Andrew Downing
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1771 - Fishing Creek, Chester Co., SC Christening: Death: 21 Apr 1844 - Wayne Co., Tn 3 Burial: in Mt. Hebron Cem., Houston, Wayne Co., Tn Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Downing (1744-1802) 4 Mother: Mary Pagan (Abt 1746-1832) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Jones (14 Apr 1772 - 12 Mar 1847) 1 2 Marriage: Abt 1790 - (Chester Co., SC) Children: 1. Mary Downing (1791-1857) 2. Katherine Downing (1793- ) 3. John Downing (1796-1863) 4. Ann Downing (1799-1855) 5. Alexander Downing (1801- ) 6. William Downing (1803-1872) 7. Elizabeth Downing (1805-1808) 8. James M. Downing (1808- ) 9. Sarah Downing (1811-1881) 10. Andrew P. Downing (1813-1815) 11. Jonathan J. Downing (1816-1885)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1790 Chester Co., South Carolina; pg 180
Andrew Downing 102; no slaves
males >= 16 1
males < 16
females 2 </pre>
His father John Downing is contiguous, and Jesse Hinkle lives 5 entries away.
<pre>1810 Chester Co., South Carolina; pg 503
And'w Downing 32010 -- 11210; no slaves
male female
3 <10 1
2 10-15 1
16-25 2
1 26-44 1
>45 </pre>
<pre>1830 Wayne Co., Tennessee; sheet 291
Andrew Downing 13101001 -- 10000201; no slaves
male female
1 < 5 1
3 5-10
1 10-15
15-20
1 20-30
30-40 2
40-50
1 50-60 1 </pre>
Andrew Downing and his wife Elizabeth Jones had 11 children. For a good description of those children and of his parents see the database 'jdamewood' in http://worldconnect.rootweb.com. The youngest child was a son who was 14 in 1830. The 5 younger children in the above census entry are the children of Andrew's daughter Ann, who married Baltis Hinkle in Madison Co., Alabama, and who by 1830 was a widow. She is one of the women 30-40.
In Wayne Co. Andrew lives very close to William and Jonathan Hinkle and their father Jesse.
<pre>1840 Wayne Co., Tennessee
Andrew Downing 000110001 -- 000000101; 3 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15
1 15-20
1 20-30
30-40
40-50 1
50-60
1 60-70 1 </pre>
The male 15-20 may be his grandson William Hinkle. The other grandchildren who were in his household in 1830 are with their mother and her second husband Tyrance Emerson. Andrew Downing lives 6 entries away from his son John Downing.
NOTE:
The following note about Andrew Downing is from the database 'jdamewood'.
The 1790 South Carolina census lists Andrew in Camden District, Chester County. With him in the household at that time were two females. Andrew witnessed a land transaction in 1792.
Wayne County Tennessee 1817-1995: History & Families, pages 198-199, has an entry on Andrew and Elizabeth Downing, submitted by Ronald G. Downing. He quotes C.M. Thompson writing in the 'Clifton Mirror' of November 10, 1905 as follows: 'About a mile above the creek Andrew Downing settled. He came with three sons: John, William and Jonathon to Indian Creek about the same time Brooks did. John Downing settled across the creek at the place N.W. Bratcher now lives. Wm. Downing, I think, went further down the creek, perhaps in Hardin County. Jonathon remained on the homestead until about 1860-1 and moved to West Tennessee.' Ronald Downing believes that Andrew Downing established the Downings along Indian Creek near the present day community of Houston. According to Ronald Downing, Andrew and family left South Carolina about 1815 to head west. Their youngest son, Jonathon Jones Downing, was born in Tennessee, and after that they lived in Madison County, Alabama near Hazel Green, then went to Wayne County, Tennessee sometime prior to September 1828. It was then that Andrew's eldest son's wife Elizabeth was buried in Mt. Hebron Cemetery near Houston Community.
Andrew and Elizabeth wrote a letter from Madison County, Alabama to Andrew's brother John in Darke County, Ohio in January or June 1826. Lori Fox acquired a copy of the letter from relatives in Darke County, Ohio in September 2005. The letter was found with others in Ernest Downing's desk by his grand-nephew's Scott's wife Rochelle. Andrew said in the letter that William Hinkle (married to Andrew's sister Sally) lived within half a mile of him. Andrew said his son John lived within four miles. Andrew's brother Robert, who lived in White County, Tennessee, was visiting him at the time of the letter being written. Andrew and Robert's brother William, who evidently remained in Chester County, South Carolina, had visited Robert not long before. Andrew wrote: "We have all got in a notion of moving to the Province of Texas, we have not any of us seen it as yet, but from information it is superior to any country that has ever yet been settled. Every head of a family gets one league of land by paying one hundred and Eighty Dollars. Examine your geography and let us know whether you are willing to go with us or not." Instead they moved a short distance to Tennessee.
Andrew also noted in the letter that his brother William had told Robert that three of John Gill's family (Ellen, Sally and John) had died last fall, and that Leander was also dead. Presumably this indicates some relationship between Andrew and Leander.
BIRTH PLACES of CHILDREN:
Andrew's youngest son Jonathan, born in 1816, says 4 times in the census that he was born in Tennessee. Andrew P. Downing, the eldest son of Andrew's eldest son John Downing, born in 1820, says 4 times that he was born in Alabama. Andrew's daugher Sarah, born in 1811, says 3 times that she was born in South Carolina and once that she was born in Tennesee.
1 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com db: jdamewood.
2 "Downing Bible," http://www.biblerecords.com/downing.html.
3 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 58712089.
4 Brent H. Holcomb and Elmer O. Paker, Early Records of Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina, 1799-1859, 1980, pg 158. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
5
Faye and William Leigon, Porters of Fishing Creek, 1987, Appendix B. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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