herself, which she did.
   
   Her first pay went to her mother to be used for a long-desired visit to others of her children in Missouri. In fact, most of Dr. Dowell's money has gone to make someone else happy and she is known to be the soul of generosity itself. For 25 years she taught school for eight months of each year, in Meade county, Fort Knox community, Breckinridge, Hardin and Warren counties, Pleasureville and Princeton.
   
   While teaching she also attended the Old Southern Normal School and Business College here between terms, when Professor Mell and J. Tom Williams were members of the faculty.
   
   She went to school with the Cherry (T. C. and H. H.) brothers and J. R. Alexander, later she taught them and says now that Dr. J. L. Harman was one of her best students. She took science, a business course, calisthenics and, on the side, expression from Carrie Burks (Mrs. James A.) Mitchell. She was also, for awhile, secretary to Professors T. C. and H. H. Cherry. Then she entered the Southwestern Homeopathic Medical College in Louisville. When she graduated, she returned to Bowling Green and opened an office on the corner of Eighth and College streets. She remembers that her first patient was Mattie Backus (now Mrs. Robert Duncan of Tampa, Fla.) a daughter of Elmer Backus, railroader, who was ill with typhoid fever. Her next office was in a house on College street where the Kroger Store is now. For about five years she had no conveyance and walked everywhere to make her calls, then she got a horse and buggy which she drove until 1912 when she bought a Ford.
   
   In 1907 she bought a house across from the B. U. which she later sold to L. T. Dickey and moved to Miss Iva Aspley's home on Eleventh street where she lived for about 30 years, until she moved to the home she now has at 1119 Park street.

3. ↑ Kentucky, United States. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com [database on-line], 2007).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Warren, Kentucky, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 102, p. 10B, dwelling/family 182/214 (605 E. Chesnut St).
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Warren, Kentucky, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 118, p. 1B, dwelling/family 10/10 (1142 College St).
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Warren, Kentucky, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 133, p. 23A, dwelling/family 556/585.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 Warren, Kentucky, United States. 1940 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 114-1, p. 15A, #367 (1119 Park St).