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| Birth: | 8 Jun 1835 in Holmes County Mt Hope Ohio 1 |
| Death: | 28 Nov 1885 in Rochester Indaana(IOOF) 1 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | George Downs b. 18 Mar 1815 in Jefferson Couty, Ohio |
| Mother: | Ann Black b. 28 Jan 1819 in Uniontown Fayette County Pennslyvania |
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FROM FULTON COUNTY NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS 1858-1864 p. 123-- May 12 1864 Lenard Downs is mentioned as opening a meat market in the basement of Samuel Hock's Store. From the Rochester Chronicle, Thursday, November 12, 1863.
George Downs is mentioned as a premium winner at the sixth annual Fulton County Fair held in October. Also John Downs is mentioned. This could have been brother John Hall or son John Dan. FULTON COUNTY EXCERPTS 1858-1864 pp 122-123. As Lenard Downs is mentioned in the Newspaper a year later. I sirmise that George and sons Lenard and John Dan Downs and possibly other family members came to Fulton County together earlier in 1863 and possibably before. These three were the only ones to make their notice in the newspapers or elsewhere that I have found.
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, August 13, 1875
A gentleman from Ohio has purchased LEN DOWNS' farm. This is the sixth family from that State that has settled in this portion of Rochester township during the last three years.
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Fridav, November 26, 1875
LEM DOWNS has purchased the IZZARD farm, three miles south of Rochester.
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KEWANNA ITEMS, April 19, 1876
BEEF STEAK! I have just opened a new meat market that will be well stocked with the very best meat and country produce. All meat buyers in the north end of town are requested to give me a trial call... LEN. DOWNS.
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, May 20, 1876
For Coroner E. KRATZER (defeated) LEN. DOWNS
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KEWANNA ITEMS, June 1. 1876
ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, June 10, 1876
LEN. DOWNS has succeeded in getting the promise of about $30 a week for which he proposes to sprinkle MAIN STREET from the SPY office to FRED FROMM'S, providing the town will furnish him with an abundance of water at some convenient point. To complete the sprinkling demands, our town Councilmen have dug a well and commenced the erection of a huge tank, locating it in a very conspicuous spot -- on Main street, near Kirtland's corner. This impressive, ugly construction, together with its undesirable location, will undoubtedly prove to be a nuisance and a dumb elephant erected as an ornament for summer use and play the idle part of a public bore in the winter time. We believe in sprinkling and tanks, but do not believe in disfiguring and obstructing Main street, as is now being done, when there are more suitable and desirable locations for wells and tanks aside from a prominent corner on our principal thoroughfare.
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, June 23, 1876
SPY REPORTS
LEN DOWNS has sold his street sprinkler to another party...
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, September 23, 1876
KEWANNA ITEMS, Sept. 21, 1876
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
DIED. -LEN. DOWNS' child, 11 months old, died last Saturday and was buried Sunday.
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, June 23, 1876
KEWANNA by MEDICI
SPY REPORTS
LEN DOWNS has sold his street sprinkler to another party...
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, November 10, 1876
(Application for License) ... to sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors... in the one-story frame building situated on the east end of the north half of the south half of lot number seventy-seven (77) in the new plat of the town of Rochester... LEONARD DOWNS.
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, February 10, 1877
DIED. -Mr. and Mrs. LEN. DOWNS have passed through a severe affliction. About three months ago the white-winged messenger came and took their little OTTO, aged three months, and on Monday he returned and took from their family circle REUBEN, a bright youth of four years. The parents are in deep affliction over the loss of their darlings.
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, March 10, 1877
The new livery stable in the Wallace House barn is conducted by LEN. DOWNS & CO., and not by PERRY DAVIS, as was previously stated...
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KEWANNA ITEMS, March 14, 1877
DOWNS & CO., proprietors of the new livery stable in the Wallace House barn, are now prepared to furnish the traveling public with good rigs at reasonable rates.
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, September 22, 1877
LEMUEL DOWNS is now constable, and it behooves you to be a little careful how you step on his biggest corn.
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ROCHESTER SENTINEL, Saturday, October 20, 1877
Constable LEN. DOWNS recently made a visit to Monterey to settle a slight difference between THOMAS B. MARTIN and wife.
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Saturday, September 2, 1882
George MOON is a Henry township citizen, a man about 25 years of age. For some time past he
has been paying marked attention to Salina CARR, a daughter of David CARR, of this city.
Their friendship for each other during the frequent visits of Moon to the parental home of the
girl, ripened into love, but whether it was a pure and holy love, such as to meet the approval of
God and man, we cannot say. At all events it was a love that left its mark and cast its shadows
before. At that interesting period Moon seemed to lose his fondness for the gril and seldom saw
her. She waited patiently for his coming, but he came not. About the time of her confinement,
which occurred this week, she sent Constable DOWNS after him and that officer compelled him
to show sufficient respect to the girl he had ruined, to come and gaze upon his offspring. He
came, and as he watched at her bedside, he very wisely concluded that the best way to make
amends for the wrong he had done would be to marry her. Procuring the license and the services
of a person authorized to tie matrimonial knots, the twain were made one. We hope it is a happy
union and that Mr. and Mrs. Moon and the little new Moon will always shine and their pathway
through life made bright.
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Saturday, July 7, 1883
Len DOWNS is now ready to do a land office business at his new eating house, located near theC. & A. depot. . .
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Wednesday, December 2, 1885
Len DOWNS, one of our well known citizens, died last Saturday morning and was buried on
Sunday. For years he has been a sufferer with consumption. During his life he had many
misfortunes, chief among which was the almost total loss of his sight, years ago. He suffered
much and through the kindness of the citizens he was enabled to procure the best of treatment,
but it resulted in but little good. He was a soldier in the late war and as such he became a
pensioner. He was buried by the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the G.A.R. band
being also in attendance. Brief funeral services were held at the house, and at the grave Hon. M.
L. ESSICK delivered a beautiful eulogy to the dead and his late comrades in arms. The funeral
sermon proper will be preached next Sunday at the Baptist church by Rev. E. J. DELP.
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Saturday, March 2, 1878
Len DOWNS is now in the market as an auctioneer, and is ready to help any party desiring to sell out.
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Saturday, May 18, 1878
Land for Sale. ... 25 acres of first-class land, 18 acres improved, and remainder prairie, 3 miles northeast of Kewanna, on reasonable terms... Les DOWNS, Rochester, Ind.
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Friday, March 29, 1878
DEMOCRATIC TOWNSHIP TICKET
For Trustee, V. ZIMMERMAN. For Justices of the Peace Robert WALLACE, William WALLACE, Dr. C. McCONNEHEY, Hiram CARUTHERS. For Assessor, Al GOODRICH. For Constables, Len DOWNS, Perry MEHRLING, Geo. LUCUS, Keys OWEN
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ROCHESTER UNION SPY, Friday, August 13, 1875
A gentleman from Ohio has purchased LEN DOWNS' farm. This is the sixth family from that State that has settled in this portion of Rochester township during the last three years
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