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/418.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I received data regarding Jacob Dowell from Bill Drown, Methodist Church historian for Eastern Ohio. He gave me a list of the circuits Jacob preached between 1807-1816 as well as the following: >From the book Abstracts of Obituaries in the Western Christian Advocate 1834-1850 page 35 1838 Rev. Jacob Dowell; b. Calvert Co., MD; d 11 May 38, about 63 yrs. old, Dalton, OH; husband & father. (5-24: 1 jun 38) The same information should be available(for a fee) from the Methodist Church archives. Do you have more information on the Defiance Co. Dowells? Where they lived before settling in Defiance Co.? Offspring?ETC.? Sharon