Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 
1887, Jessamine Co.

SAMUEL W. McDOWELL, only son of William and Henrietta (Simpson)
McDowell, of Jessamine County, was born August 12, 1860.  July 5, 1881, 
he married Miss Georgia Allin, of Jackson County, Mo., daughter of 
Benjamin and Jennie (Taylor) Allin, the mother a native of Anderson 
County, Ky., and the father of Mercer County, Ky.  William McDowell was
born August 11, 1829, and his wife August 12, 1831; the latter died 
October 18, 1879.  Samuel W.'s grandfather, Samuel McDowell, was a 
native of Virginia, came to Kentucky about 1800 and was in the war of 
1812.  William McDowell was in the Mexican war.  Samuel W. McDowell 
settled on his present place on the Union Mills Pike in Marble Creek 
District, six miles east of Nicholasville, where he has twenty-four and 
a half acres.  He has two children: Garland and Samuel, and he and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Church.

McDowell Simpson Allin Taylor
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Anderson-KY Mercer-KY Jackson-MO VA

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