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Family: Alexander Johnston McDowell / Mary Sheldon (F12481)

• Male Alexander Johnston McDowell

  
  

  Birth	1788	New London Crossroads, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Death	6 Dec 1871	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
  Burial		Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
  Marriage	19 Jul 1814  [1, 2]	Jefferson County, Ohio  [1, 2]
  Father	Dr. John McDowell | F12354 Group Sheet
  Mother	Martha Johnston | F12354 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Mary Sheldon

  
  

  Birth		Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Death	1843
  Burial		Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
  Father	Roderick Sheldon | F13860 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Sheldon | F13860 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female + Lydia Lucretia McDowell

  
  

  Birth	4 Jul 1825	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
  Death	24 Dec 1904	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Burial		Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
  Spouse	Eli Todd Tappan | F12400
  Marriage	4 Feb 1851	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio

  
  

• Notes

  U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com, indexes the 30 Aug 1814 issue of the American Mercury of Hartford, Connecticut, which reported that Alexander McDowell and Mary Sheldon married in Steubenville, Ohio in August 1814, and that she was a daughter of "the late Roderick of Hartford."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2849] Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, on ancestry.com. [S4430] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com.