John Downing 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 7 Dec 1776
    Christening: 
          Death: 17 May 1870 -  ( at age 93) 1
         Burial: in Hill Cem., New Madison, Darke Co., Ohio
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: John Downing (1744-1802) 2
         Mother: Mary Pagan (Abt 1746-1832) 2
Spouses and Children 
1. *Margaret Feris (4 Aug 1783 - 13 Feb 1864)
       Marriage:
Notes
General:
CENSUS:

<pre>1810 Chester Co., South Carolina; pg 517
John Downing 10010 -- 21010; 1 slave
male female
1 <10 2
10-15 1
16-25
1 26-44 1
>45 </pre>

His mother Mary Downing lives 3 entries away.

OBITUARY:

At Find-a-Grave Memorial #112001107 from an unknown newspaper:

In Memorium.
John Downing, sen., was born in Chester county, South Carolina, December 7th, 1776, died May 11th, 1870, at the advanced age of 93 years, 5 months and 4 days.
He was one of the earliest pioneer settlers of the country, having emigrated from South Carolina in the spring of 1813, to Bourbon county, Kentucky. After remaining there till the spring of 1815, himself and family struck out again northward and came to Preble county, Ohio, where he stopped temporarily at the then small settlement of New Paris. In a short time afterward he came to Darke county, and settled permanently three miles west of New Madison, entering a section of wild, or Congress land, on a part of which he lived till his death.
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Sources

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 112001107.

2 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.

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