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b: Upshur Co WVA; d: Mt Carmel; s/of Oliver Dowell (1834 VA-10 Mar 1859 WVA) & Mary F Wattles; m1: 1879 Mary Zella [Molly] Pierce (26 Dec 1861 IN-27 Sep 1945 LA CA); m2: Nora Weaver? (did she m2 ? Cowan?); res: 1900 Vincennes-Knox Co IN; ch: Claude (Jul 1881 IN) & Blanche (Aug 1883 IN) & Minnie (Apr 1886 IN m: by 1910 Charles Thistlethwaite) & Charles (Jan 1889 IN); note: Mary res: 1910 Adams-Hamilton Co IN & 1920-30 Decatur-Macon Co IL as a widow