+ (1st) Rachel (Hart?) b Mar
1778 d. 24 Mar 1836
2. William Dowdy b 1794-1804
(son of above? Is this William who m. Masy Roe?)
2 John Dowdy b 1800-1810
(son of above?)
2. James (Jimmy) Dowdy b 1810
+ (1st) Elizabeth Dorsett
3 Hezikiah Dowdy b 1835
3 Melissa Dowdy b 1837
3 Robert Dowdy b 1839
3 Sally Dowdy b 1841
3 Lawrence Dowdy b 1844
3 Dennis Dowdy b 1847
3 Emprien (f) Dowdy b 1849
+ (2nd) Mary Anne Burke 1865
Note: there is some confusion
regarding the order of wives and children because Eli Dowdy of
Chatham NC also married this Mary Anne Burke
3 John Robert Dowdy b 1866
3 Charles Dowdy
3 Rachel Elizabeth Dowdy
3 Nathan Dowdy
3 Eudora Dowdy
3 Ann Dowdy
3 Nannie Dowdy
2 Cornelius Allen Dowdy b
15 Jul 1815 d 5 Jan 1891 Moore NC
+ Franey Jones in 1838 dau
of David and Dorthy Jones b 9 Apr 1813 d 5 Mar 1878
3. Margaret Jane b 15
Nov 1839 Bensalem Twp Moore NC
+Enoch Lathan d 1919 Randolph
Co. NC
3. Rebecca Dowdy b 5 Nov 1841
not married d 28 Nov 1867 Moore NC
3. James Spinks Dowdy b 1
Jan 1850 Bensalem Twp Moore NC d 27 Sep 1920
+ Lucy Kennedy, dau of David
and Amy (Freeman) Kennedy b 25 Dec 1856
4. George Riley Dowdy
4. Martin Taylor Dowdy
4. William Henry Dowdy
4. Allen Cornelius Dowdy
4. John Matthews Dowdy
4. Minnie Lee Dowdy
4. David Astor Dowdy
+ (2nd wife) Rachel b 9 Nov
1811 d 18 Mar 1888
2 Archibald B. b 30
Dec 1840 d.25 May 1914 Moore NC
+Jennie b 1852 d 1905
2 Rachel Caroline b b 12 Jul
1844 not married. d. 17 Feb 1918 Moore NC
2 Janette b 1846
+ Levi Sheffield in 1866
Note: this 2nd family is
assumed from the 1860 Moore NC census household of James Dowdy
Sr.
James R. Dowdy