My 3X Great Grandfather
As you scroll through this family you will find the name spelled in many ways. DeWayne, Dewayne and Dowane (the most common)DOWANE is the correct spelling.
Morris met his wife Elizabeth Marshall while she was living in Fort Mackinack, Mackinac Island, Michigan with her parents William David and Fanny Ann Hawkins Marshall. They married there April 22, 1852. He was 25 and she was 14. They were married by the Fort Chaplin, John Obren. He was in the military for over 10 years.
ENLISTED-@ Fort Mackinac, Mich. for 5 years-Co. A, Infantry-MEXICAN WAR-1846-1848-In October of 1851 he reenlisted for 5 more years. By 1856 they were in the Washington Territory at Fort Steilacoom, Pierce, Washington, USA.
By 1857 they had moved to Bear River, Yuba County.
They were the parents of 10 known children. I recently found the 9th child from a newspaper announcement. A son born in March of 1879 which must be son Morris.
Children:
Amy Anne Dowane Harding-Born In Washington Territory
Fannie Mae Dowane-Born in Washington Territory
William Henry Dowane (went by DeWayne his entire life)-Born in Yuba at Camp Far West
Frederick George Dowane Sr.-Born at Camp Far West
Harriet "Hattie" Mariah Dowane Hackett Pittman-Born in Wheatland
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Morris Dowane-Born in Sutter
Rachel Valthie Dowane Muck-Born in California
Sarah Frances Dowane Bradshaw-Camp Far West
Unknown Male Dowane-February 25, 1879-per newspaper article Sacramento Daily Union-March 3, 1879. I believe this is actually Morris de LayFayette Jr. listed below. He probably did not know his correct date of birth. His sisters did not know their dates of birth and had to write letters to the state to find out.
Morris de Layfayette Dowane Jr.
I wondered why Amy Dowane Harding was buried in the Wheatland Cemetery with her parents and siblings and not in the Harding Plot in Peoria Cemetery. An old map shows that this plot was called the Harding Plot. Richard Harding must have purchased it when Amy died and then turned it over for the use of the Dowane family after he remarried.
OBITUARY
DOWANE, MORRIS DEL.
Daily Appeal - 12/13/1910, p4 - Certainly Had A War Record - M. D. Dowane, a Mexican war veteran, died yesterday at his home in Wheatland. He was a native of Wayne county, Ohio, 82 years of age. He leaves three sons, William, Fred and Morris and three daughters, Mrs. William Bradshaw, Mrs. Hattie Hackett and Lizzie Dowane. The funeral will be conducted on Wednesday from his late home at 2 p.m. The same will be in charge of Undertaker Bevan. - The deceased was an old time friend of R. E. Bevan and wrote him as follows under date of August 7, 1910. - "I want to give you a little of my war record. I was in the Mexican war for three years. From there I went to Fort McKenzie, Michigan, was there three years and my regiment was sent to Washington Territory, and was there three years fighting Indians. Left there when my time was out after serving ten years. I am now receiving the magnificent sum of twenty dollars per month. I want you to show this to the Appeal and let them publish it. My father and one of my grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war. My father went as a drummer boy at fourteen and at fifteen they gave him a musket. This gun which my father used in the Revolution I left in Ohio when I went to the Mexican war. My father was sixteen when he was discharged in 1783."
His foot stone reflects the year that he died as 1911-which is incorrect. There are many errors on the Dowane Family stones leading me to believe that the stone carver had issues or that they were placed at a later date by family members who did not know the correct dates. I have tried to locate records for the headstones and foot stones and who may have placed them..but have not been successful.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with additional information or questions. I would love to find Morris's father and Grandfather and their histories.
Thank you to Susan James for an enormous amount of information sent my way on the children in this family and to Shirley Mitchell for her never ending research and transcriptions of numerous letters written by the daughters of Morris and Elizabeth.
My 3X Great Grandfather
As you scroll through this family you will find the name spelled in many ways. DeWayne, Dewayne and Dowane (the most common)DOWANE is the correct spelling.
Morris met his wife Elizabeth Marshall while she was living in Fort Mackinack, Mackinac Island, Michigan with her parents William David and Fanny Ann Hawkins Marshall. They married there April 22, 1852. He was 25 and she was 14. They were married by the Fort Chaplin, John Obren. He was in the military for over 10 years.
ENLISTED-@ Fort Mackinac, Mich. for 5 years-Co. A, Infantry-MEXICAN WAR-1846-1848-In October of 1851 he reenlisted for 5 more years. By 1856 they were in the Washington Territory at Fort Steilacoom, Pierce, Washington, USA.
By 1857 they had moved to Bear River, Yuba County.
They were the parents of 10 known children. I recently found the 9th child from a newspaper announcement. A son born in March of 1879 which must be son Morris.
Children:
Amy Anne Dowane Harding-Born In Washington Territory
Fannie Mae Dowane-Born in Washington Territory
William Henry Dowane (went by DeWayne his entire life)-Born in Yuba at Camp Far West
Frederick George Dowane Sr.-Born at Camp Far West
Harriet "Hattie" Mariah Dowane Hackett Pittman-Born in Wheatland
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Morris Dowane-Born in Sutter
Rachel Valthie Dowane Muck-Born in California
Sarah Frances Dowane Bradshaw-Camp Far West
Unknown Male Dowane-February 25, 1879-per newspaper article Sacramento Daily Union-March 3, 1879. I believe this is actually Morris de LayFayette Jr. listed below. He probably did not know his correct date of birth. His sisters did not know their dates of birth and had to write letters to the state to find out.
Morris de Layfayette Dowane Jr.
I wondered why Amy Dowane Harding was buried in the Wheatland Cemetery with her parents and siblings and not in the Harding Plot in Peoria Cemetery. An old map shows that this plot was called the Harding Plot. Richard Harding must have purchased it when Amy died and then turned it over for the use of the Dowane family after he remarried.
OBITUARY
DOWANE, MORRIS DEL.
Daily Appeal - 12/13/1910, p4 - Certainly Had A War Record - M. D. Dowane, a Mexican war veteran, died yesterday at his home in Wheatland. He was a native of Wayne county, Ohio, 82 years of age. He leaves three sons, William, Fred and Morris and three daughters, Mrs. William Bradshaw, Mrs. Hattie Hackett and Lizzie Dowane. The funeral will be conducted on Wednesday from his late home at 2 p.m. The same will be in charge of Undertaker Bevan. - The deceased was an old time friend of R. E. Bevan and wrote him as follows under date of August 7, 1910. - "I want to give you a little of my war record. I was in the Mexican war for three years. From there I went to Fort McKenzie, Michigan, was there three years and my regiment was sent to Washington Territory, and was there three years fighting Indians. Left there when my time was out after serving ten years. I am now receiving the magnificent sum of twenty dollars per month. I want you to show this to the Appeal and let them publish it. My father and one of my grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war. My father went as a drummer boy at fourteen and at fifteen they gave him a musket. This gun which my father used in the Revolution I left in Ohio when I went to the Mexican war. My father was sixteen when he was discharged in 1783."
His foot stone reflects the year that he died as 1911-which is incorrect. There are many errors on the Dowane Family stones leading me to believe that the stone carver had issues or that they were placed at a later date by family members who did not know the correct dates. I have tried to locate records for the headstones and foot stones and who may have placed them..but have not been successful.
Please don't hesitate to contact me with additional information or questions. I would love to find Morris's father and Grandfather and their histories.
Thank you to Susan James for an enormous amount of information sent my way on the children in this family and to Shirley Mitchell for her never ending research and transcriptions of numerous letters written by the daughters of Morris and Elizabeth.
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