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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posting to the Afrigeneas Website Mail List To: afrigeneas@MsState.Edu Sam Everett was b Oct. 25, 1889, son of Amanda [Lucas] and
Cal Everett. Sam Everett's brother was Solomon Dowdy, a member of a Dowdy
slave family. When the war ended, Sam left Ashley County and went to MS
to get Kate. To: afrigeneas@MsState.Edu
The following are the names of African Americans who were
residing in Dowdie, Solomon, sawyer, 66 Dallas St --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Series E, Part 3 of the Antebellum Records of Southern Plantations"
covers
REV. JOHN DOWDY- Pittsylvania
Posting from SLAVEINFO-L Mailing List at Rootsweb: Ex-Slave mentioned in the book "Bullwhip, Slaves Remember" Daniel Dowdy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1900 Darlington Co SC Census (Florence County formed from Darlington in 1888). Plametto Township Major (Masor) Dowdy b Apr 1843 age 57 NC, Mary J. Sept 1853 age 46 SC, Prasillar b Mar 1876 age 24 SC, Allice b Sept 1877 age 22 SC, Masor J. b. Mar 1879 age 21 SC, Leolion b June 1882 age 18 NC, Ladshaw b May 1884 age 16 SC, Elizabeth b Apr 1889 age 11 SC, George b Dec 1895 age 4 SC, Mary b Apr 1899 age 1 SC (granddaughter), Wilson b Aug 1899 age 9/12 SC (grandson)....census vol 26, Ed 26, Sheet 3, Line 85
Other African American Dowdy families in the 1900 Darlington
SC census: Darlington County SC 1870 Census pg 594 George Dowdy age 40 NC, Cherry 30 NC, Fanny 7 NC, Mary
6 NC, Mercy 4 NC, Ruth 2 NC
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moore County NC 496-Mendenhall Doudy 23 NC (in HH of N.McS. Cookman) Wilson County African American Sailors in the Civil War (source: Howard University Research Project) John Dowdy Naval Service Detailed Muster Records
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fayette County TN Number, date, family, employer
1880 CENSUS Stewart County - Cumberland Iron Works Elijah DOWDY Self W Male MU 52 TN Farmer TN TN Izorah DOWDY Dau S Female MU 21 TN Keeping House TN TN Donah DOWDY Dau S Female MU 19 TN At Home TN TN George DOWDY Son S Male MU 17 TN Farm Laborer TN TN Rebecca DOWDY Dau S Female MU 13 TN At Home TN TN Alice DOWDY Dau S Female MU 12 TN At Home TN TN Edward DOWDY Son S Male MU 10 TN Farm Laborer TN TN Icey DOWDY Dau S Female MU 7 TN TN TN Watson DOWDY Son S Male MU 5 TN TN TN Anna KISER GDau S Female B 12 TN TN TN Harrison PARCHMAN Other S Male B 30 TN Farm Laborer TN TN
Stewart County - Cumberland Iron Works Fanny EVANS Self M Female W 43 IL Keeps Boarding House PA PA Clay EVANS Son S Male W 21 TN Laborer KY IL Lilly EVANS Dau S Female W 18 TN At Home KY IL Lou EVANS Dau S Female W 15 TN At Home KY IL Mary EVANS Dau S Female W 4 TN KY IL Guy EVANS Son S Male W 9M TN KY IL Sarah DOWDY Other W Female B 52 TN Cook TN TN Cora DOWDY Other S Female B 9 TN TN TN
Shelby County - Dist 6 Fulton DOWDY Self M Male B 20 TN Laborer UNK UNK Eliza DOWDY Wife M Female MU 18 TN Laborer UNK TN Bettie DOWDY Dau S Female MU 2 TN TN TN Charles DOWDY Son S Male MU 4M TN TN TN
Fayette County - Dist 11 James DOWDY Self M Male B 23 TN Works On Farm MISS MISS Timmson DOWDY Wife M Female B 22 TN Keeping House MISS MISS Elzabeth DOWDY Dau S Female B 10 TN At Home MISS MISS Cora DOWDY Sister S Female B 20 TN At Home TN TN
Fayette County - Dist 11 Naman EAKLY Self M Male B 27 TN Farming TN TN Nancy EAKLEY Wife S Female B 25 TN Keeping House TN TN James EAKLY Son S Male B 7 TN TN TN Luke EAKLEY Son S Male B 5 TN TN TN Mollie EAKLY Dau S Female B 3 TN TN TN Kobert EAKLY Son S Male B 1M TN TN TN Lisie DOWDY Other W Female B 32 TN Works On Farh TN TN
Fayette County - Dist 14 Willis DOWDY Self M Male B 28 TN Farmer TN TN Adline DOWDY Wife M Female B 29 TN Keeping House TN TN Tennessee DOWDY Dau S Female B 13 TN At Home TN TN Ella DOWDY Dau S Female B 11 TN At Home TN TN Jennie DOWDY Dau S Female B 6 TN TN TN Sallie DOWDY Dau S Female B 9 TN At Home TN TN Alouis DOWDY Son S Male B 10 TN At Home TN TN Aaron DOWDY Son S Male B 4 TN TN TN Tommie DOWDY Son S Male B 2 TN TN TN
Fayette County - Dist 14 S. P. PHILLIPS Self M Male W 61 VA Farmer VA VA Mary PHILLIPS Wife M Female W 58 TN Keeping House KY NC Nancie TAYLER Other S Female W 13 KY Servant NC TN Charley DOWDY Other M Male B 26 TN Laborer TN TN Francis DOWDY1 Other M Female B 20 TN Cooks For Family TN TN Lillie DOWDY2 Other S Female B 3 TN TN TN Charley DOWDY3 Other S Male B 1 TN TN TN Notes 1REL WAS WIFE 2REL WAS DAU 3REL WAS SON
