Regarding John Henry Lash, Phoebe WAS his mother as listed on his birth record but has the father shown as "Unknown." I also heard that John was named after his father who died from either gangrene or consumption around the time of John's birth. Therefore, based on sources, I would think that the full name would be either William John Dowd or John William Dowd. He would have been roughly between 25 and 30 years old at death in 1869.