THIRD GENERATION

4. Samual Judson Downing was born on 11 Dec 1880 in Rensselaer, Jasper, Indiana. He died on 21 Aug 1956 in Torrance, Los Angeles, Calif.. He was buried on 25 Aug 1956 in Park Lawn, City of Commerce, Los Angeles, Calif.. He has reference number 8528290-24. !CENSUS: 1900 Union Township, Rice County, Kansas; SD #7, ED 234, sht 3.

!CENSUS: 1910 Voorhees Township, Stevens County, Kansas; age 29, born
Indiana.

!MARRIAGE: Little River Monitor, Thursday, December 15, 1904, PAGE #3.
River, Rice Clounty, Kansas.

!DEATH: Los Angeles County, California.

Death certificate, drivers license in my possession.
3 March, 1897 Jinks Downing quit school per the teachers registar, Little

Photograph of headstone. He was married to Mary Ellen Irvine on 13 Dec 1904 in Crawford, Rice, Kansas. He was divorced from Mary Ellen Irvine.

5. Mary Ellen Irvine was born on 15 Jan 1887 in Little River, Rice, Kansas. She died on 20 May 1949 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.. She was buried on 24 May 1949 in Park Lawn, City of Commerce, Los Angeles. She has reference number 8428290-24. !CENSUS: 1900 Galt Township, Rice County, Kansas; Age 13, born Kansas.
CENSUS: 1910 Voorhees Township, Stevens County, Kansas; age 23, born Ks.
MARRIAGE: Little River Monitor, Rice County, Kansas, 15 Dec. 1904. page 3
Kansas State Historical, Society; film L2272
DEATH: Los Angeles County, California; 1949; Certicate in my possession.
Photographs as child with family and as adult, headstone. Little book. Children were:

child2 i. Vivian Leroy Downing.
child ii. Wilmot Irvine Downing was born on 6 Nov 1906 in Little River, Rice, Kansas. He died on 15 Nov 1906 in Little River, Rice, Kansas. !Information provided by Vada La Rue Downing.
child iii. Ura Pearl Downing was born on 7 Oct 1908 in Little River, Rice, Kansas. She died in Sep 1921 in Kansas. She was christened in Kansas. She was buried in Kansas. She has reference number 8-10-88. !CENSUS:1910 Voorhees Township, Stevens County, Kansas.

!DEATH:Teanage.
child iv. Vada LaRue Downing was born on 22 Oct 1910 in Voorhees Twp, Stevens, Kansas. !Lives Long Beach, California.

Harvey selected a nearly completed Baptist chapel for their marriage
location. Vada attended the Church of Christ and Harvey was a Catholic.
Being without children they traveled a great deal by automobile. Vada
never learned to drive. After Harvey's death his 1962 Ford was given
to my father and then to me. Joyce drove that for car several years.
child v. Georgia Beatrice Downing was born on 10 Aug 1912 in Greensburg, Kiowa, Kansas. She died in May 1913 in Kansas. She has reference number 8-10-1988.
child vi. Lylas Aurelia Downing was born on 16 Jul 1915 in Rolla, Morton, Kansas. She died on 15 Mar 1993 in Seattle, King, Washington. She was buried on 19 Mar 1993. !Lived most of adult life in Seattle, Washington.
child vii. Agnes Laraine Downing was born on 10 May 1918 in Rolla, Morton, Kansas. !Known as Babe by all. Lives Atascadero, California.
child viii. Donavan D. Downing was born on 29 Jul 1920 in Rolla, Morton, Kansas. !Lives Tuscon, Arizona.
child ix. Arlene Phillis Downing was born on 6 Jul 1923 in Little River, Rice, Kansas. !Lives Long Beach, California.
child x. Wade Laurel Downing was born on 6 Sep 1925 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.. !Lives East Los Angeles, California. Never married.
child xi. Mildred Colleen Downing was born on 7 Mar 1928 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.. She died on 21 Mar 1993 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Calif.. She was buried on 23 Mar 1993. !Live most of adult life in the Long Beach Calif. area. Worked mostly in the
restraunt business.

Home Return to Table of Contents