From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:44 AM To: Nancy Trice Subject: Log.Cabin.1901.11.09.Harrison.NEWS Excerpts November 9 1901 Harrison-Fayette-Bourbon County KyArchives News Log Cabin Saturday Vol. 6 No. 45 Pg. 3 Col. 3 Dr. McDowell Dead Dr. Hervey McDowell died at his home on Main Street in Cynthiana on 6 Nov 1901 of Bright's disease. Age 66 years, 6 months and 20 days. Born in Fayette Co. on 16 Apr 1835 to John Lyle McDowell, a veteran of War of 1812 and Nancy McDowell, formerly Miss Vance, both natives of Fayette Co. His grandfather, Jas. McDowell was in Ensign in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and emigrated from Rockbridge Co. VA to Fayette Co. KY at an early date. Dr. McDowell's great grandfather, Col. Samuel McDowell was at Braddock's defeat; was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War; was the first Circuit Judge of KY when the present state was a judicial district of Virginia; was a member from Mercer Co. in the first Constitutional Congress which met in Danville in 1869 in the historic buildings which afterwards wasused by the Danville Theological Seminary and which was sold last week to Central University. He was Chairman of that convention which framed the constitution under which Kentucky was admitted to the union. Dr. McDowell's mother, Nancy Vance, was the daughter of James Vance, a native of Northern Ireland, who located on a farm in Fayette Co. Dr. McDowell was raised on a farm in Fayette Co. that was part of a tract of land granted to his grandfather after the Revolution and received his earlier education in the county schools and at Lexington. He took a course in the Western Military School at Drennon Springs, Henry County, while James G. Blaine was a professor in that institution. In 1856 he graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute at Frankfort and in the fall of that year began the study of medicine under Drs. Skillman and Dudley at Lexington. He also attended medical lectures at Transylvania University and in 1857 entered the Missouri Medical College in which his kinsman, Dr. Jos. Nash McDowell, was professor of surgery. Graduating the next year he located in Cynthiana to practice his profession. In 1861 he recruited Company F in Col. Roger W. Hanson's Second Kentucky Confederate Infantry, the famous "Orphans' Brigade." He was elected captian of that company which was made up of 89 men, nearly all from Harrison Co. Of this number three officers and twelve privates died of disease. Prof. N. F. Smith and Mrs. J. A. Remington are the only surviving members of CO. F. in this county. For four years he saw service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. After the battles of Atlanta, where he was wounded, his regiment was mounted and covered the retreat before Sherman's march to Savannah. He was wounded no less than five times at Murfreesboro, being there with Breckenridge's division in the gallant charge in which Col. Hanson fell, and he received another wound at Ft. Donelson, he was made a prisoner there and remained in Camp Chase and Johnston's Island for six months, being exchanged at Vicksburg in Sept. 1862. He was also in the battles of Huntsville, Jackson, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Dalton, Dallas, Kenesaw mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Utau Creek and Camden. For gallant conduct he was promoted to Major after the battle of Chickamauga, and to Lt. Colonel after the engagement at Jonesboro, where he was again captured. The war over he returned to Cynthiana in 1865, and the following year attended a course of medical lectures in St. Louis in which city he practiced his profession until 1869. On Oct 26 he married his second cousin, Miss Louise Irvine McDowell, a daughter of Judge Alexander McDowell of St. Louis, previously a planter of Alabama and a son of Samuel McDowell of Mercer Coutny. He returned to Cynthiana at the close of 1869. He is survived by wife, two daughters: Mrs. Samuel Steel of Frankfort and Mrs. C. B. Ross of Lexington and five sons: Rev. Hervey McDowell of Madison Co.; Dr. Marshall McDowell of Cynthiana; Sebastian McDowell of Havana, Cuba; Edward McDowell of Memphis, TN; Joe Desha McDowell of Cynthiana. He had five deceased sons (not named) and one deceased daughter; Anna Mary, who died in 1894. He was buried in Battle Grove. Log Cabin 9 Nov 1901 Saturday Vol. 6 No. 45 Pg. 3 Col. 5 Deaths Elder Mordecai Wells, 75, a veteran of Mexican war, died in Mt. Olivet on Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Price, wife of W. S. Price, died at her home near Cynthiana yesterday. She is survived by husband and eight children (not named). Buried in Paris. Mrs. J. Irvin Anderson, formerly Miss Kate Sutton, died of pneumonia at her home near Leesburg Tuesday. Buried at Jacksonville. Her daughter, Pauline, died last week. Mrs. Mary Beale, nee Tucker, wife of Dr. A. J. Beale, died of pneumonia at her home on Main street in Cynthiana on Sunday. Age 72. She was a native of Bourbon Co. Her first husband was Wm. Elliott. She is survived by second husband, Dr. A. J. Beale and three daughters by her second husband: Mrs. C. A. Renaker of Cynthiana; Mrs. Henry Carr of Falls Valley Indian Territory and Mrs. Frank Gray of Ft. Worth Texas. Buried in Battle Grove. Mrs. Hattie Levescue Garnett, died 8 Nov at the home of her brother, Dr. H. C. Levescue. She was the youngest daughter of Samuel and Sarah Levescue, and was age 50. In Apr. 1873 she married A. J. Garnett of Robinson Station and they were married for 17 years. Burial at Battle Grove. 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