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Facts and Events
| Name |
William Banks McDowell |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][8] |
13 Apr 1842 |
Chester, South Carolina, United States |
| Census[2] |
1850 |
Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Census[3] |
1860 |
Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Military[13] |
From 1861 to 1865 |
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| Property[11] |
1867 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Marriage |
19 May 1867 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United Statesto Martha Elmore Sadler |
| Census[4] |
1870 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Property[10] |
1873 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Property[14] |
1874 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United StatesLot No. 128, west side of Centre Street |
| Property[9] |
1875 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Census[5] |
1880 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Property[12] |
1883 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Other[15] |
1895 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United StatesPeoples Party Executive Committee |
| Census[6] |
11 Jun 1900 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Census[7] |
1910 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Death[1] |
9 Jan 1914 |
Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Obituary[16] |
15 Jan 1914 |
Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
| Burial[1] |
Jan 1914 |
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Okolona, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Grave Marker.
"W. B. McDowell, born April 13, 1842, died January 9, 1914"
- ↑ 1850 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - E. Division (Houston)
Page 612; Dwelling/ Family 123, September 13, 1850.
William B. McDowell, 8 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.
Wm. McDowell, 17 years old, born South Carolina, hotel clerk, 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 - 3rd Subdivision of the Northern Division (Okolona)
Page 70; Dwelling 475/ Family 490, September 6, 1870.
W.B. McDowell, 28 years, born South Carolina, farmer with $600 personalty, residing with wife, M. E. and daughter, Elma (2 years old).
- ↑ 1880 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - Okolona Town, ED 31
Page 4; Dwelling/Family 34, June 2, 1880.
McDowell W.B. W M 37 married County official SC Ire Ire
", Martha E W F 30 wife married keeping house MS NC AL
", Elma W F 12 dau single at school MS SC MS
", Nannie L W F 9 dau single at school MS SC MS
", Joseph S W M 7 son single at school MS SC MS
", May E W F 4 dau single MS SC MS
", Maria S. W F 1 dau single MS SC MS
- ↑ 1900 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - Okolona Precinct, ED 16
Page 92B; Dwelling 122 / Family 134, June 11, 1900.
William McDowell, 54 years old, born March, 1846 in South Carolina, father and mother born South Carolina, married 30 years, farmer, residing with his wife and children, Maria and William.
- ↑ 1910 Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi - Okolona City, Ward 2
Page 162A; Dwelling/Family 8, April 19, 1910.
W. B. McDowell, 62 years old, born South Carolina, father and mother born Ireland, married for 43 years, living on his own income, owned his home, residing with his wife, son, Will, and daughter-in-law.
- ↑ Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi (1891)
Vol I, pp. 1185-86.
Indicates that his parents married in Chester district, South Carolina, and resided there until moving to Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
- ↑ Assessment of Persons and Personal Property, Chickasaw County, 1875
Page 55.
In 1875 W.B. McDowell was assessed personal property tax on 4 cows, 3 horses, 3 mules, 2 wheeled vehicles, 2 pistols and 1 watch.
- ↑ Assessment of Persons and Personal Property, Chickasaw County, 1873.
In 1873 Wm. B. McDowell was assessed personal property tax on 10 cows, 3 horses, 2 mules, 10 swine, 2 wheeled vehicles and 1 pistol.
- ↑ Assessment of Persons and Personal Property, Chickasaw County, 1867
Page 65.
W.B. McDowell was assessed personal property tax on $75 of watches. Mcdowell Bros., a firm in which he may have held an interest, was assessed personal property tax on
$6500 in sales of merchandise by regular merchants.
- ↑ Assessment of Persons and Personal Property, Chickasaw County, 1883
Page 343.
W. B. McDowell was assessed personal property tax on 1 pistol.
- ↑ Pension Application of William B. McDowell
Office of the State Auditor Series 1201: Confederate Pension Applications, 1889-1932, August 4, 1909.
The application reports that William B. McDowell enlisted at Chickasaw County in April, 1861, in the 11th Mississippi Infantry, Company H, under Col. Moore and Captain W. F. Tucker. He served until the close of the war. After July 3, 1863 he was assigned to detailed duty. He was wounded in battle three times: at the battles of 2nd Manassas in 1862, Suffolk in 1862 and at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, where he was "permanently disabled...by nature of wounds giving there". He was then assigned to detailed service at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, until the time of surrender in 1865. At the time of the application he reported that had been totally blind since 1904.
Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi (1891), Vol I, pp. 1185-86, indicates that after he was wounded at Gettysburg, he served in the quartermaster department.
- ↑ The Prairie News, Okolona, Mississippi
Vol. 20, No. 9, Page 4, September 04, 1874.
W.B. McDowell assessed for "Lot in Town of Okolona No. 128, west side of Centre Street"
- ↑ The People's Messenger, Okolona, Mississippi
Vol 24, No. 11, Page 4, November 20, 1895.
W.B. McDowell listed as member of the Peoples Party Executive Committee.
- ↑ Okolona Messenger
January 15, 1914.
W.B. McDowell
The death angel has again visited our little city on the night of January 10th and removed from our midst our neighbor and friend W.B. McDowell.
While he had been in failing health for several years, the immediate cause of his death was the result of a fall on the street a few days before he died.
He was nearly 72 years old and spent most of his life in and near Okolona, where he had many friends. He was a man that kept well read on the events of the day, a man of decided convictions on all subjects pertaining to the welfare of his country and always able to give a reason for the faith that was in him. He was entertaining and companionable in any company, possessing a large fund of anecdotes which, with is fine flow of Irish wit makes him gifted in the telling of them.
He was an ex-confederate soldier and followed the flag of the Sunny South with a devotion and loyalty that made him noted for his bravery on the battlefield. He was badly wounded in the great battle of Gettysburg from which he never sufficiently
recovered to do field duty again, though he did a great work in caring for the sick and wounded until the close of the war.
He was buried from the Grace Episcopal church, the beautiful service being conducted by his pastor, Rev. J. Lundy Sykes, a large course of friends attending.
His genial face will be missed on the streets and in the home, for which he was a sunshiny man with a kind word for everybody.
He leaves a widow and two sons to mourn his loss.
Peace to his ashes as he goes to joint that silent host of old comrades, tried in the fires of patriotism and not found wanting, beyond the river where the bugle blast of was dread alarm will be heard no more.
-- J.M. Haley
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