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
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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
Spouses' names: 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
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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
Spouses' names: 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
Spouses' names: 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
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Marriage date: April 29, 1887
Marriage place: St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
Spouses' names: 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
Spouses' names: 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
Spouses' names: 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
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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
Spouses' names: Phillip Henry BAUGHER
 
 
Documentation:
* 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.