Posted on: Warren County, Ia Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/Warren/1183 Surname: ------------------------- I think you may already have this information but I will pass it along again. From the Warren County History. I still own some of James Dowell's land. He was my great grandfather. James W. Dowell, was born in Kentucky, of Dutch and Welsh ancestry, and died in 1903, at the ripe old age of eighty-one years. From his native state he removed to Montgomery county, Indiana, with his parents when thirteen years of age, making that place his home for ten years. It was then, in 1845, that he came to Warren county, Iowa, and cast his lot with the pioneers of this region. In early life he had worked as a mechanic, but later turned his attention to farming and on coming to this county he entered land in Greenfield township, to the improvement and cultivation- of which he devoted his energies until his retirement from active labor in 1887, becoming a resident of Des Moines at that time. There he made his home until called to his final rest. Twice he enlisted for service in the Civil war but failed to pass muster. He was first an old-line Whig but became a republican on the birth of that party. He was active in church work as a member of the Baptist denomination and led an upright Christian life. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Martha Reese, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, in 1827, and is of Irish and English descent. She is still living at the age of eighty-one years, her mental and physical faculties intact. By birthright she is a Quaker but for many years she has held membership in the Baptist church.