George Richard McDowell
George Richard McDowell was born in 1846, the second of the children of Eli B. McDowell and Mary Ann Milliron of the Summerville district of Jefferson County. His mother died in 1856, when he was ten, and his father married a second Mary Ann, a Miss Alexander. He served in the Civil War in Company L of the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry, a regiment that fought around Suffolk and Petersburg and rode with Sheridan at the end.
He married Martha Mae Dunham, born in 1846 like himself, and they raised eight children in Warsaw Township: Frank Lewis, Mary Lavina, Etna Gertrude, Elizabeth Adella, George Calvin, Adam, Myron Truman and Mattie May. His daughter Etna married the lumberman William Silvis and died young in 1899. George McDowell died in 1923 and is buried in Bethel Geer Cemetery, Warsaw Township, under a low granite block with a bronze veteran's marker, cut GEORGE McDOWELL, 1846-1923, CO. L 11 PA. CAV. Martha lies beside him; she died in 1938.
Parents
Mary Ann Milliron (1822-1856)
Eli B. McDowell (1819-1891)
Children
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