STOWE, Joel
Birth Name | STOWE, Joel [1] [2] |
Also Known As | STOW, Jowel N. |
Unknown | STOWE, Joseph Nunn [3] |
Gender | male |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Birth | about 1830 | KY |
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Parents
Father | STOWE, James |
Mother | NUNN, Martha Patsy |
Siblings |
Families
Married | Wife | CONKLIN, Mary Wilmina | ||||||||||||
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Children |
Narrative
Is Joel STOW, son of Martha Patsy NUNN and James STOW, the same person as Jowell N. STOWE, father of Amanda? In my opinion, all of the indications (dates, names, places of birth, etc.) point to this conclusion. But it remains circumstantial evidence.
Jess Headley [http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:2716375] presents an entirely different family. In Headley's version, Jowel STOWE (husband of Mary Wilmina Conklin) is the son of Ollie WHITE (born abt. 1873) and Runyon STOWE. Jowell's siblings, Martha, Albert, Ada, Foy, Mattie are born betwen 1894 and 1902 in Indian Territory. The incompatible dates indicate to me that Mr. Headley has followed the perfectly good branch to a very wrong, strange fruit. It happens...
Source References
- 1880 US Census: TX, Denton Co., Precinct No. 8, Enumeration District 105
- Walter Maynard
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Jan Lawson, “Post-em” note on Jess Headley’s ancestry.com site
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Source text:
Joseph Nunn "Joel" Stowe, husband of Mary Wilmina (Conklin) Stowe was not a child of Runyan Stowe and Ollie White. He was a son of James Stowe and Martha "Patsy" Nunn and was born in KY. ca. 1830. Joseph (listed as Joel N. Stowe) married Mary W. Conklin in Fannin Co., TX. 11-23-1859. Joseph's brother, Edward Hall Stowe (listed as E. H. Stowe) married Mary's sister Ellen Jemima Conklin in Fannin Co., TX. 7-13-1859. Both Ellen and Mary daughters of James Runyan Conklin and Amanda Connet.
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Source text:
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- Fannin Co. Texas Marriage Records