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See Connie Perkins Website "Dowdy X-Change" for more comprehensive coverage of Arkansas abstracts Conway County Arkansas Civil War Records, 3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment , Union Company "L" (source: Donnie Pickard) Dowdy, Isaac, Pvt - enlisted 27 Jul 1864 at Lewisburg, AR.
Height 5' 3", Dowdy, William E, Pvt - enlisted 27 Jul 1864 at Lewisburk,
AR. Height 5' 6", (note: Lewisburg AR no longer exists. It refused to pay for the railroad to go through it, so it eventually became absorbed by the town that did pay, Morilton AR on the Arkansas River in Conway County) Garland County Arkansas Drew County Arkansas Phillips County Arkansas Randolph County Arkansas
White County Arkansas William T. Dowdy, a sharpshooter in the late war, came to White County in 1855 with his father, who bought 320 acres of wild land and commenced improving it, and cleared up forty or fifty acres before the war. His father, Andrew J. Dowdy, was a native of North Carolina and came to Tennessee when he was a young man, where he was married, in 1835, to Sarah Sutherland, of Tennessee origin, and a daughter of Thomas Sutherland. After his marriage he was employed as overseer on a plantation for thirteen years. He was the father of three children: Anna E. (afterward Mrs. Barger), William T. (our subject) and James S. (deceased). William T. owes his nativity to Western Tennessee, being born in 1839, and spending his younger days in that State. He was married in White County, in 1860, to Emeline E. Barger, a native of Tennessee, and who died on December 10, 1860. He was married the second time on April 17, 1866, to Elizabeth Sessums, also of Tennessee. They are the parents of four children, two of whom are still living: Richard A. (editor of the Economist at Searcy, Ark.) and James A. Mr. Dowdy enlisted in 1861 for twelve months, and afterward for four years or during the war, in Company D, of the Thirty-first Arkansas Infantry, and was one of the Confederate sharpshooters who did such valuable service for the Confederate cause. He took an active part in the battles of Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga and a number of others, and was taken prisoner on July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga., and then to Camp Chase, Ohio, when he was released on parole, February 12, 1865, and went to Richmond, where he received a furlough. He then went to Western Tennessee, where he remained until the close of the war. He then returned home and has since engaged in farming. He owns a farm of 200 acres, with sixty-five acres under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Dowdy is also connected with the County Wheel. of which he has been chaplain since first entering the society. He is also a constituent of the Centre Hill Lodge No. 114, of the Masonic order. Mrs. Dowdy was a daughter of Richard J. and Rachel (Little) Sessums. Mr. Sessums was born in North Carolina in 1805 and died in 1863. He was married in 1833, and was the father of five children. Yell County Arkansas 1868 Voter List Some Arkansas Marriages 1851-1900 C. C. McGLASSON m. MARTHA J. DOWDY 25 Jun 1878 Craighead AR
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