Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 
1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. p. 66. [Mason 
county].

DR. EPHRAIM McDOWELL.  The youngest child of Colonel James McDowell and 
Mary Paxton Lyle was Dr. Ephraim McDowell, of Mason county, a handsome, 
graceful gentleman and a successful physician.  His first wife was Ann, 
daughter of General Robert Poage who commanded a brigade in the war of 
1812.  General Robert Poage was a descendant of the Robert Poage who 
"proved his importation" at Orange Court House in 1740, and whose 
daughter was the first wife of Colonel Robert Breckinridge of Kentucky.  
Dr. McDowell's second wife was Lucretia C. Feemster.  One of their sons 
is Dr. Lucien McDowell, of Flemingsburg, who was first a captain and 
then a surgeon in the Confederate army.  Dr. Ephriam McDowell's daughter 
Mary married Frank Garrard, a grandson of the second Governor of 
Kentucky.  Dr. Ephraim McDowell had another son, James, who was a 
Captain of a Missouri company in the Confederate army.  He died from the 
effect of wounds received while fighting at the front in the battle of 
Springfield, Mo.

McDowell Paxton Lyle Poage Breckinridge Feemster Garrard 
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Orange-VA Flemingsburg-Fleming-KY MO

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