Fallingwater River

About 1814 John McDowell settled near this spot on the Fallingwater River in Tennessee. He owned 30 acres. When John died about 1819, his estate included a horse valued at $97.25. Most horses that I have seen in estate settlements were valued at $7-$15. John owned a valuable stud horse. Had it been a famous racehorse?



This photo was taken at Burgess Park, which is open to the public. Burgess Park has three waterfalls; this is Little Falls. Burgess Park is near Sparta and Cookeville in Middle Tennessee.

Monday, December 13, 2010

HESTER McDOWELL's Family in TANEY COUNTY, MO in 1860

In the 1860 census in Campbell Township, Taney County, Missouri, Hester was living on her own place with her sons and Nancy Ann. Teirce Thompson was living with Nancy Bozarth and Nancy's new husband, William Lawrence. Hester and Nancy both lived in Campbell Township, and their Post Office was at Prior's Store. Incidentally, William Lawrence was Postmaster at Prior's Store 3 January 1856. He served for one year. Emmeline McDowell and Levi Bozarth had married in Taney County in 1857.
[Note: in 1864 Campbell Township became part of Douglas County, Missouri.]

The census says:
Dwelling House 439
Hester McDowel...40...f...$800...$206...Ten
Owen McDowel...16...m...Farm hand...Ten...attended school within the year
James McDowel...11...m...Ten..attended school within the year
Nancy McDowel...10...f...Mo

Hester's next door neighbor is Joseph Bozarth from Tennessee. He has a son named Levi who is listed as being 15. Hester's oldest daughter, Emmeline McDowell, has married a different young man named Levi Bozarth. Both Levi's are grandsons of Levi Bozarth of Tennessee who lived in White and then DeKalb Counties in Tennessee where the McDowells also lived.

The expert on Emmeline McDowell and Levi Bozarth is their descendant Judy Young. We got in touch through GenForum in 1999. I just looked at some of the old posts. Judy was very generous with her information, and we shared pictures. She had a website at that time, but yesterday I could not find her site. I did find several people on Ancestry had copies of her photograph where she has a picture of Emmeline and Nancy Ann beside each other so you can see the resemblance as they got older. Another researcher who is very generous is VirJean Potter Bozarth. She made sure I found out who Nathan Bozarth was. [Nathan was a son of the elder Levi Bozarth mentioned above. Nathan was born about 1816 in White County, Tennessee. One source says he died about 1853. It seems like he and Nancy had no children; there were no young Bozarths living with Nancy in 1860-1880.]
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