DOWNING, Anthony 1817 - 1880

DOWNING

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:22:51

"The Evening Journal"
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa
Monday, November 29, 1880
Front Page, Page 5

ON THE SICK LIST.

… Anthony DOWNING, of Buchanan, is down with paralytic paralyssis, and is very bad. …

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Thursday, December 2, 1880
Page 3, Column 5

leasant Grove. (sic)

… Anthony DOWNING is growing weaker and there is little hope of his recovery. …

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Thursday, December 16, 1880
Page 2, Column 6

Central Buchanan.

… Mr. A. DOWNING who has been sick for six or eight months is now very low.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Thursday, January 6, 1881
Page 2, Column 5

Central Buchanan.

…. Died--December 23d, at his residence, three and one half miles northeast of Fairfield, Mr. A. DOWNING, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Mr. DOWNING has been a resident of this county since its earliest settlement. In Mr. DOWNING we loose (sic) one of our best citizens. He was a man of uncommon physical strength. He went to California during the gold excitement and through exposure it is believed that he contracted the diseases that culminated in his death. He was twice married. He leaves his family in good circumstances.

Anglo-Saxon Chief.

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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: First wife was Rachel KELTNER, second was Harriet WAGONER. Harriet died in 1895 and is buried with Anthony in Upper Richwood Cemetery.