ANDREW McDOWELLS in the Census of DeKalb County and White County.

First, I will list Andrew (ca 1800-1840s) McDowell/McDole with all of his neighbors during the 1840 census. Then I will list those who lived near the older Andrew (b. before 1775- d. before 1830) McDole in 1820.

The county lines had changed when DeKalb County was formed, so in 1840 Andrew is in DeKalb County in District 8. Later, when Putnam County formed in 1854, this part of District 8 may have gone into Putnam County.

DeKalb County 1840
James McDonel
Richard Harris
Isum Cole
William Rice
James Roberson
James Willis
William Jones
Pleasant Farler
Hannah Elrod
Nathan Vincent
Jane McDole
Britten Medley
Riley Medley
Hiram Childress
Nancy Anderson
Henry Waddle
John Roberson
Andrew McDole
John McDole
John Lafferty
Asa Thompson
William Curton
Gibson Billings
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Henry Frazure
David Stroud
F_veley Martin
Alex Martin
William Hames
John Heddreth ?
Charles Bevert
Josiah Husk
John Pinegar
Bartemus Pack

Now look at who lived by the older Andrew McDole in 1820 in White County, before DeKalb County had formed. I do not know if the older Andrew is a non-relative or an uncle or a grandfather or a cousin. But I'm just going to refer to him as "Uncle Andrew" for fun. He could be a brother of John, the father of Elizabeth and Andrew, so he could be their uncle. From the info in the census Uncle Andrew was already over 45 (born by 1775), with two women in the house 16-25 years old. There was also a little boy in the home. Andrew could be the father or grandfather of the boy.

Simon Odom

Nancy Stephens

William Weeks

Elizabeth Perrin

John Powers

Joseph Driver

Leonard Thompson

William Farmer

Micijah Rashbey

John Gamble

Alexander Martin

Elisha Howard

Thomas Gambrell

Andrew Steel

John Steel

John Hubbard

James Davis

John Dasse ??

Samuel H. Allen

George Allen

Abraham Izbell

Daniel French

William Sington

Archibald Warren

Levi Bozarth

Zachariah Laphifer (Lafever)

Hambleton Roves

Thomas Pierce

Nathan Pierce

John Robinson

James Elrod

Samuel Moore

John Barr

Andrew McDole

Ephram Guffy

Richard Dean

Moses Smith

Rebecca Taylor

Austin Coker

Randolph McDaniel

Rachel Beagley

On this 1820 census, James Elrod is listed three families before Andrew. James Elrod and Elizabeth McDowell were married and parents of several children. They are listed as having 3 boys and 2 little girls. James is listed as being over 45, and Elizabeth is between 26 and 44. She was born in 1795. I don't know how James and Elizabeth met, but it might have been when she came to see "Uncle Andrew". James and Elizabeth were married by 1813.

Sippy Mcdole married William Steele, the son of John Steele, in DeKalb county in 1848. Andrew McDowell b.1799 was probably her father.

Levi Bozarth was the father of Nathan Bozarth who married Hester Ann McDowell's sister, Nancy. Nathan and Nancy took in Hester Ann and her children in Missouri in 1850. Nathan Bozarth died in Missouri before 1860. Nancy's last husband was William Lawrence. Descendants of William Lawrence say her name was Nancy Allen. If that is true, Nancy could be a daughter of the George Allen or Samuel Allen listed in this census.

ANDREW McDowell/McDole's Neighbors in 1830 WHITE CO.

Reading down the same sheet of the 1830 census of White County, Tennessee with Andrew. It is page 63. As you can see, there is no correlation between the neighbors Andrew had in 1820 and his neighbors in 1830.
If anyone call tell me what part of the county these people lived in, it would help me.

Robert Vanbibber
John Suttle
Laban Foster
Robert Love
Josiah Williams
Josiah Noland
Jesse Adkins
Thompson N. Bartlett
John Polls
Wm Baker Jr.
Peter Baker
John Brown
Claibourne Hill
John Ramsey
Joseph England
John Wilhite
Benjamin Harris
James Barn
Thomas Frashur
James Bradley
Andrew McDowel
Gideon Lyda
Benjamin Hunter Sr.
Wm. Nanny
Isaac Dotson
Wm. M. Bryan Sr.

Andrew McDowell's Neighbors in 1820 White County

I have a notebook where I have listed everyone on the same page of the census with Andrew in 1820, 1830, and 1840. I wrote the names out in columns in hopes of finding that some of the names in the different columns would match up. However, no one matched up! It's like Andrew moved every year. Any hopes I had of finding Andrew with his grandparents, cousins, et al, are dashed.

So here is the list of Andrew and his neighbors in 1820. They are in White County, Tennessee. Maybe someone will be able to tell me where these people are living within the county.

Abraham Ditty
James Ellison
Wm. Austin
Wm Martin
Thomas Custus
Thomas Ellison
Hamblenton Ellison
Alesey Setts/Fetts
Wesley Green
Arthur Green
Phllip Tarbell
Cady Fetts/Setts
Andrew McDole
James Gentry
Seaborn Odom
Charles Goodman
Thomas Bashers
Richard Herren
Wm Herren
Barry Bashers
Wm Thomas
John Bashers
Middleton Bashers
Bazil Bashers
Samuel Perrigen/Terrigen
Levi Swell
Jeremiah Swell

There Really were TWO Andrew McDowells

I found there were two Andrew McDowells in the 1820 census. One of them is 45 and over and he lives very close to Levi Bozarth, George Allen, and a variety of other men in White County. Levi Bozarth and George Allen were oldtimers, born 20 years or more before 1800. (Actually, the older Andrew is listed as a McDole and the younger Andrew is a McDowell.) There are two young women in the house with this older Andrew and one boy. I don't know who the older Andrew is.

I like to think he is an uncle of Andrew's. Maybe even his grandfather. Andrew the younger was born about 1799, but his sister Elizabeth was born in 1795 in South Carolina; so an uncle could have been born about 1770 and a grandfather about 1740/1750. The darn thing about this census is that we have no clue if a man is 47, 62, or 80 years old. He's just 45 or older. I would love to find older Andrew in an earlier census, but the Tennessee census from 1810 has been lost. Then, last night, I found the 1800 census has been lost for most of Tennessee! This will be very tough, unless I can find some proof of where this family lived in SC or NC in 1800 or 1810. There are so many McDowells by 1800.

The younger Andrew is over 16 and under 25 in 1820. He is joined by a woman the same age and two young boys that fit well with the ages of their sons John and Smith. This week I decided to figure out if young Andrew remained in the same place in 1820, 1830, and 1840 by studying his neighbors. This answer is he did not remain in the same place. The neighbors are different every time, so I decided to double check by locating his "old" neighbors in the "new" census. Sure enough, they were far apart. For example, Seibert Odom; James and Joseph Allison; and Richard and William Herron had all been close to Andrew in 1820, but in 1830 they are listed on page 97 of the census, while Andrew is on page 63. So, it looks like Andrew moved.

I am curious to find out what part of White County Andrew was in during 1820 and 1830. It doesn't really matter until 1840, since Andrew and his son, John, died between 1840 and 1850. I would like to know where they were, so I can locate a couple of local cemeteries, and go leave some flowers to show my respects.