Elizabeth Jane (Dowdy) Isbell (1842-1933) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree

Elizabeth Jane (Jane) Isbell formerly Dowdy

Born 18 Oct 1842 in Lumpkin County, Georgia, USA

Ancestors

Daughter of Isaac Leander Columbus Dowdy and Minerva (Finley) Dowdy

Sister of Unknown Dowdy, Unknown Dowdy, Martin Lacy Dowdy, William Joseph Dowdy, Wesley Jefferson Dowdy, Winfield Scott Dowdy, Zachariah Taylor Dowdy and Isaac Leander Columbus Dowdy Jr.

Wife of Elijah Miller Isbell — married 2 Jan 1862 in Marshall County Alabama

Mother of William Joseph Isbell, Wesley Sherman Isbell, Sarah Isbell, John Isbell, Zacariah Isbell, Infant One Isbell, Infant Two Isbell, Manerva Isbell, Anora Isbell, Aurtha Isbell, Hazel Isbell, Elijah Isbell and [private son (1960s - unknown)]

Died 20 Jun 1933 at age 90 in Asbury, Marshall County, Alabama, USA

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Biography

Wife of Elijah Miller Isbell. Twin sister of William Joseph Dowdy.

Niece of John Findley (1808-1888) whose farm she and her husband inherited. John and Elmira Findley are buried nearby.

She went by Jane. Several references say Eliza Jane. "Little Liza Jane" was a popular folk song of the Civil War era. Name is given as Elizabeth Jane Dowdy Isbell in the Alabama Legislative Record, Nov. 30, 1923; History of Marshall County (1969) by Katherine McKinstry Duncan and Larry Joe Smith, p.121, and Alabama Life Magazine (Nov.-Dec. 1978), p.41.

In 1930, Jane Dowdy Isbell, then celebrating her 89th birthday was featured in the Birmingham News. In the article, the reporter interviewed Jane about her family's journey from Georgia. "Mrs Isbell emigrated to Alabama from Gwinnett Co, Georgia (sic) at the age of 9 with her father, Isaac Leander Dowdy and mother Minerva Finley Dowdy (sic, Isaac died in Georgia before the family moved to Alabama) and her grandfather, William Finley of Lumpkin County GA. They traveled in three covered wagons drawn by oxen. They settled first in Jackson County, thence moved to DeKalb County, and then moved to Marshall County, where she has since resided. Grandma Isbell tells the story that even in those early days she saw but one Indian on the way from Georgia and he was a trader. There were few cattle in North Alabama in those days, she said, and they brought with them six cows with calves, which formed the nucleus to many herds in that portion of the state."

Sources

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38979507

http://www.scislaw.com/genealogy/dowdy/branch1.html

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jane:

~6.25% Ben Dowdey : 23andMe + AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A660703 [compare], Ancestry member bcdal + Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T476282 [compare], FTDNA kit #798695
~1.56% ~3.12% L. Berry : 23andMe, GEDmatch AD2847954 [compare]
~0.78% Joe Cook : 23andMe, GEDmatch M801359 [compare]
~0.78% ~3.12% J. Edwards : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A132425 [compare], Ancestry member JaneEdwards43
~0.39% Tiffany (Brown) Vandeford : AncestryDNA