Fayette County - Dist 14 Archey DOWDEY Self M Male B 32 TN Farmer VA VA Ettie DOWDEY Wife M Female B 18 TN Keeping House NC NC Lula DOWDEY Dau S Female B 1M TN TN TN
Fayette County - Dist 14 Corline DOWDY Self W Female B 31 TN Works On Farm TN TN Mose DOWDY Son S Male B 16 TN Works On Farm TN TN Joe DOWDY Son S Male B 10 TN TN TN Mary DOWDY Dau S Female B 8 TN TN TN Pett DOWDY Dau S Female B 5 TN TN TN Hamilton County - Dist 5 James DOWDY Self M Male B 25 VA Works On Farm VA VA Betty DOWDY Wife M Female B 15 NC Keeping House --- NC
Lawrence County - Dist 12 Clark JONES Self M Male W 29 TN Manufacturer Of Cotton Goods TN TN Hattie JONES Wife M Female W 27 TN TN TN L. R. AMOS Other S Male W 24 TN Preacher TN TN Moriah DOWDY Other W Female B 50 TN Cook TN TN Robt. DOWDY Other S Male B 15 TN Servant TN TN James DOWDY Other S Male B 10 TN Servant TN TN Sallie DOWDY Other S Female B 6 TN TN TN
Houston County - Erin Henry DOWDY Self M Male B 30 TN Laborer --- TN Susun DOWDY Wife M Female B 28 TN Keeping House --- TN Alice DOWDY Dau S Female B 12 TN TN TN Lou DOWDY Dau S Female B 10 TN TN TN Emma DOWDY Dau S Female B 7 TN TN TN Eddie DOWDY Son S Male B 2 TN TN TN Charlie DOWDY Son S Male B 5M TN TN TN Mary DOWDY Sister S Female B 15 TN TN TN
Humphries County - Johnsonville L. D. PLANT Self M Male W 43 TN Works At Sawmill TN TN Margaret PLANT Wife M Female W 38 TN Keeping House VA NC John PLANT Son S Male W 18 TN Farm Laborer TN TN Hallie PLANT Dau S Female W 13 TN TN TN Jake PLANT Son S Male W 8 TN TN TN Reuben PLANT Son S Male W 6 TN TN TN Putnam PLANT Son S Male W 2 TN TN TN Elizabeth HARMIN MotherL W Female W 70 NC NC NC George DOWDY Other S Male B 24 TN Farm Laborer --- ---
Madison County - Jackson (note only Booker Dowdy is African American) Lucy E. DOWDY Self W Female W 55 AL Keeping House VA VA Florence DOWDY Dau S Female W 26 TN At Home VA AL Walter DOWDY Son S Male W 24 TN Merchant VA AL Lula DOWDY Dau S Female W 22 TN At Home VA AL Samuel DOWDY Son S Male W 19 TN Merchant VA AL Minnie DOWDY Dau S Female W 17 TN At Home VA AL Eugene DOWDY Son S Male W 13 TN At School VA AL Booker DOWDY Other S Male B 30 MO Servant MO MO
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Slave Narratives - WPA Oklahoma Writers Project I was born June 6, 1856 in Madison County, Georgia. Father was named Joe Dowdy and mother was named Mary Dowdy. There was 9 of us boys, George, Smith, Lewis, Henry, William, myself, Newt, James and Jeff. There was one girl and she was my twin, and her name was Sarah. My mother and father come from Richmond, Va., to Georgia. Father lived on one side of the river and my mother on the other wide. My father would come over ever week to visit us. Noah Meadows bought my father and Elizabeth Davis, daughter of the old master took my mother. They married in Noah Meadows' house. My mother was the cook in the Big House. They'd give us pot likker with bread crumbs in it. Sometimes meat, jest sometimes, very seldom. I liked black-eyed peas and still do till now. We lived in weatherboard house. Our parents had corded-up beds with ropes and us chillun slept on the floor for most part or in a hole bored in a log. Our house had one window jest big enough to stick your heat out of, and one door, and this one door faced the Big House which was your master's house. This was so that you couldn't git out 'less somebody seen you. My job was picking up chips and keeping the calves and cows separate so that the calves wouldn't suck the cows dry. Mostly, we had Saturday afternoons off to wash. I was show boy doing the war, me and my sister 'cause we was twins. My mother couldn't be bought 'cause she done had 9 boys for one farm and neither my father, 'cause he was the father of 'em. I was religious and didn't play much, but I sho' did like to listen to preachings. I did used to play marbles sometimes. We jest wore shirts and nothing else both winter and summer. They was a little heavier in winter and that's all. No shoes ever. I had none till after I was set free. I guess I was almost 12 years old then. The overseer on our place was a large tall, black man. We had plenty poor white neighbors. They was one of our biggest troubles. They'd allus look in our window and door all the time. I saw slaves sold. I can see that old block now. My cousin Eliza was a pretty girl, really good looking. Her master was her father. When the