SOLOMON DOWDY of Drew County Arkansas
African-American Ancestry

1. Unknown Dowdy of Drew County Arkansas
+Unknown

2. Solomon Dowdy, "member of a Dowdy slave family"

3. Samuel Dowdy lived in Mississippi

2. Samuel [Dowdy] Everett b. about 1834 "age 16 at the beginning of the Civil War [named changed from Dowdy when sold to a slaveowning family named Everett] conscripted into the [?Union] army as a hostler. When the war ended, Sam left Ashley County and went to MS to get Kate. They returned to his father's home [Drew Co] and eventually bought 400
acres of land.
+ Kate ________

3. Cal Everett
+Amanda Lucas, dau of Littie [Taggart] and Fred Lucas

4. Sam Everett b Oct 25, 1889
+ Willie DANIELS, the dau of Rosie PIERCESON and Alex Daniels.

Posting on Afrigenius-L mailing list website:

A History of Drew County, by Rebecca
>DeArmond, 1981.

Sam Everett was b Oct. 25, 1889, son of Amanda [Lucas] and Cal Everett.
Their other children were....
Amanda Lucas was the dau of Littie [Taggart] and Fred Lucas. Their other
children were....
Littie Taggart was the dau of Eliria Taggart [m Burl Wallace].
Littie and her mother were owned as slaves by the Taggart family.
Fred Lucas was a free Negro who came to Ark. after the Civil War.
Cal Everett was the son of Kate and Sam Everett.

Sam Everett's brother was Solomon Dowdy, a member of a Dowdy slave family.
Solomon Dowdy had one known son, Sam Dowdy, who lived in MS.
When Sam Everett was sold from the Dowdy family to the Everett family, his
last name was changed.
Sam was sixteen years old when the CW began and was conscripted into the
army as a hostler.

When the war ended, Sam left Ashley County and went to MS to get Kate.
They returned to his father's home [Drew Co] and eventually bought 400
acres of land.
Sam Everett [grandson of Sam Everett] m. Willie DANIELS, the dau of Rosie
PIERCESON and Alex Daniels.

Source: Posting on Afrigenius-L mailing list website

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