Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Martha Wheaton Dowd

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Bob Taft — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 21 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Dowd 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Wheaton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 May 1834 
  • Birth Location:
  • Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Nov 1834 
  • Christening Location:
  • Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jun 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Dwight Bowers
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1852 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (Ahnentafel No:10 )

• Sources for Martha Wheaton Dowd

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for Martha Wheaton Dowd.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, Death record for Martha Wheaton Dowd Bowers.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Hartford, p. 98, Marriage record for S. Dwight Bowers and Martha W. Dowd.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/07/2019).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 1910/17, p. 197, Death certificate for son Lloyd Bowers.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Springfield, Vol. 123, p. 354, Birth record for son Lloyd W Bowers.
  • ⁷ Dowd, Rev. W. W., The Descendants of Henry Doude, Who Came From England in 1639, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1885), 31.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 56.