----- Original Message ----- From: <bernieandrose@juno.com> To: <DOWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: Re: Benjamin Franklin Dowell.. > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Dowell- Dunlop(Dunlap)Weatherred- McAlary > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AST.2ACEB/321.328.336.1.2.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Our Ben Franklin Dowell...brother James, Major, John , > and sisters..Nancy Anne , Patience, Mary,known as Mollie, > Dorcas, and Mildred... ..Nine children...and James is known to have been born 1-15-1781..in Va..near or South of Piney > Mount..or near Charlottesville, Va... 12 miles from in an area > of Ruckersville, Va...in today's world...For the most part..The > other children..were born earlier than James..except Nancy Anne who married a Francis Marcus Weatherred..and migrated through Tn..,and into Texas..after...1836...from Memphis area... > Of these children..I don't know about John Dowell..but Benjamin Dowell migrated to Sumner Co., Tn...and ended up in Maury Co., Tn...He married daughter of one of Ky governors..Elizabeth Desha...I think...I have other info.. > bernieandrose@juno.com. > >