Other Sinclair Photographs and Biographies

 

 

Jessie Ann Sinclair Cady Davis, oldest daughter of John and Jessie Black Sinclair


 
This tintype shows, I believe, Jessie Sinclair Cady with her two daughters, Mary Belle 'Mamie' and Jessie Flora and Jessie's mother, Jessie Black Sinclair.


 
A photograph of Jessie and Mamie. The arrow points to Jessie, who was the younger of the two sisters and is the ancestor of the Sinclair- Dowell line. She appears to be the older sister in this photo, but in the tintype above Mamie with her very round face does look like the older. Mamie and Jessie were going to make their home with the FT Ramseys, after their mother died in 1892. Mamie was taken ill, probably appendicitis, in Chicago before she traveled to Texas. She died several days after reaching Austin and is buried in the Bear Creek cemetery in Burnet County, Texas between Bertram and Mahomet on FM 243. Jessie Flora was unofficially adopted by Frank Taylor and Belle Ramsey and lived with them, probably until her marriage in 1905.


Above right, Mary's grave stone. It says, "Mary B. Cady; Born In Manistee, Mich. Oct 14, 1878 - Died May 9, 1894 At Austin, Texas."



A photograph of "CT Dowell, one year old", taken in Austin, Texas. Presumably this is Carr Thomas Dowell, Jr born in Temple, Texas on 15 Mar 1906 so this photo was taken in March 1907. He was the oldest of four sons of Carr Thomas and Jessie Flora Cady Dowell.



A photo from the 1946 LSU yearbook of Martha Frances 'Sally' Dowell, the daughter of Carr Thomas Dowell, Jr and Martha Shirley Boyd Dowell, later Pendleton. The yearbook noted she was from New Orleans, Louisiana, majoring in Arts and Sciences and was a member of Pi Beta Phi.


 

 

Three of the daughters of John and Jessie Black Sinclair.

Front row: Flora Jane Sinclair Moreland, Euphemia 'Euphie' Black Sinclair Williams

Back row: Annabelle Sinclair Ramsey



 

 

 

Malcolm B. Sinclair, son of John and Jessie Black Sinclair

 

He was killed by lightening in 1887 at the age of 30. Because of the untimely deaths of Malcolm and other family members named Malcolm, and an accident involving at least one other, the family dropped the tradition of passing along this proud Scots name to male children. He's buried in the Bear Creek cemetery in Burnet County, Texas. The stone says "M. B. Sinclair died Jul 27, 1887  Age 30 Yrs"



 

 

Flora Jane Sinclair and M. Burr Moreland and four of their children

 

They had six children: Samuel Neil, Malcolm Burr, Jessie Belle, John Millard, Mary Euphie and Flora Agnes. If the baby is John Millard, the photo was taken in 1893.



Two snapshots taken probably at the home of FT and Belle Ramsey. The photo on the left shows, I believe, upper row, Jessie Flora Cady [Dowell]? and Mary Euphie Moreland [Hudson] Sitting, Jessie Belle Moreland [Cox] and Flora Agnes Moreland. The three Morelands were sisters, the daughters of Flora and Burr Moreland. Jessie Flora Cady would have been their cousin, the daughter of Flora's deceased sister, Jessie Sinclair Cady. The photo on the right was obviously taken at the same time and adds Mercy Perkins Ramsey holding, presumably, one of her children. At first I thought it was Murray Ramsey which would have put the date of the photo around 1910, but Flora Agnes Moreland was born in 1900 and looks older than 10 years old. If the child Mercy is holding is Helen Ramsey, born in 1917 then the photo could have been taken in 1918 making Flora 18, a more reasonable age. Or it might be the child of one of the other women, leaving the date unknown. I don't know who the other young woman is on the far right sitting behind Flora. I don't believe she's a Sinclair relation. She could be a Ramsey relative. I don't think she's Mercy's sister, Mary. She could be a friend not a relative.

 

 

 

 

Left, John Neil Sinclair, son of John and Jessie Black Sinclair. Right, Neil and Cora Sinclair

 

The 1880 US census for Manistee, Manistee County, Michigan lists an Edward J. Cady, 36, his wife Jessie A. 30 and born in Canada and their daugher Mary Belle, 2 living at 206 Third St. Also living with them was Edward's brother-in-law, Niel St. Clair. The census lists his age as 27, which would make his birth date ca 1853 instead of ca 1863. The ealier date would make more sense for him going to the 1876 WorldÕs Fair. He would have been 23 instead of 13. But that conflicts with his death date of 1900 supposedly at the age of 37, according to a note on the back of his photo. Jane and Claire Williams think the earlier date is correct, that he was born ca. 1853 instead of what the family story below would imply, ca 1863.

Info on one of his photos said ÒJohn Neil Sinclair, principal of Spokane, Washington public schools, Deputy Sheriff at Caney (Carney?) Kansas. Emigrated to Texas in April 1882, Died 2/23/1900, acute meningitis, Spokane Washington.Ó In the 1900 US census taken on June 11 in Spokane, Washington, a Cora A. Sinclair, age 27, was living with her brother, Charles Reynolds. She was listed as a widow, born  Aug 1872 in Maine. Her parents were also from Maine. She had had no children and was working as a stenographer.

According to a family story, Neil fell in love with Texas and wrote back for his family to go down there and sit under their Ôown vine and fig tree.Õ He brought his mother and sisters from Canada to Texas and then left them. He moved from Texas, and he and his wife lived in Spokane, where he was a principal  at Logan School and a member of the Christian Church. He died at age 37.

In 1938, Winnie Ramsey Nitschke paid $1.02 for a cement marker to be put on the grave of her uncle, Belle's brother, John Neil SinclairÕs grave in Spokane, WA. Up until then there had only been a wooden cross marking the grave.

 

 

 

Ann Sinclair Marshall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tombstone of Ann McKinnon and Duncan Sinclair. Duncan was Ann Sinclair Marshall's brother

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Marshall, son of Charles and Ann Sinclair Marshall

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to Flora Myrtle Sinclair, the photo on the left is of Laughlin McCowan; on the right is Hugh McCowan who married Isabel Graham. Laughlin and Hugh were brothers of Ann McCowan Sinclair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The gravestone of Neil and Ann McCowan Sinclair