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Note: le Elizabeth (Betsy) Wiseman McDowell is our ancestor in Generation 4. She was Abner Sr and Isabell biiseman's fifth child and oldest daughter, and is my great- great grandmother. This Elizabeth Wiseman was born in 1810 in Estill County, Kentucky and died there some time after her 70th birthday, actual date unknown. She is buried in the McDowell Cemetery on White Oak Creek in Estill County. Elizabeth married Samuel McDowell Jr. a neighbor, on 4/24,1833 when she was 23 years old, and had six children by him before his death in 1849. Those si.x children were half-brothers and sisters to the Isaac biiseman(5) from whom we are descended. After McDowell died the widow Elizabeth lived on in Estill County for at least thirty years more, through 1880 or later. She was gone by 1900. Both Elizabeth and Samuel McDowell are buried in the same grave, with a scribed stone monument that gives only their names, no dates. The McDowell graveyard is in the woods southeast of the White Oak Church of God, overlooking the old Wiseman home and Cool Springs cemetery. It is reached by State Route 89 about two miles north of Irvine to White Oak Creek, then about one and a half miles northeast up White Oak on paved rural highway 1705, then through a gate on the right and up a travelled road into the woods for a hundred yards or so. Elizabeth had two children before she married McDowell. Four years after her father Abner died, on 6/17, 1827 when Elizabeth was but 17 years old, she bore child Isaac; he was to become my grea - grandfather. This Isaac's younger brother Abner was born 11/30, 1830 when Elizabeth was 20. Other sources have said that Isaac was born in Louisville, Kentucky and Abner in Covington, Kentucky, but I have been unable to verify either of those locations. The identity of those two boys father was a family secret which I have been unable to solve (see Effie Wiseman's letter to Mrs Helen Fullenwider which I have copied into this genealogy). Elizabeth's matrimonial history is undeciferable at this late date because too many years have gone by. There is no one now left alive who remembers the facts. The brothers, Isaac and Abner, went by the name of McDowell until their teens, when they changed it to their mother's maiden name Wiseman. Because there were other Isaac Wisemans in this and other related families, I will refer to Elizabeth's oldest chiId from here on in this genealogy as Isaac Wiseman(5), or simply as Isaac(5) referring to Generation 5. His younger brother Abner will be similarly referred to as Abner Wiseman(5) or Abner(5) Elizabeth Wiseman McDowell’s other six (McDowell) children were: Isabell, b (c)1835 and gone before 1850. Elizabeth Jr, b 1838, married Pearson Richardson and later moved to Weber County, Utah. Samuel Jr, b.6/l840, who married Mary Elizabeth Cox 12/28, 1871. Samuel Jr crossed the plains, to California with our forebears Isaac Wiseman(5) and Abner(5), later returned to Estill County, married, taught school, went to school to become a medical doctor, and finally died in Elko, Nevada. Further details are in the section regarding the Nevada Wisemans. John b. 1842, who married Amanda Young 1/12, 1865. Molly (or Milly) Ann, b.1847, married William Harrison, and died 9/19, 1899 at age 52 James Banford, b 9/l849 who married Mary E Ballard 2/1, 1872. Samue1 McDowell Sr was born (c)18l0 and died in 1849 between thc ages of 40-50. His wife Elizabeth Wiseman McDowell, continued t.o live in Estill County, Kentucky for the rest of her life, which ended some time after 1880, when she was past 70. 1850 CENSUS Estill County, Kentucky, Roll M432_198, pg 56, Image 345, Dated 19 August 1850 Elizabeth McDowell, age 40, born in Kentucky Elizabeth McDowell, age 12, born in Kentucky Samuel McDowell, age 10, born in Kentucky John McDowell, age 8, born in Kentucky Milly Ann McDowell, age 3, born in Kentucky M_ _ _ _? McDowell, age 9 months, born in Kentucky 1860 CENSUS Estill County Kentucky, Family #282, Roll M653_365, pg 0, Image 161 Elizabeth McDowell, age 50, born in Kentucky Jno McDowell, age 17, born in Kentucky Milley McDowell, age 13, born in Kentucky Jas McDowell, age 11, born in Kentucky 1870 CENSUS Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky, Dated 18 August 1870, Family #235 Roll M953_459, pg 550, Image 360 Elizabeth McDowell, age 59, born in Kentucky Samuel McDowell, age 30, born in Kentucky James B McDowell, age 20, born in Kentucky Wm Harrison, age 25, born in Kentucky Milly Harrison, age 23, born in Kentucky John F Harrison, age 3, born in Kentucky Margaret E Harrison, age 7 months, born in Kentucky
Note: Information taken from "THE WISEMANS", Second Edition, 1992 by B.W. Venab
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