girls in the big house had beaux coming to see 'em, they'd ask, "Who is that pretty gal?" So they decided to git rid of her right away. The day they sold her, will allus be remembered. They stripped her to be bid off and looked at. I wasn't allowed to stand in the crowd. I was laying down under a fig brush. The man that bought Eliza was from New York. The Negroes had made up nuff money to buy her off they self, but they wouldn't let that happen. There was a man bidding for her who was a Swedeland. He allus bid for the good looking cullud gals and bought 'em for his own use. He ask the man from New York, "Whut you gonna do with her when you git 'er?" The man from New York said, "None of your damn business, but you ain't got money nuff to buy 'er." When the man from New York had done bought her, he said. "Eliza, you are free from now on." She left and went to New York with him. Mama and Eliza both cried when she was being showed off, and master told 'em to shut up before he knocked they brains out. Iffen you didn't do nothing wrong, they whipped you now and then anyhow. I called a boy Johnny once and he took me 'hind the garden and poured it on me and made me call him master. It was from then on I started to fear the white man. I come to think of him as a bear. Sometimes fellows would be a little late making it in and they got whipped with a cow-hide. The same man whut whipped me to make me call him master, well, he whipped my mamma. He tied her to a tree and beat her unmerciful and cut her tender parts. I don't know why he tied her to that tree. The first time you was caught trying to read or write. you was whipped with a cow-hide, the next time with a cat-o-nine tails and the third time they cut the first jint offen your forefinger. They was very severe. You most allus got 30 and 9 lashes. They carried news from one plantation by whut they call relay. Iffen you was caught, they whipped you till you said, "Oh, pray Master!" One day a man gitting whipped was saying Oh pray master, Lord have mercy!" They'd say "Keep whipping that nigger Goddam him." He was whipped till he said, "Oh pray Master, I gotta nuff." Then they said, "Let him up now, 'cause he's praying to the right man." My father was the preacher and an educated man. You know the sermon they give him to preach? - Servant, Obey Your Master. Our favorite baptizing hymn was On Jordan's Stormy Bank I Stand. My favorite song is Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. Oh, them patrollers! They had a chief and he git 'em together and iffen they caught you without a pass and sometimes with a pass, they'd beat you. But iffen you had a pass, they had to answer to the law. One old master had two slaves, brothers, on his place. They was both preachers. Mitchell was a hardshell Baptist and Andrew was a Missionary Baptist. One day the patroller chief was rambling thoo' the place and found some letters writ to Mitchell and Andrew. He went to the master and said, "Did you know you had some niggers that could read and write?" Master said, "Ho, but I might have, who do you 'spect?" The patroller answered, "Mitchell and Andrew." The old master said, "I never knowed Andrew to tell me a lie 'bout nothing!" Mitchell was called first and asked could he read and write. He was scared stiff. He said, "Haw-sir." Andrew was called and asked. He said, "Yes-sir." He was asked iffen Mitchell could. He said, "Sho', better'n me." The master told John Arnold, the patroller chief, not to bother 'em. He gloried in they spunk. When the old master died, he left all of his niggers a home apiece. We had Ku Klux Klans till the government sent Federal officers out and put a stop to their ravaging and sent 'em to Sing Sing. Doing the war my father was carpenter. His young master come to him 'cause he was a preacher and asked him must he go to the front and my father told him not to go 'cause he wouldn't make it. He went on jest the same and when he come back my father had to tote him in the house 'cause he had one leg tore off. The Yankees come thoo', ransacked houses, leave poor horses and take fat ones and turn the poor ones in the corn they left. They took everthing they could. They cuss niggers who dodged 'em for being fools and make 'em show 'em everything they knowed whar was. Our old master was mighty old and him and the women folks cried when we was freed. He told us we was free as he was. I come to Oklahoma in 1906. I come out of that riot in 1906.
