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Author: MadelineBechtold
Surnames: Downing
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Is the Elizabeth Downing who married Z. Headley the daughter of John H. Downing and Sarah
Knight?
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 775-776, Lewis
Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
JOHN H. DOWNING was reared to manhood in Muskingum County, where he was
married July 23, 1829, to MISS SARAH KNIGHT, who was born in Delaware,
within a half mile of husband's birthplace, the date of her birth being
December 24, 1809. Her parents died when she was a child, and when fifteen
years old she went to Ohio to live with a sister. In the fall of 1829 MR.
DOWNING came with his wife to Tippecanoe County, and the first year and a
half he resided one and a half miles west of his homestead, to which he
removed in March, 1831, then entering eighty acres of Government land, the
patent being signed by General Andrew Jackson, then President of the United
States. MR. DOWNING lived on this land a period of fifty-eight years.
Of the eleven children born to MR. and MRS. DOWNING, three sons and four
daughters are yet living--MARTIN H., HENRY and WILLIAM, ELIZABETH, wife of
Z. HADLEY, of White County, Indiana; SUSAN, widow of WILLIAM MUNGER,
residing in Tippecanoe County; ORRA, wife of DAVID F. SEXTON, living at
Puget Sound, and ELIZA, wife of JOHN B. THOMAS, residing at the homestead.
BENJAMIN, MELISSA and JOHN died in early childhood, and JAMES grew to
maturity. He was a soldier of the war of Rebellion, lost his hearing from
disease contracted in the army, and was killed in 1884 by a train of cars
at Lebanon, Indiana, where he lived. He left at his death a wife and three
children.
There's more, but no futher information on the Headley family.
I have connections to Elizabeth's brother, Henry C. Downing of Battle Ground.
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