Arthur Downing, Vernon
ART'S FAMILY
In 1900 Scandia, Republic County, Kansas, Thomas Downing is farming, born November 1845 in Illinois,
married 28 years to Sarah C. Sept 1851 Ohio. She's had nine kids, eight living. Lucy M.
was born June 1882, Lloyd E. May 1891, both in Kansas.
Thomas is buried in Scandia 1845-1929, # 135382675,
with Sarah Catharine (Brown) Downing 1850-1909, # 137164025.
Their children were
Clara J. Downing Sothers
1871–1949,
James Edwin Downing
1876–1963,
Emily M. Downing Tebow
1878–1961,
Mary Lucy Downing Weislogel
1883–1938, and
Arthur Henry Downing
1886–1958.
In 1905 Scandia, Kansas, Thos. Downing is 59,
Sarrah Downing 55,
Lulu Gatchel 22, Art Downing 18,
Lloyd Downing 13, Mayme Gatchel 1, and
Earnest Gatchel 7 M.
December 1911 Wray "Art Downing has purchased the
Musselman meat market and will soon continue the
business.
Art Downing and John Foreman attended the wrestling
match at Laird Monday night."
Arthur Downing and Amanda "Lehman" married in Yuma County on April 28, 1912.
March 1914 "Art Downing moved last Sunday
to a place he has rented northwest of Yuma."
March 1915 Yuma "T. G. Downing, who had been visiting
at the home of his son, Arthur, north of town for a week
or more, departed Wednesday evening for Scandia,
Kansas, to visit a daughter."
July 1915 Yuma "Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lohman, of Vernon,
were here Sunday, visiting their children,
Mrs. Art Downing, Ed and Miss Nora Lohman."
February 1913 "Mrs. Lou Weslough is visiting her
brothers, Ed, Charles, and Art Downing for two weeks."
Arthur and Amanda Downing divorced in Washington County, Colorado, in 1935.
Arthur Downing, 50, married Florence Smith on February 6, 1937 in Greeley.
In 1940 Arthur H. Downing is in Loveland, Colorado 53, Florence G. 43. He's a laborer, and was in Otis, Colorado in 1935.
Arthur Henry Downing 1886-1958 is buried in Polk County, Oregon # 30213162.
So is Florence Grace (Shackley) Downing 1896-1996, # 30213163.
"Florence was the first born of five children. Her parents had a homestead in NE Colorado not far from where her two sets of grandparents lived. It is believed that she taught in a one room schools in the Burdette, Washington County, Colorado, which is very likely to have been the school that she was educated in.
Her sister, Anna was the next born, and then her brother, Floyd, then another sister Agnes, and finally another brother Billy.
It is believed that Florence married her first husband, Raymond Smith prior to her family moving to Arvada, which is near Denver in 1920. It is believed that she and her husband moved sometime after 1920 to Sibylee, Albany, Wyoming where they raised their family.
It was prior to my birth but it appears that Raymond Smith died and Florence married Arthur Downing. The Downings lived in Dallas OR where I visited them a number of times as a young teenager. Arthur died while I was in the service and Florence then lived with Eugene [Gene] Smith, who I think was an adapted son and his wife. It appears that upon her death her remains were returned to Dallas where she is buried with Arthur."
J. C. Akey and Carrie Slick married in Yuma County on April 29, 1906.
1940 Yuma County J C Akey
56
Amanda Akey
53
E Frank Akey
83
Iris Downing
10
Amanda Akey
Birth
27 Feb 1887
Death
13 Dec 1944
Burial
Grandview Cemetery
Wray, Colorado,
Memorial ID
16981449
Amanda Lena Lohman, daughter of August and Louise Lehman, was bom February 27, 1887 at Aurora, Nebraska, and passed, away December 13, 1944, at the age of 07 years, 9 months and 16 days. She came to Vernon with her parents in 1892. In the year of 1930 she took her two weeks old niece Iris Downing to raise as her own. In the year 1937, she was united in marriage to J. C. Akey and made her home on a ranch near Vernon until a year ago, when she moved to Wray to put Iris In school. She leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, J. C. Akey, - her foster daughter, Iris Downing, four sisters, Carrie Cox, Lydia Cuney, Addia Bowman all of Wray and Nora Triplett of Otis; four brothers, William Lehman of Denver, Edward Lohman of Callente, California, Arthur Lohman of Wray and Daniel Lohman of Newhall, California, and a host of relatives and friends. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at Lockwood Mortuary and burial was at Glendale cemetery near Vernon.
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