hurleyjd
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My daughter has been healing from back surgery at our house. She has access to the genealogy records in Salt Lake City Utah.
Most people search their fathers side and totally ignore the mothers side. My mother' maiden name was Dowdy. My grandfathers name was Henry Marion
and his fathers name would have been Green Dowdy. The daughter was busy searching and looked at me and said do you know anything about Green.
The only thing I knew that he served in the Civil War. She the said Green was fathered by Thomas Dowdy with a slave woman he owned. I said I did know that. She kept reading and looked over at me and said, " I bet that was why you had an urge to drink at the colored fountain located in the basement of the courthouse." I thought I drinked there because I was just being ornery. Looking back I suspect there will be alot of surprises in the family tree.
Most people search their fathers side and totally ignore the mothers side. My mother' maiden name was Dowdy. My grandfathers name was Henry Marion
and his fathers name would have been Green Dowdy. The daughter was busy searching and looked at me and said do you know anything about Green.
The only thing I knew that he served in the Civil War. She the said Green was fathered by Thomas Dowdy with a slave woman he owned. I said I did know that. She kept reading and looked over at me and said, " I bet that was why you had an urge to drink at the colored fountain located in the basement of the courthouse." I thought I drinked there because I was just being ornery. Looking back I suspect there will be alot of surprises in the family tree.