Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Dowdy, John L. unknown - 
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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
The Dowdy Family.

  John L. Dowdy, head of this family, moved to this section from Effingham
County in 1827 and settled in what was then Telfair County near where the
present town of Rhine is. He married Gordy Ann Anderson, and they were the
parents of: J. Richard, who married Polly Ryals; Joe, who married Roxie Ryals;
Joe was a Confederate soldier and lost his life at Petersburg, Virginia. Bill
married, first, Nancy Pitts, second, Nancy Musselwhite, and third, Catherine
McDaniel. Hezzie married Creasy Pitts; he was also a Confederate soldier. Mart
L. married, first, a Miss Musselwhite, and second, Polly Rainey. Jack R. married
Betsy Jane Marchant. Mary married a Lambard.

  Hezzie, son of John L., married Creasy Yawn, and their children were:
Elizabeth, who married Louis C. Burnham; Tom, who married Martha Tomlin; Nan,
who married Frank Hilliard; Sara, who married, first, Jim Brown, and next, John
L. Dowdy, Jr.; Uria, who married Lula Yancey; Alice, who married Wesley
Thompson; Bill, who married Ida Reaves; Emma, who married George Coley; Hezzie,
who married Beckie Dowdy; J. R. never married.


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