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The McDowell Genealogy

Harding Atlas McDowell

Harding McDowell

Harding Atlas McDowell and Evangeline Hawks

Evangeline Hawks

Evangeline Hawks

Harding Atlas McDowell and Evangeline Hawks

The Family of Harding Atlas McDowell and Evangeline Hawks.

Evangeline McDowell is the daughter of Daniel Porter Hawks and Roney Della Stanley.

Harding Atlas McDowell born July 18, 1920 and married Evangeline Hawks who was born Dec. 5, 1922 and died August 16, 1987. She was the daughter of Daniel Porter Hawks and Roney Della Stanley. They were married on Dec. 23, 1941.

  1. Harding Keith McDowell - born Feb. 5, 1944 and married Janet Stallings (born Nov. 29, 1949).
  2. Larry Jerome (Jerry) McDowell - born June 23, 1946 and married Dolores Ann Sloan (born Oct. 17, 1946).
  3. Carolyn Marie McDowell - born Jan. 26, 1956 and married Max Hillman Nance, Jr. (born March 23, 1954).

After the death of Evangeline Hawks McDowell in 1987, Harding Atlas McDowell married Mary (Polly) Westmoreland Lentz. She was the widow of Joe Lentz and was born in 1923. Harding and Polly were married on February 18, 1989 at Polly's daughter's home Laura Lentz Kirk in Raleigh, North Carolina.