Catherine McDowell was my forth great grandmother. She was born about 1784, in Virginia. How Catherine arrived in North Carolina from Virgina would only be conjecture. Here is where she met Micajah Brown and married October 24, 1807 in Wilkes, North Carolina. Shortly after their marriage Micajah and Catherine moved to Kentucky and settled there long enough to have four children. After which, they made their home in Missouri, settling in Ray County, along the Missouri River. Four more children were added to the family, making a total of seven boys and one girl. According to land records Micajah and Catherine owed two sections of land, an eighty and a forty acre plot, both, just north of the river. Micajah died around 1832. The children are mostly grown and married with their own families. According to the 1850 census, Catherine has moved to Pettis, Platte County, Missouri and is living with two of her sons. The following consecutive lines in the census are the names of her children, their wives and husbands and her grandchildren. In the 1860 census she is still in Pettis. One of her sons has died and she is living with her daughter in law and her grandchildren. This is the last census there is any record of her. I believe when she died they returned her to Ray County to be buried by her husband. No record of burial or a headstone has ever been found. Their daughter, Malinda, was my third great grandmother. She married Robert H. "Bob" Lee. I believe Bob was Native American as well.
Catherine McDowell was my forth great grandmother. She was born about 1784, in Virginia. How Catherine arrived in North Carolina from Virgina would only be conjecture. Here is where she met Micajah Brown and married October 24, 1807 in Wilkes, North Carolina. Shortly after their marriage Micajah and Catherine moved to Kentucky and settled there long enough to have four children. After which, they made their home in Missouri, settling in Ray County, along the Missouri River. Four more children were added to the family, making a total of seven boys and one girl. According to land records Micajah and Catherine owed two sections of land, an eighty and a forty acre plot, both, just north of the river. Micajah died around 1832. The children are mostly grown and married with their own families. According to the 1850 census, Catherine has moved to Pettis, Platte County, Missouri and is living with two of her sons. The following consecutive lines in the census are the names of her children, their wives and husbands and her grandchildren. In the 1860 census she is still in Pettis. One of her sons has died and she is living with her daughter in law and her grandchildren. This is the last census there is any record of her. I believe when she died they returned her to Ray County to be buried by her husband. No record of burial or a headstone has ever been found. Their daughter, Malinda, was my third great grandmother. She married Robert H. "Bob" Lee. I believe Bob was Native American as well.
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