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Rebecca Unknown, was born about 1811 in North CarolinaG.

Green S. Cox, was born about 1810 in VirginiaG.

Ann woGreenSCox, was born about 1824.
Ann woGreenSCox died in 1860.

Ira F Cox, was born about 1822.

Nancy F, was born about 1824.

William Dowling. William Dowling, Robert's only son by his first wife (name unknown) isthought by some to have been born as late as 1756. However heprobably married in VA before coming to SC in 1770. His King George'sgrant of SC land is dated 1771 which is two years earlier than hisfather's grant of 1773. William was probably married beforeleaving VA, for wife Rebecca Walker was a native of that state (and adaughter of Nathanial and Marian Walker). The tract of landgranted William in 1771 was sixty acres in size and lay on Flat Creek'in Craven County'. That old county covered over two-thirds of SC; itwas strictly a wilderness with few whites in it, so only menofpioneering instinct dared invade it. Adjoining the farm thatWilliam cleared were the lands of a William Breton and a widow Gibson. Dowling's 'Quit-rent' to the King's collectors in January of 1774 isproof of his residence in today's Darlington county area prior to hissubsequent move. By 1775 William had moved one hundred miles tothe southwest; he had decided to leave unsettled Craven County for themore stable Orangeburg District. The latter was near enough to theSavannah waterway on the southern border of the state that for almosta century a portion of its area had been known as Colleton County. It was at this third known home of William's that history was to letyoung Dowling live his last few years. He had purchased this farmfrom one Thomas Ford. It was on the Little Salkehatchee at CypressPond. This one hundred acre tract lay near present-day Bamber, SC. Hardly had these Dowlings settled on the Little Salkehatchee beforewar broke out with England. Young William responded to the call,though not by joining the 'regulars' as had father Robert. Instead,he joined the most dreaded band of guerillas that warfare had everknown: the backwoods followers of the 'Swampfox', General FrancisMarion. American history books tell of the many times that thesemen existed by eating sweet potatoes meal after meal. It was withthem that William fought in the hopeless defense of Charleston. Andit was England's revocation of the paroles originally granted thesedefeated Colonists after that battle and British insistence thatfrontiersmen be gathered up to fight for the King that is thought byhistorians to be the act that later caused such brilliant fighting bythe Carolinians. William was undoubtedly a 'Shirt-sleeve' patriot. . . one who did not always take time to don his uniform. For hisname is not on the official list of Marion's men. But the enemy hadhis name on a list. before the heatgenerated in this fight whichoftentimes involved neighbor against neighbor had died away in the1780's, he was caught at home by a bunch of Tories and shot dead onthe spot. Dowling's twelve-year old son, Jabez, looked on helplesslyas the muskets boomed. The war was over but only the leaders hadsigned the peace treaty. REFERENCE: A Dowling Family of the South. He, son of Robert Dowling and Unknown Wife, was born about 1745.
William Dowling died about 1785.

William Ballard, was born about 1820.

Martha Unknown, was born about 1822.

Nancy Unknown, was born about 1840.

John Cox, was born about 1835 in AlabamaG+.

William Cox. 1880 Dale Co AL Beat 11 p648: William 55 farmer AL SC SC, Dicy 41 NCNC NC, Jane 24 AL AL NC, Margaret 22 AL, Frances 20 AL, James 18laborer AL, Shermon 11 AL. He, was born about 1825 in AlabamaG+.

Birha woWilliamCox, was born about 1833 in North CarolinaG.

William A. Cox. 1880 Dale Co AL Beat 9 p638: William A 23 farmer AL NC? GA, Jane E 20AL GA GA, James W. 4 AL, Mary 3 AL. He, son of William Cox and Birha woWilliamCox, was born about 1857 in AlabamaG+.

Renae Unknown, was born in 1871.

Charlotte Brackin was buried in Claybank Cem-Ozark, Dale Co, ALG+.
She, was born on 20 July 1822.
Charlotte Brackin died on 20 October 1888.

Unknown Wife. Very little is known about the first wife of Robert Dowling. Robert'sgrandson by his second wife, Dempsey Dowling, recalled that she wasfrom VA where Robert lived. She died in the childbirth of her onlychild, William. REFERENCE: A Dowling Family of the South. She, was born in 1725.

Unknown Wife married Robert Dowling estimated 1744 in VirginiaG. The name of his first wife is unknown. Grandson Dempsey Dowling did remember that she was of VA birth. They had one son, William and his mother died in childbirth.¹

Unknown Wife died in 1756.

Rebecca Walker, daughter of Nathanial Walker and Marian Unknown, was born in 1750 in VirginiaG.
Rebecca Walker died in 1789 in South CarolinaG.

John Jabez Dowling, son of James Dowling, Sr., and Mary 'Polly' Boutwell, was born in 1790.

Mary Anna Dowling, daughter of Dempsey Dowling and Martha Stokes, was born about 1810.

Amanda E. O'Neal was buried in Claybank Cem-Ozark, Dale Co, ALG+.
She, was born in 1810.

Frances Dowling was also known as Frances Brackin. She. Frances Dowling was born four years after her brother Marion. Whenshe was about eighteen, she married Elisha R. Woodham, a war-veteransome five to eight years her senior.

Rev. John McDonald was emigrated from Scoutland in 1778 to VA. He, was born in 1790.

Sarah (Sally) McDonald, was born in 1790.

Anna Jane Dowling, daughter of Noel P Dowling and Sarah Delaney McDonald, was born in Dale Co, ALG+.

Anna Jane Dowling married James Walter Towns Smith on 21 December 1869 in Dale Co, ALG+.¹

Anna Jane Dowling died on 31 May 1895.

Caroline Martin, was born in 1812.

Jefferson Dowling was buried in Claybank Cem-Ozark, Dale Co, ALG+.
He, son of Fletcher Dowling and Caroline Martin, was born on 6 May 1848.
Jefferson Dowling died on 12 March 1887.