When Vernon Leroy Gowdy was born on January 21, 1901, in Mississippi, his father, Lon, was 23 and his mother, Lena, was 30. He had three sons and four daughters with Virgie May Frazier between 1923 and 1939. He died on December 31, 1994, in Bristow, Oklahoma, at the age of 93.
Source: S167 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1940 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627; Repository: #R1
Source: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 25 February 2018), memorial page for Vernon Leroy Gowdy, Sr (21 Jan 1901–31 Dec 1994), Find A Grave Memorial no. 19543567, citing Magnolia Memorial Cemetery, Bristow, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA ; Find A Grave: Memorial #19543567
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Vernon by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Vernon: