----- Original Message ----- From: <owlsnst6254@aol.com> To: <DOWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Dowell Family an witchcraft > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AST.2ACEB/467 > > Message Board Post: > > My great gradmother was Aluna Elizabeth Dowell Crmihael. Her parents were Francis Marion Dowell and Fannie Wynecoop. Francis' parents were Nicholas Dowell and Susannah Brunner. > > When my mother was about 13 Elizabeth showed her a book of witch's spells. Mother was told it had belonged to a relative and had been given to her by her mother. The book was in a wooden box with some other things. Being 13 Mother made fun of it. Another day Mother asked to see the book again, Grandma had burnt it and the rest of the things. > Does anyone know of any of the Dowells or allied families being in witchcrat? > >

I descend from one of the Salem witches, Susannah North Martin, who was executed in 1692 and had her sentence lifted 309 years later by the state legislature. She connects with my paternal grandmother's line so the Dowell connection is very remote. -----Original Message----- From: Karen Bush [mailto:karenbush@thedam.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:10 AM