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Solomon Robertson Downs

31 May 1880 – 18 May 1952

Birth	31 May 1880
Death	18 May 1952
Cemetery	Henton Cemetery Henton , Shelby County , Illinois , USA
Added by	janet donner on 10 Aug 2012
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73180005

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SHELBYVILLE NEWSPAPER MAY 23 1952 SOLMON R. DOWNS OF SHELBYVILLE PASSED AWAY AT 11:30 SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18TH AT ST. MARYS HOSPITAL IN DECAUR. HE WAS 72 YEARS OLD. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN SHELBYVILLE AND BURIAL WAS IN THE CEMETERY AT HENTON. ORAN REEDER FORMER FINDLAY MAN WHO NOW LIVES IN JACKSON, MICH. WAS HERE FOR THE FUNERAL. MR. DOWNS WAS HIS UNCLE. HE LEAVES TWO DAUGHTERS, KATHRYN PROSSER OF SHELBYVILLE AND MRS. CHRIS JANSEN OF NEW BERLIN, N. J. FIVE SONS, ROBERT OF BLUE MOUND, RAY OF CHICAGO, CECIL OF DECATUR, CLAUDE OF STONINGON AND RALPH OF FORT MEAD, MARYLAND. HE ALSO LEAVES THREE SISTERS, MRS. CHARLES CROOK, MRS. JULIA STORM AND MRS. SARAH GOODWIN AND ONE BROTHER, GEORGE DOWNS, ALL OF HENTON OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER

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Family

Parents

• Josiah Downs 1830–1910
• Rosella Lucille Robinson Downs 1842–1925

Spouse

• Lucy Jane Bodine Downs 1887–1941 FaG

Siblings

• Lucy Ann Downs 1853–1873
• William Henry Downs 1854–1928
• Electious Hiram Downs 1857–1924
• Sarah Downs McDonald 1859–1949
• Mary Elizabeth Downs Beckett 1861–1950
• Sarah Jane Huntington Godwin 1864–1958
• Josiah Downs 1866–1866
• Elizabeth Catherine Huntington Reynolds 1868–1951
• George Washington Downs 1875–1960
• Minnie A. Downs Pea 1877–1937
• Louetta Downs Crook 1883–1956
• Julia Anna Downs Storm 1886–1975

Children

• Gertrude Downs Owens 1910–1949 FaG
• Robert Solomon Downs 1916–1979 FaG
• Kathryn Jane "Kate" Downs Prosser 1919–2008 FaG
• Cecil Kenneth Downs 1921–1998 FaG
• Claude Elmer Downs 1923–2002 FaG
• Glen Eugene Downs 1925–1925 FaG
• Ralph Edward Downs 1928–2016 FaG

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