Alexander Johnston McDowell

1788 - 1871  (83 years)

• Name	Alexander Johnston McDowell  [1, 2]
  Birth	1788	New London Crossroads, Chester, Pennsylvania   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1789  [4]
  Death	6 Dec 1871	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [3, 5]
  Burial	Union Cemetery, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [6]
  Person ID	I20981	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Dr. John McDowell,   b. 1750, Cecil County, Maryland d. 1 Jan 1825, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Martha Johnston,   b. New London Crossroads, Chester, Pennsylvania
  Marriage	New London Crossroads, Chester, Pennsylvania   [3]
  Family ID	F12354	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Sheldon,   b. Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 1843
  Marriage	19 Jul 1814	Jefferson County, Ohio   [2, 7]
  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."
  Children	+ 1. Lydia Lucretia McDowell,   b. 4 Jul 1825, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio d. 24 Dec 1904, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F12481	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S2984] Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, on familysearch.org., death certificate of his daughter Lucretia. [S4430] U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, on ancestry.com. [S2988] "The McDowell Family." Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume, 1899, ed. William Henry Egle. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1900. [S2231] 1870 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com. [S4431] Find a Grave page for Alexander J McDowell., year only. [S4431] Find a Grave page for Alexander J McDowell. [S2849] Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, on ancestry.com.