Honor Elizabeth (Davis) Dowling (1807 - abt. 1879)

Born 18 May 1807 in Wayne County, Georgia

Ancestors

Wife of Jabez Lazarus Dowling — married 8 Apr 1822 in Wayne, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died about Nov 1879 at about age 72 in McDuffie, Wayne County, Georgia

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Biography

Honor was born in 1807. Honor Davis ... She passed away about 1880. ^[1]

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 Book: Dowling Family of the South by R A Dowling 1959 p 08 "Young Jabez Lazarus was still single when he left his Salkehatchie birthplace. But during the short residence of his parents in Wayne County, Georgia, this twenty-two year old Dowling was captivated by the fourteen-year old daughter of Wayne pioneer Benjamin Davis. Beautiful Honor Eliza Davis had good reason to be attracted by this slender South Carolinian; for he had already earned the bars of a Lieutenant in the 335th Militia. (They married April 14, 1822, in her home county. She had been born in Wayne, December 18, 1807, and would live past her seventy-third birthday. Their burial place of this couple is unknown thought they are probably in "Dowling Cemetery" on the banks of the Satilla, east of Hickox, Georgia. This branch of the family donated the land."

"Five years after Jabez L married Eliza the "History of Ware County" tells us that he was one of the first four men in that huge old county to win lottery land. For it was about this time that the three younger sons of Jabez and the elder Dowling settled in Ware County, in an area that was made part of Pierce in 1858; later this service earned Eliza a pension. Jabez Lazarus died on March 4, 1865."

p10 

"Darling Dowling, the fifth and last son of Jabez, just was old enough to remember his father's absence from the Salkehatchie area during the War of 1812. For this lad had been born in 1801. His Christian name might be a clue to mother Rebecca's maiden name; for Darling is a well-known surname in the Atlantic Coastal area."

"After the previously mentioned emigration from South Carolina, Darling married Benjamin Davis's daughter, Sophie; they married August 17, 1824, in Wayne County, Georgia/ Father, Jabez performed the ceremony. The reader will remember that Sophie's sister married Darling's brother.  In the 1830's Darling joined several other of the Dowling boys of that area in the militia units organized to handle the emergency created by nearby Indian uprisings. He and brother, James II and nephew David were paid at Waresboro on April 11, 1839, for such service. Also, wife Sophie later was awarded land for this."

"In 1841 Darling and Sophie joined High Bluff Primitive Baptist Church. Ten years later the last of their twelve children had been born. Few of the children had married by then; much meat was needed. . .  Father Darling was pursuing a deer one day, when glancing back he failed to see a low-hanging limb! He struck it with such force that it killed him instantly. His tombstone may be seen among the giant old cedar-trees at High Bluff in the western edge of present-day Brantley County, Georgia. Sophie lived almost forty years after this event; she died about the age of eighty in 1890, and is buried beside Mr. Dowling. She had been born in Georgia though father Benjamin and Mrs Davis were South Carolinians."

Benjamin Davis Early Pioneer in Wayne County, Georgia 31 May 1817 • Wayne County, Georgia Benjamin Davis guardian for Jesse Bird Benjamin Davis receives a Gift of Deed from Jesse Bird Realty and Personality as appointed Guardian for Jesse Bird & Lawful Attorney Bk: BCD pp54-55

Land for Benjamin Davis Wayne County, Georgia 04 Mar 1819 • Wayne County, Georgia Grantor William A Dunham purchased May 1814 and sells to Grantee Benjamin Davis 04 Mar 1819 50 acres in Wayne Co GA Deed Bk B p 186 also Bks B,C,D

Wayne County Georgia Land Estate Records 1813-1820 pp 109-111 images 61-63 16 Nov 1820 Benjamin Davis purchases the following from the estate sale of John Grantham 4 Trace Chains 1 D of D 1.25 1 S of D 1.00

https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?page=1&place=392424&rmsId=TH-1961-30377-23640-85&imageIndex=60&singleView=true

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Mike Young, Monday, October 27, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• Dodd, Jordan. Georgia Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997. Original data: Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Georgia.

• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, Page 1, Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 78, Year Ending May 31, 1880.

• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33988724
•  Book: The Dowling Family of the South by R A Dowling 1959 https://www.dowling.one-name.net/ex/Book-Dowling-Family-of-the-South-v1959-Pages-0-20.pdf