Jane Parks McDowell
BIRTH 5 Mar 1746
Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH 8 Oct 1824 (aged 78)
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
BURIAL
Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
--Daughter of Hugh Parks & wife Margaret Young.
--Jane married John McDowell
--She is known as a local patriot, sort of the Paul Revere of Mecklenburg County, who is said to have ridden 10 miles, with a baby, to tell her husband and his military unit that the British were evacuating Charlotte during the American Revolution.
--The McDowell home was on S. Tryon Street in Charlotte. The original log cabin is still contained within what is now a larger, later home. Plans in 2016 were to demolish the house to redevelop the land. Currently groups are trying to get the house, which is in poor shape, preserved. A historical marker at the site commemmorates Jane's ride.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67889394/jane-mcdowell