Some fellow knocked up a colored woman or something and we waded
right in and believe me we made Atlanta a fit place to live in.
It is one of the best cities in America. I think Abraham Lincoln was the greatest human being ever been on earth 'cepting the Apostle Paul. Who any better'n a man who liberated 4,000,000 Negroes? Some said he wasn't a Christian, but he told some friends once, "I'm going to leave you and may never see you again (and he didn't) so I'm going to take the Divine Spirit with me and leave it with you." Jeff Davis was as bloody as he could be. I don't lak him a'tall. But you know good things come from enemies. I don't even admire George Washington. White men from the south that will help the Negro is far and few between. Booker T. Washington was a great man. He made some blunders and mistakes, but he was a great man. He is the father of industrial education and you know that sho' is a great thing. The white folks was ignorant. You know the better you prepare yourself the better you act. Iffen they had put some sense in our heads 'stead of sticks on our heads, we'ud been better off and more benefit to 'em. I had something from within that made me fear God and taught me how to pray. People say God don't hear sinners pray, but he do. Everybody ought to be Christians so not to be lost. I work in real estate and can do a lot of work. I don't use no crutches and no cane and walk all the time, never hardly ride. I come in at 1 and 2 o'clock a. m. and get up between 8 and 9 a. m. 'cept Sundays, I get up at 7 or 8 a. m. so I can be ready to go to Sunday School. I cook for my own self all the time too. I am a Baptist and a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church. I am a trustee in my church too.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1870 Madison County Georgia Census HH 238. pg 15b 1880 Madiosn County GA Census (from GenWeb Archive) 1900 Madison County GA Census (from GenWeb Archive) DOUDY JOSEPH UNK AGE, GA, GA, GA DOWDY SAM 28 GA, GA, GA DOWDY ANN 66 GA, GA, GA DOWDY ELISABETH M. 41 GA, GA, GA
Some Georgia Slave Owners in 1850 Contributed by Edward E. Van Schaick Jr. http://www.ccharity.com/ National Archives microcopy T655, roll 7, the 1850 census of persons dying between June 1, 1849 and June 1, 1850, includes an index to deceased persons. However, it also includes a "supplementary List" of owners of deceased slaves. As the slave (owners) schedule to this census does not have an index, this list of names, reproduced below can be useful in identifying slave owners. (note: this person is from the 1850 Mortality Census. This would not be the entire list of Dowdy slaveowners in Georgia in 1850) Dowdy James 723 1850 Georgia Slave Schedule (owners) J.M. Dowdy of Ogelthorpe pg209
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graves County 1870 Mayfield, Graves Co. KY. census (sent by Denise Griswold jdgde@uswest.net) Allen J. Dowdy 25 blk.serv. b. KY land value 200
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unknown County "Slaveowners Daniel and Jane Clark signed the following
deed in 1800:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- African American Sailors in the Civil War (source: Howard University Research Project) Wesley Dowdy Naval Service Detailed Muster Records
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1880 CENSUS Franklin County - ED 104 Joseph HOLLAND Self M Male B 40 VA Farmer VA VA Fannie HOLLAND Wife M Female MU 40 VA Keeps House VA VA Samuel HOLLAND Son S Male B 15 VA Farm Hand VA VA Ella HOLLAND Dau S Female B 13 VA Farm Hand VA VA Sarah HOLLAND Dau S Female B 11 VA At Home VA VA Lavinia HOLLAND Dau S Female B 10 VA At Home VA VA Abraham HOLLAND Son S Male B 8 VA VA VA Elizabeth DOWDY Other S Female B 16 VA Farm Hand VA VA
Franklin County - ED 104 Julia Ann DOWDY Self M Female B 44 VA Farm Hand VA VA Susan E. DOWDY Dau S Female B 16 VA Farm Hand VA VA Martha J. DOWDY Dau S Female B 9 VA VA VA Mary F. DOWDY Dau S Female B 6 VA VA VA Fannie D. DOWDY Dau S Female B 10M VA VA VA
Franklin County - ED 104 Robert ENGLISH Self M Male B 43 VA Farmer VA VA Lucinda A. ENGLISH Wife M Female MU 39 VA Farm Hand VA VA Charles R. L. J. ENGLISH Son S Male B 12 VA Farm Hand VA VA John W. E. ENGLISH Son S Male B 10 VA Farm Hand VA VA Mollie E. M. Lee ENGLISH Dau S Female B 6 VA VA VA James T. D. ENGLISH Son S Male B 4 VA VA VA Almira B. M. H. ENGLISH Dau S Female B 1 VA VA VA Susan DOWDY MotherL W Female MU 53 VA Laundress VA VA
Bedford County - Liberty M. DOWDY Other W Female B 55 VA. Cook VA. VA. G.A. DOWDY Other S Female B 7 VA. VA. VA.
