Robert Alexander Dowell

Birth Date

1837-10-29

Death Date

1917-04-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Son of Willis Dowell and Martha Dowell. Married to Mary Hill Dowell in Crittenden County, Kentucky, on November 4, 1857. Father of Martha E. Dowell, Edward Dowell, and Robert E. Dowell. Resident of Smith County, Tennessee, in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Smith County in 1850. Farmer in Crittenden County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Crittenden County in 1860. Appointed agent of the state of Indiana for the requisition of John W. Rutherford in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Smith County, p. 369B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Smith County, p. 25.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, District 1, p. 495.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, City/District, p. 356A.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, Marion, District 1, p. 54D.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Crittenden County Marriages, Film 000558428, p. 147.
"Obituary," Progressive-Signal, (Greensburg, KS), 19 April 1917, p. 4.
"Robert Alexander Dowell (1837-1917)," Find A Grave, Memorial 35074561, accessed September 18, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35074561.
KYR-0001-006-0058.

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