McDowell Genealogy

... our families through the years

The McDowell Genealogy

Cemetery Records - Pleasant Union United Church of Christ - Formerly UNION CHURCH, established 1890 - Randolph County, NC - Copyright © 1980 Written and edited by Larry Jerome (Jerry) McDowell, Harding Keith McDowell, and Harding Atlas McDowell. All rights reserved. [26 pages includes index and numbered diagram of the cemetery]

The McDowells of Northampton, Wake, Randolph, Guilford, and Davidson Counties (North Carolina) - © 1983 Written and edited by Harding Atlas McDowell, Harding Keith McDowell, and Larry Jerome (Jerry) McDowell. ISBN No. 0-9611818-1-8 All right reserved. [230 pages plus 31 pages of family pictures and a complete index of every name in the book]

I am descended from Adam and Eve and can prove it. These are my great grandparents through my Dad's mother Dovie Roxanna Morgan.

The tombstone for John McDowell, our first McDowell ancestor in Randolph County was finally located in the early 1980s. He is buried at Mt. Shepherd United Methodist Church. The church itself was not established at that time and based on the number of old tombstones in the church cemetery, the cemetery may have just been a local cemetery with no affiliation to the Methodist faith. Most of the families who came from Wake County seem to have had a Primitive Baptist background.

Micajah Jackson Family Bible information - original handwritten transcribed by granddaughter Hattie Jackson Nance. Typed copy transcribed by L. Jerry McDowell - January 3, 2008.