JULIA E MCKEEN

Julia E. McKeen about 1839 in Brewer, Penobscot County, Maine, the daughter of James McKeen and Hannah D. Rowe. She was enumerated with her parents in the 1850 census. Sometime before 1860 she married John H. Beede, a "millman".

Sometime before 1870, she married Alexander Dowdell. We have no idea what happened to John H. Beede, but we must recognize that the Civil War was fought during that time frame.

CENSUS

1860 US Census, Eddington, Penobscot County, Maine

page 143 of reel, page 19 of E. Eddington Twp (our page 19 in file)
Household 133/140
James McKeen 55 Joiner $200 $ 70 ME
Hannah D. ? 50 kitmaker ME
Finson W. 17 ME x
Ida J 14 ME x
Seth A 12 ME x
Lucy L 8 MEx
Riemel C McKeen 5 ME
Albert W. McKeen 1 Canada
Mary Ranwe (?) 75 MA
John W. Beede 27 millman ME
Juliette Beede 21 ME
Hannah M Beede 1 ME

x=attended school

1870 US Census, Eddington, Penobscot County

Household 32, family 34, page 4
Alexander Dowdell age 33 m w day lab $500 $150 NB
Julia E age 30 f w keeps house ME
Nelson Dowdell age 61 m w day lab Nova Scotia
Margaret Dowdell age 62 f w Nova Scotia
William Dowdell age 20 m w Nova Scotia x
Ella M. Beede age 11 f w ME x
Freddie A. Beede age 8 m w ME x
David S. Clark age 25 m w day lab NB
Mandana G Clark age 25 f w Nova Scotia
Everett F age 1 m w Nova Scotia
Wilbert Allen age 24 m w day lab Nova Scotia
Leander Davis age 30 m w day lab Nova Scotia
Mushrow?, Homer? age 25 m w day lab NB
Reuben Brockway age 30 m w day lab Nova Scotia

x=attended school

MISC

Probate papers of her mother, Hannah Rowe McKeen, shows Julia Dowdell of Hesperia, Michigan probably at time of her death (1901).

CHILDREN OF JULIA E MCKEEN

1. Hannah M Beede, born about 1858 or 1859

2. Ella M Beede, born about 1858 or 1859

3. Freddie A. Beede, born about 1861 or 1862.

Are Hannah M. and Ella M. Beede the same daughter, or were just born a year apart?

We have not found any descendants of Alexander Dowdell and Julia McKeen. Hopefully, we will find some.

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