Nansemond County - Suffolk Catharine JONES Self W Female W 63 VA Keeping House VA VA G. P. COTHE Dau Female W 36 VA Millinesary VA VA Jessie JONES Son Male W 26 VA Clerk VA VA Martha LASSITER Niece Female W 25 VA Hand In Store VA VA Katy LASSITER Niece Female W 14 VA At School VA VA Ann ROBERSON Other Female W 20 VA Hand In Store VA VA Samuel DOWDY Other Male B 23 VA Laborer VA VA Sam RANSOM Other Male B 25 VA Laborer VA VA
Campbell County - Lynchburg William WALKER Self M Male B 38 VA Laborer VA VA Parmlia JONES Other S Female B 30 VA At Home VA VA Sallie WALKER Wife M Female B 25 VA Keeps House VA VA Hannah JONES Other S Female B 23 VA Works At Home VA VA John H. JONES Other S Male B 20 VA Laborer VA VA Willie JONES Other S Male B 13 VA Laborer VA VA Andrew JONES Other S Male B 9 VA VA VA Thomas DOWDY GSon S Male B 4 VA VA VA
Fauquier County - Center John BAILEY Self S Male MU 22 VA Farming VA VA Anna POLLARD Mother W Female MU 63 VA Keeps House VA VA William DOWDY Other S Male B 12 VA Servant VA VA George WASHINGTON Other S Male B 10 VA Servant VA VA
Fauquier County - Center Susan DOWDY Self W Female B 40 VA Keeps House VA VA Robert JOHNSON Son S Male B 22 VA Farm Hand VA VA Milly DOWDY Dau S Female B 19 VA At Home VA VA John DOWDY Son S Male B 18 VA Farm Hand VA VA Nannie DOWDY Dau S Female B 17 VA At Home VA VA Sarah DOWDY Dau Female B 14 VA At Home VA VA Beverly DOWDY Son S Male B 3 VA VA VA Frank BARBER GSon S Male B 5 VA VA VA
Princess Anne County - Pungo Randall DOWDY Self M Male B 29 VA Laborer VA VA Abi DOWDY Wife M Female B 29 VA Keeping House VA VA James W. DOWDY Son S Male B 7 VA VA VA Josephus DOWDY Son S Male B 4 VA VA VA William DOWDY Son S Male B 1 VA VA VA
Lunenburg County - Pleasant Grove Washington DOWDY Self M Male MU 59 VA Farmer VA VA Jane DOWDY Wife M Female MU 52 VA Keeping House VA VA Judy DOWDY Dau S Female MU 20 VA Works On Farm VA VA Abraham DOWDY Son S Male MU 14 VA VA VA Martha DOWDY Dau S Female MU 10 VA Works On Farm VA VA Mary DOWDY Dau S Female MU 3 VA VA VA Clem DOWDY Son M Male MU 24 VA Works On Railrd. VA VA Martha DOWDY DauL M Female MU 19 VA Keeping House VA VA William DOWDY Son S Male MU 19 VA Works On R.Road VA VA
Cumberland County - Hamilton William TAYLOR1 Self S Male B 16 VA Laborer VA VA John TAYLOR Brother S Male B 15 VA Laborer VA VA Sarah E. DOWDY Other S Female MU 11 VA Servant VA VA |
