Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday means that you post a photo with no words. I'm not going to be able to do this without any words. I just have to tell you all of the details that I know. :)

This is Women's History month in the genealogy community and also it's St. Patrick's Day. We have a little Irish/Scottish coming down through our McDowell line so I've posted a picture of Margaret Slaugenhaupt McDowell today. I'm not sure that she herself had any Irish in her lines. Her maiden name sounds pretty German to me. Her line hasn't been researched to any extent and I only have possible names for her parents. She did marry an Irish or Scotsman when she married Uriah McDowell. I've been told that he had bright red hair and was a Sunday school teacher by family members old enough to have heard these things from their parents. Margaret is my third great grandmother in the McDowell line. She was born in Maryland or Washington, D.C. on Feb. 5, 1822. She married Uriah in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania March 25, 1841. She died August 5, 1899 in Decatur County, Iowa. She had 5 children, the oldest son dying at the age of 3 and being buried in Pennsylvania. She, along with her 4 remaining children, traveled with her husband first to Knox County, Illinois and from there to Decatur County, Iowa. She raised a granddaughter in her later years. Her story is far from complete in my research. I would like to find her exact birthplace and parents. I would love to know where she grew up and who her siblings were and how she met Uriah. More research to be done!