Peter Patterson Downing and Sarah Jane Hinkle
Husband Peter Patterson Downing 1
Born: 17 Mar 1832 - Hardin Co., Tennessee Christened: Died: 2 Jun 1913 - Hardin Co., Tennessee 2 Buried: - Patterson Graveyard, Hardin Co., Tennessee
Father: William Downing (1803-1872) 3 4 Mother: Effa Patterson (Abt 1805-After 1870)
Marriage: 5 Feb 1873 - Hardin Co., Tennessee 1
Wife Sarah Jane Hinkle 1
Born: 1 Apr 1852 - Arkansas Christened: Died: 20 Dec 1924 - Olive Hill, Hardin Co., Tn 5 Buried: - Patterson Graveyard, Hardin Co., Tennessee
Children
1 M John S. Downing
Born: 15 Jan 1874 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) 1 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M Willie Downing 1
Born: 5 May 1875 - (Hardin Co., Tennessee) Christened: Died: 1875 - (Hardin Co., Tennessee) Buried:
3 F Laura Downing 1
Born: Abt 1876 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
4 F Minnie Pinina Downing 1
Born: Abt 1879 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
5 M James Garfield Downing 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
6 F Mary "Mamie" Downing 1
Born: 9 Jul 1882 - Hardin Co., Tennessee Christened: Died: 3 Nov 1966 - Hardin Co., Tennessee Buried: - Neill Cemetery, Hardin Co., Tennessee
7 M Riley Patterson "Dave" Downing 1
Born: Abt 1884 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
8 M Taylor "Gabe" Bundy Downing 1
Born: 11 Feb 1886 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: 7 Jan 1951 - Vanderburgh, Indiana Buried: - Memorial Park Cemetery, Vanderburgh, Indiana
9 M Thomas Jefferson Downing 1
Born: Abt 1886 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
10 M Hubert Downing 1
Born: 5 Aug 1888 - (Hardin Co., Tennessee) Christened: Died: 1888 Buried:
11 F Nannie Downing 1
Born: Abt 1892 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
12 M Harve Edward Downing 1
Born: Abt 1894 - Tennessee (Hardin Co.) Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Peter Patterson Downing
CENSUS:
<pre>1870 Hardin Co., Tn, Civil District No. 5, p.o. Savannah; July 29; pg 10
59/59
Peter P. Downing 37 MW Tn $--/$735 Farming
Effy " 60 FW NC Keeping House </pre>
<pre>1880 Hardin Co., Tennessee, Civil District 5, ED 45; June 3; pg 3
22/22
P. P. Downing 48 Tn SC NC farmer
Sarah J. " wife 28 Ar Tn Tn Keeping house
John S. " son 6 Tn Tn Tn
Laury T. " dau 4 Tn Tn Tn
Minney P. " dau 1 Tn Tn Tn
Effie " mother 71 NC NC Scotland </pre>
Sarah J.'s birth state is 'Tens' marked out and 'Ark' written beside it.
<pre>1900 Hardin Co., Tennessee, 3 Civil Dist., ED 30; June 5; sheet 3A
53/53
Peter P. Downing Mar 1833 67 Tn Tn Tn M27 Farmer
Sarah J. " wife Jan 1852 48 Ar Tn Tn M27/12/10
Minnie C. " dau Nov 1878 21 Tn Tn Tn S At school
Jim A. " son Sep 1880 19 Tn Tn Tn S Log Cutter
Mamie " dau Jul 1882 17 Tn Tn Tn S
Rily " son Mar 1885 15 Tn Tn Tn S Farm Laborer
Thomas " son Feb 1886 14 Tn Tn Tn S Farm Laborer
Taylor " son Feb 1886 14 Tn Tn Tn S Farm Laborer
Nannie " dau Jul 1891 8 Tn Tn Tn S At school
Harve " son Aug 1893 6 Tn Tn Tn S </pre>
He owns an unmortgaged farm.
<pre>1910 Hardin Co., Tennessee, Civil District Part of 3rd, ED 72; sheet 6B
105/105
Peter P. Downing 78 M37/12/10 Tn Tn Tn Farmer
Sarah " wife 58 M37/12/10 Ar Tn Tn None
Mamie " dau 26 S Tn Tn Tn None
Riley " son 26 S Tn Tn Tn None
Taylor " son 24 S Tn Tn Tn Sawyer/Sawmill
Thomas " son 24 S Tn Tn Tn Farmer
Nannie " dau 18 S Tn Tn Tn None
Harve " son 16 S Tn Tn Tn None </pre>
He owns an unmortgaged farm.
