This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Downs, Snoden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XNB.2ACI/755 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any info on the Downs family who lived in camden township, Ray county. Here is the info that I have based on census information. 1870 census : Elizabeth Snoden,72 F W Keeping House. b. TN William Snoden, 37 M W, Farmer, 1200, 385 b. TN Abraham Downs, 26 MW, Working on farm. b. IL Hannah Downs, 22 F W, No occupation. b. IL Thomas Downs, 19, M W, Day Laboror b IL Abraham married a Sylvannia and had 3 children by 1880. Mary, William Edgar and Thomas. Abraham continued to live in Camden until after 1910 after which I cannot find him in the census. I assume he is buried somewhere in Ray county. I also believe that Hannah and Thomas listed on the 1870 census are his siblings.