Indiana Family Group Sheet for the Don Elias DOWNING Family *********************************************** Copyright Arthur "Art" Allen MOORE III. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Arthur "Art" Allen MOORE III Email address: Husband: Don Elias DOWNING Birthdate: May 22, 1832 Birthplace: Moscow, Clermont County, Washington Township, Ohio Death date: January 3, 1913 Place of death: Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Burial: Parks Memorial - IOOF Cemetery Marshall County Indiana / Section 3 Row 22 Father: John DOWNING Mother: Mary (Unknown Maiden Name) Marriage date: July 1, 1852 Marriage place: Stout's Mill - Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana Wife: Sarah Jane CASSELL Birthdate: December 25, 1832 Birthplace: College Corner (Oxford Township), Butler County, Ohio Death date: September 25, 1901 Place of death: Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Burial: Parks Memorial - IOOF Cemetery Marshall County Indiana /Section 3 Row 22 Father: James CASSELL Mother: Catherine BENNETT CHILDREN Child No. 1: Angeline Belle DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: January 29, 1853 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: October 12, 1854 Place of death: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: Mary Catherine DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: January 28, 1855 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: March 18, 1940 Place of death: Azalia, Sandcreek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana Burial: Azalia Friends Cemetery (Quaker) Marriage date: February 26, 1881 Marriage place: Bartholomew County, Indiana Spouse's name: Joseph F. HARRIS Child No. 3: John Timothy DOWNING Sex: Male Birthdate: March 26, 1857 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: April 8, 1860 Place of death: Azalia, Bartholomew County, Indiana Burial: Azalia Methodist Cemetery - Alalia, Bartholomew County, Indiana Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: Medora "Dora" Lavenia DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: December 28, 1859 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: September 28, 1890 Place of death: Bartholomew County, Indiana Burial: Azalia Methodist Cemetery - Sandcreek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana Marriage date: Marriage place: BartholomewCounty, Indiana Spouse's name: William Asbury SUTFIN Child No. 5: Emma Jane DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: December 17, 1861 Birthplace: Sandcreek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: February 20, 1931 Place of death: Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana Marriage date: May 10, 1885 Burial: Garland Brook Cemetery - Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana Marriage place: Marshall County, Indiana Spouse's name: Thomas E. PARISH Child No. 6: Tamar "Tama" Lydia DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: July 2, 1866 Birthplace: Jennings County, Indiana Death date: November 20, 1933 Place of death: Imola, Napa County, California Burial: Marriage date: April 29, 1887 Marriage place: St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska Spouse's name: William Harry COMPTON Child No. 7: Morton Elias DOWNING Sex: Male Birthdate: January 12, 1868 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: August 1, 1939 Place of death: Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida Burial: Orange Hill Cemetery, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida Marriage date: June 21, 1897 Marriage place: Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois Spouse's name: Effie Eslie WORDEN Child No. 8: Rachel Josephine DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: October 14, 1869 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: September 30, 1926 Place of death: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Burial: Parks Memorial - IOOF Cemetery Marshall County , Indiana Marriage date: July 12, 1895 Marriage place: Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Spouse's name: Lester Tye DEARDORFF Child No. 9: Joseph Terrell DOWNING Sex: Male Birthdate: April 25, 1872 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: July 18, 1872 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 10: Julia Lectania Frances DOWNING Sex: Female Birthdate: June 13, 1874 Birthplace: Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County, Indiana Death date: May 10, 1958 Place of death: Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Burial: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Marriage date: June 26, 1892 Marriage place: Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana Spouse's name: Phillip Henry BAUGHER Documentation: Source: Bourbon News - Mirror / Bourbon, Marshall County, Indiana / 9 JAN 1913 / page 4 CAPTAIN DOWNING WELL KNOWN CITIZEN AND SOLDIER RESPONDS TO “LIGHTS OUT” BURIED TUESDAY After but a short illness, due to pneumonia, Captain Downing died at the home of his son-in-law, Phillip Baugher, and wife, Friday evening and the remains were laid to rest Tuesday, after a funeral service at the home, conducted by Rev. Rittenhouse, and exercises at the grave by Masons. The following obituary tells of the life of the deceased and was read by the minister: Don Elias Downing was born May, 22, 1832 in Moscow, Ohio. At the age of eighteen he came with his mother to Jennings County, Indiana. In 1851 he was united in marriage to Sarah Jane Cassell. To this union was born eleven children. The wife and five children, two sons and three daughters, preceeded him to the spirit world. Those surviving are six children: Mary C. Harris, Azalia, Indiana; Emily J. Parish, Rector, Arkansas; Tamar L. Compton, Keokuk, Iowa; Morton E. Downing, Hooker, Oklahoma; R. Josephine Deardorff, Pullman, Illinois; Julia L. F. Baugher, Bourbon, fifteen grandchildren, seven great-grand-children. In July 1861 he enlisted in Company G, 22nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At the expiration of three years he re-enlisted and served to the close of the war. Was one of the boys who marched with General Sherman to the sea. In 1865 he was united with the Christian church of Elizabethtown, Indiana. He joined the Masonic order in early life and remained a faithful member until the day of his death. He came with his family to northern Indiania in 1880 and located in Bourbon. He remained in Bourbon until 1905 when he entered the National Military Home, of Grant County, Indiana. Those from a distance who were here to attend the funeral were: Mort Downing, son of the deceased, and his family, of Hooker, Oklahoma; Mrs. Tamer Compton of Keokuk, Iowa, and Mrs. L. T. Deardorff, of Pullman, and Mearl Baugher of Michigan City.