When Eleanor Jane Dowdle was born on 19 August 1833, in Madison, Alabama, United States, her father, James Gibson Dowdle, was 25 and her mother, Frances Moreland, was 21. She married Alexander Young Jr. on 6 April 1885, in Lowndes, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Monroe, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Hamilton, Monroe, Mississippi, United States in 1910. She died on 18 July 1920, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Center Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Hamilton, Monroe, Mississippi, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
English: variant of Dowdell .
Altered form of German Daudl, Dautel, which derived from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Theudulf, composed of the elements theod ‘people, race’ + wulf ‘wolf’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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