Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green, Cincinnati, 
1889, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1959. pp. 63-64 [Owen 
county].

The second son of Colonel [James] McDowell was Captain John Lyle 
McDowell, a courageous soldier of the War of 1812, in which his father 
and brother fought.  Volunteering as a mere youth, in 1813, he followed 
Shelby to the front, participating in all the sanguinary engagements in 
the North-west, in which Kentuckians, under their martial governor, won 
fame and honor.  He did well his part, as became his lineage.  As modest 
as he was brave, it was his to lead a life of duty in the private 
station.  He inherited the farm in Fayette first owned by his father; 
selling which to the husband of his daughter - Clifton Ross - he removed 
to a large estate owned by him, in Owen county, on the Kentucky river.  
After an unstained and upright life of eighty-four years, he died, in 
December, 1878, at the residence of his son-in-law, Captain Samuel 
Steele, in Frankfort.  His wife, Nancy Vance, was a daughter of Richard 
Scott, whose mother was a Montgomery, a near relative of General Richard 
Montgomery, who fell at Quebec.  Through the Scotts, she was nearly 
related to the late Judge Wm. S. Botts, of Fleming, and, through the 
Montgomerys, to the Deshas.  Captain Steele, who married one of their 
daughters, was the son of William Steele and Rebecca McClung - the 
latter a daughter of John McClung and a sister of Judge William McClung; 
John McClung was a brother of Mary, the wife of Judge Samuel McDowell; 
and thus, Captain Steele and his wife were kinspeople.  Captain John 
McDowell's son, James, a farmer, married Lizzie Green, lived long the 
bank of the Kentucky river, in Owen, and now resides in Missouri.  
Alexander Boyd McDowell, a Confederate soldier in McCullough's Missouri 
cavalry, was killed in battle at Colliersville, Mississippi; his widow, 
Mrs. Fannie McDowell, and only daughter, Mildred, live at Sedalia, 
Missouri.

McDowell Shelby Ross Steele Vance Scott Montgomery Botts Desha McClung 
Green 
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Frankfort-Fayette-KY Quebec-Canada Fleming-KY MO MS 

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