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From: christina m hursh <>
Subject: bio:DOWTY, Thomas - Wayne county
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:45:21 -0600


>From the Ohio Biographies Project
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"History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First
Settlers to the
Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher
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THOMAS DOWTY

Thomas Dowty, the father of Thomas Dowty, was a South Carolinian,
born about 1785. His
grandfather, David Dowty, was a farmer and dealer in blooded horses, and
removed to
Kentucky, and thence to Athens County, Ohio, where he died. His son,
Thomas Dowty, emigrated to
Wayne County in 1811, settling on a farm east of Wooster, on the State
road. Here he entered eighty
acres of land and remained a few years, when he went to Franklin
Township in 1814, where he
entered 160 acres of land, now owned by the heirs of Adam Weiker. He
settled in the woods, built a
cabin, lived in it without a floor, etc., and staid to 1830, when he
removed to the farm now owned by
his son, Thomas Dowty, and here his death occurred in 1842. He was
married to Rosa Sowards, a
Kentucky lady, and raised six children. He was re-married to Hannah
Young, of Holmes County.
Thomas Dowty, his son, was born November 27, 1806, in Athens County,
Ohio, and was married
October 20, 1836, to Sarah Ann Cavenee, of Columbia County,
Pennsylvania. David Dowty, we were
informed by Thomas, who was his cousin, was the first white boy born in
Wayne County, that event
transpiring in Wooster, his father's name being Daniel Dowty. The farm
upon which Thomas
Dowty now lives is said to be the first one entered in Franklin
Township, and by old James Morgan.
Upon his premises, and near his house, in 1874, he constructed a
beautiful fish pond, supplied from a
strong spring, in which are many varieties of fish. He is a generous and
warm-hearted man, charac-
terized by a true Southern hospitality, sociableness and friendliness of
feeling.
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