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Note: N1206 Peter Ouzts I and His Descendants, by Hortense Woodson, 1949, pp. 103, 105
ABCD's of Edgefield Genealogy 1995, p. 34
Franklin GA US Census 1850
Edgefield SC US Census L/w Elizabeth - Nephew 1870,1880,1900, 7C/3L 1910
He came to Edgefield in 1866. He was a farmer and his greatest pleasure was the fox hunt.
Close to his aunt Savannah Timmerman.
An old and honored citizen of the McKendree section has passed off the stage of activity. He played his part in affairs of life humbly, peacefully and without great noise or ostentation. S. W. McDowell (Wright Mack) was born September 29, 1848, and was in his 67th year. He lived and died in the home of his grand parents which is in a stone’s throw of the site of the first McKendree church. Mr. McDowell was a son of J. T. McDowell and Elizabeth Ouzts, and great grandson of old Peter Ouzts who immigrated from Germany just before the Revolutionary war. In 1871 he married Miss Mahala Parkman, daughter of the late Jefferson Parkman, who survives him. From this union three children were born, Messrs. Rufus and Tolbert McDowell and Mrs. Fannie Pardue, all of whom are living in the McKendree section and have families. In the later years of the eighties and under the preaching of the late Rev. R. P. Franks, the pastor of McKendree, and much loved, Mr. McDowell was converted and became a christian and member of that church, and needless to say remained a consistent member to the time of his death. For the last several years Mr. McDowell’s suffering had been great, continued and often excruaiating. He bore it with patience and christian fortitude. An affiction of a complicated nature - asthma, rheumatism and an affection of the heart had kept him confined to the house for the last three years.
After a couple days’ lapse into unconsciousness he passed peacefully away at 9 p.m. February 15, 1915. On the following afternoon his remains were interred at the old family burying ground on the premises in the presence of a large number of relatives and neighbors. In the absence of his pastor, The Rev. Mr. Brabham, Mr. J. M. Shaffer conducted the funeral services. The beautiful cross of hyacinnths and violets that was gracefully laid upon the shapely mound expressed that all was done that loving hands or human kindness could do. W.D.O. The Edgefield Advertiser (SC), February 24, 1915.
Find A Grave Memorial# 95469701
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