James Ferguson Dowdell
Born: November 26, 1818
Birthplace: Jasper County, Georgia
Father: Lewis Jefferson Dowdell 1785 – 1848
Mother: Elizabeth Clay Farley 1800 – 1826
Wife: Sarah Hamilton Render 1822 – 1887
(Buried: Pine Hill Cemetery, Auburn, Alabama)
Children:
Dr. Algernon George Dowdell 1843 – 1909
(Buried: Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Alabama)
Sarah Elizabeth "Bettie" Dowdell Read 1845 – 1905
(Buried: Rosemere Cemetery, Opelika, Alabama)
Judge James Render Dowdell 1847 – 1921
(Buried: Lafayette Cemetery, Lafayette, Alabama)
Louis Arthur Dowdell 1849 – 1931
(Buried: Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Texas)
Susan Agnes "Susie" Dowdell Brown 1851 – 1880
(Buried: Talbotton City Cemetery, Talbotton, Georgia)
Pattie Dowdell Driver 1855 – 1905
Martha Catherine Dowdell 1855 – 1905
William Thomas Dowdell 1857 – 1858
Joshua Silas Dowdell 1860 – 1925
(Buried: Lafayette Cemetery, Lafayette, Alabama)
Education:
1840: Graduated from Randolph – Macon College
Occupation before War:
Attorney and Methodist Minister in Chambers County, Alabama
1853 – 1859: United States Representative from Alabama
President of Oak Bowery Female College
Professor of Ancient Languages at East Alabama College
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Alabama State Secession Convention
1861 – 1864: Colonel of 37th Alabama Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Iuka, Mississippi
1863: Captured during the Vicksburg, Mississippi Campaign
1863: Unsuccessful Candidate for Governor of Alabama
1864: Retired as Colonel on August 31, 1864 due to bad health
Occupation after War:
President of Alabama Female College
Died: September 6, 1871
Place of Death: Auburn, Alabama
Age at time of Death: 52 years old
Burial Place: Pine Hill Cemetery, Auburn, Alabama
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