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Rosella Lucille Robinson Downs
28 May 1842 – 15 Jan 1925
| Birth | 28 May 1842 |
| Death | 15 Jan 1925 |
| Cemetery | Henton Cemetery Henton , Shelby County , Illinois , USA |
| Added by | ancestree on 07 Jul 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70824096 |
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SHELBYVILLE NEWSPAPER 1/14/1925 MRS. ROSELLA DOWNS DIED AT HER HOME NEAR HENTON LAST THURSDAY MORNING AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS. SHE WAS THE WIDOW OF THE LATE JOSIAH DOWNS. MRS. DOWNS WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY ON MAY? 1942 AND WAS A DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM ROBINSON. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOSIAH DOWNS WHEN A YOUNG WOMAN. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN, MRS. RITA REEDER, MRS. DELBERT STORM, MRS. ED SARVER, ALL OF THE HENTON NEIGHBORHOOD AND SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO CHILDREN OF A PREVIOUS MARRIAGE, MRS. GODMAN AND MRS. REYNOLDS, A STEP SON HENRY DOWNES OF SHELBYVILLE AND TWO STEPDAUGHTERS, MRS. DAVID MCDONALD OF WESTERVELT AND MRS. JOHN BECKETT OF ASSUMPTION. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH AT HEATON AT TWO OCLOCK FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH REV. O. P. WRIGHT, PASTOR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT WESTERVELT, OFFICIATING, ASSISTED BY REV. H. I. GREEN. MUSIC WAS FURNISHED BY A QUARTET COMPOSED OF RUTH PEA, RETHA RITTGERS, JOHN WALLACE AND ROSS PIERCE, WITH MRS. ROSS PIERECE AT THE PIANO. THE CASKETBEARERS WERE GEORGE RITTGERS, THOMAS PEA, JAMES ARMSTRONG, JOHN BELSER, CHARLES RITTGERS AND FRANK LARGENT. INTERMENT WAS IN THE HENTON CEMETERY. OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
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- Sarah Jane Huntington Godwin 1864–1958
- Elizabeth Catherine Huntington Reynolds 1868–1951
- George Washington Downs 1875–1960
- Minnie A. Downs Pea 1877–1937
- Solomon Robertson Downs 1880–1952
- Louetta Downs Crook 1883–1956
- Julia Anna Downs Storm 1886–1975
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