In 1920 Sarah Downing (68, Ar Tn Tn) is living in Hardin Co., Tennessee, in the household of her youngest son Harve.
MIDDLE NAME:
In an e-mail (4/19/2007) Janice Knight states the following about Peter P. Downing's middle name.
I am 99% sure Peter P. Downing's middle name was Patterson. He named one of his sons (my grandfather) Riley Patterson Downing. Laura Downing White got an official birth certificate (I believe in the 1950s) and gave her father's full name as Peter Patterson Downing.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Jane Hinkle
PARENTS:
It is a bit of a mystery who Sarah Jane's parents were. The information on her death certificate was supplied by her son Thomas Jefferson Downing, and it says that her parents were Jesse Hinkle and Sarah Gifford and that she was born April 1, 1852. It also says that she was born in Tennessee, although she said five times in the census that she was born in Arkansas. The 1900 census says that she was born in January, 1852. She is not findable in the 1860 census, and in 1870 she was living in Hardin Co., Tennessee with Peter Patterson and his wife Zebil, whose maiden name was Hinkle.
Sarah Gifford was a daughter of Sylvanus Gifford, who in 1840 was living close to Jonathan Hinkle and whose son Jesse Gifford married Catharine Hinkle (daughter of Jonathan's brother Baltis). The Gifford family and the Hinkle family were certainly acquainted. Sarah was the second wife of David Greeson, whose first wife died in childbirth February 23, 1852. Their first child was born March 2, 1854, and Sarah died December 14, 1857.
Jesse Hinkle was the eldest son of Jonathan's brother William. He married his second wife in 1846 in Tennessee, and in the winter of 1850 they left Tennessee and moved to Izard Co., Arkansas, where some of his siblings and his father had already settled. Jesse returned to Tennessee in the fall of 1852 to testify in the trial of Daniel G. McCarn, who was accused of being an accessory before the fact for an assault and battery with intent to commit murder. The assault occurred in July 1850 in Hardin Co., and the trial was moved to Wayne Co. on a change of venue. See
http://www.tngenweb.org/wayne/circuit13.htm
for information concerning reimbursement to witnesses for their travel and
http://www.tngenweb.org/wayne/circuit7.htm
for general information about the trial. Search for "Daniel G. McCarn".
The following is conjectural, but plausible. Jesse Hinkle returned to Tennessee in the spring or summer of 1851, possibly in conjunction with the trial or possibly for some other reason. He had a sexual relationship with Sarah Gifford, then an unmarried woman, and she became pregnant. Her child was born April 1, 1852 or in January. On February 23, 1852 David Greeson has a newborn baby which needs a mother. Sarah Gifford will soon give birth and have milk, or she may already have given birth. She is available, and David Greeson marries her. Neither are in a position to be choosy. Sarah dies in 1857 after having had 2 more children. After the death of his wife, David's enthusiam for taking care of another man's child wanes, and by 1860 Sarah Jane Hinkle is no longer in David Greeson's household. She is probably in the household of some of her Hinkle kinfolk, possibly in Arkansas. Sarah Jane's fivefold statement that she was born in Arkansas may mean that she remembered having lived there as a small child. By 1870 she has returned to Tennessee and is living with Zebil Hinkle, who is her great-aunt if Jesse Hinkle is her father.
BURIAL:
Find-a-Grave Memorial # 104899778:
Sarah is my 2nd Great Grandmother.
We are not 100% sure that she is buried here, but according to family story we are fairly confident she is.
My husband and I searched the cemetery in 2011 but only a few grave markers were found, 1 being Sarah's sister-in-law Sarah Downing Beckham. We believe Sarah and her husband, Peter Patterson Downing, are in an unmarked graves.
1 Janice Knight, "Descendents of John Downing and Mary Pagan," unpublished.
2 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 104898706.
3 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: jdamewood.
4 "Downing Bible," http://www.biblerecords.com/downing.html.
5
"Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 104899778.
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