This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDowell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAB.2ACI/2835.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: While researching the John and Lucinda Rippetoe MCDOWELL family at Russell Co, KY 1850 ...(this family formerly of ADAIR) I found a 2 year old male, name: DOCTOR MCDOWELL on the Russell Mortality Schedule of 1850, died of Flux in October. I originally thought something was wrong with the listing... a 2 yr old Doctor ? I see now how DOCTOR was quite possibly the child's first name.