When Ora Lee McDowell was born in September 1889, in LaRue, Kentucky, United States, her father, Robert Enlow McDowell, was 22 and her mother, Ella E Marshall, was 20. She married Eli Stone Lewis on 17 April 1912, in LaRue, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Magisterial District 1 Hodgenville, LaRue, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Hyden, Leslie, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died in 1971, in Dawson, Terrell, Georgia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Dawson, Terrell, Georgia, United States.