I have some on the John and Mary Boiler Downing family. I have been to where John and Mary are buried. Don Smith -----Original Message----- From: Sherry Kaseberg <sherryk@TRANSPORT.COM> To: DOWNING-L@rootsweb.com <DOWNING-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [DOWNING-L] Charles L. DOWNING >>Jim, >> Thank you for that hint. I will check Iowa for Downings. It just >>could be; I haven't found some of mine anywhere else. Sue Hodnett >> >> >>==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >>What Downing resources do you own? Tell us. >> > >Some Iowa and Kansas Downings...I will be glad to share more if anyone >belongs to these lines. >George and Lavinah VonBuskirk Downing were married in 1852. He was born in >Pike Co OH to John and Mary Boiler Downing and died in Collins, IA >1904...also lived Hancock Co OH ca 1831, and went to Story County, at >Collins IA about 1872. Their children, some of them buried in Iowa, are Mary >Amanda Williams, David Thomas Downing, Eleanor Mead, Nancy Jane Day, William >Sumner, Ellsowrth Downing who married Laura L. Brown, Grant Downing who did >not marry, and John Henry Downing who died in Wiley CO 1950. Research on >this family was done by Ethel Downing Davis, dau of Ellsworth, some years ago. > >Another son of John and Mary Boiler Downing, William Downing and his wife >Eliza Jane Green left Pike County OH and went to Hancock Co, OH then to >Morris Co KS. William served in the Kansas legislature. Their children >mostly lived in KS. William's brother Isaac also went to Kansas to join his >brother with his father.And their brother Timothy Downing married to Mary >Wood went to Kansas and on the the west, or at least his wife Mary went on >to WA and OR. >Sherry > > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >What Downing resources do you own? Tell us. > >