There is no way anyone can get copies of this book............It was written by my 2xgreatuncle Will Downing for the family. I have the only copy. The things that I put in the earlier emails were just mentions. There are very few detailed references to any of these families other than what I have already written.......... Uncle Will visited with the Davis girl who had married Mr. Grant in 1918 while on a trip to Chester SC. Dora had died by that time and Mrs. Grant was very ill. I was hoping that somehow they might help someone who would recognize other names/places. Wish I had more to offer!!!! I have been trying to find out more about my Downing/Dowing family through these additional names and places. I know that James Dowing/Downing was a school teacher somewhere in Chester Co SC. He also taught at some of the old time "singing schools." His family lived on Downing Hill - five miles northwest of the town of Chester - and the land was still referred to as Downing Hill in the early 1900s by some of the locals. There was a spring nearby. The old chimney place was still standing in 1918. Will Downing (his son) attended Sandy River Academy and remembered going to Zion Church at Bullock Creek. He said he believed he had been baptized by a Mr. Bishop. By tracking ministers in that area at that time --- I finally found a Rev. Pierpont Bishop who was probably the minister that Will Downing referred to in the book. I know that there was a lawsuit brought against James Downing's sister - Rachel Clarentine - sometimes called Clementine -Downing who married 1st Moses Smith Mitchell and 2nd John Lee Scott. She was represented in this case by George and David Hardin. J.C. Lipford is also mentioned in the papers. I do have the papers connected with that lawsuit which I found in the SC archives. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? Also.........I believe that Grandison Williams was probably a person in that area who ran a local school. Has anyone got any info on that???? There is one other mention of the Davis girls that I have just found...........it says that when the Downings left the Carolinas with other family/friends including Davis Boyd, Dr. Bryan and the Gastons - that two of the Davis girls (Mrs. Grant and another sister) "rode several miles with us on the way before parting." Uncle Will also says that when Mrs. Grant heard that he was in Chester SC on a visit(in 1918)- that she sent for him. That she was an earnest Christian and had him to pray with her at her bedside. Uncle Will was a Presbyterian minister. This book was written 12 years after that visit..........so that would be about 1930. Uncle Will would have been about 80 years old. I have ridden all over Chester County SC looking for these places. The ones mentioned above are all in the northwest part of the county. Peggy - I also have Lewis, Boyd, Linn and McElhenny/McElhaney lines........... Maria