Person:Charlotte Downing (4)

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Charlotte A. DOWNING
    m. 31 Oct 1850
    1. Angeline Serepta DOWNING1851 - 1918
    2. Charlotte A. DOWNING1853 - 1929
    m. 3 Mar 1872
    1. Ralph WILKINSON1872 - 1873
    2. Cuba WILKINSON1875 -
    3. Warren E. WILKINSON1877 - 1906
    Facts and Events
    Name Charlotte A. DOWNING
    Gender Female
    Birth? 26 Mar 1853 Locust Grove, Adams Co., OH
    Marriage 3 Mar 1872 Troy, Davis Co., IAto Evan W. Jones WILKINSON
    Death? 1929 Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA
    Reference Number? 170

    1880 Davis Co., IA, census, p.52D, Union Twp., June 4, 1880, N.H. Rosser: 36/37, Charlotte A. WILKINSON, W F 26, head, md. [should be widow], keeping house, OH OH KY; Cuba, W F 4, dau, IA IN OH; Warren E. [looks like Warren g], W M 3, son, IA OH [sic] IN [sic].

    1880-1886, Charlotte md. William Allen; divorced by 1900

    1886 October 3, son Robert Wright Allen was born

    1900 Wapello Co., IA, census, p.361B, Washington Twp., Eldon Town, June 8, 1900, Elmer K. Daugherty: 316 [street not identified], 210/211, Charlotte Allen, head, W F, Mar. 1853, 47, divorced, mother of 3 children, 3 living, OH OH KY, no occupation; Wright, son, W M, Oct. 1886, 13, IA IA OH, at school; Joseph C. Downing, brother, W M, Nov. 1863, 36, single, IA OH KY, barber.

    1910 census; Charlotte Allen has not been located

    1915-1920, Charlotte md. James Henry Murphy; Charlotte was a first cousin of James Murphy's first wife, Mary Elizabeth Downing, who died in 1915

    1920 Los Angeles Co., CA, census, p.11B, Long Beach City, Jan. 12, 1920, Mrs. Emily K. Gilbert: 363/378, James H. Murphy, head, owns home free of mortgage, M W 75, md., VA PA VA, no occupation; Charlotte, wife, F W 66, OH OH KY.

    Charlotte's dau., Cuba Wilkinson Coffin, and family were in Brighton, Adams Co., CO, in 1920; they had been in El Paso, TX, in 1900 and 1910 where Cuba's brother Warren d. in 1906.

    1923 Sept. 23, James Henry Murphy d. in Brighton, Adams Co., CO; buried Iowa Union Cemetery, Phillips Co., KS. After his first wife Mary died in 1915, James went to California where he married Charlotte, Mary's first cousin. They were on their way back to Kansas to visit when he died at the train station in Brighton, Colorado, from a heart attack. My Dad remembers him and said James always came back to visit at least once a year. --Karan Godbout <kgodbout@@networksplus.net>, e-mail, June 10, 2003

    1929, Charlotte d. in Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA

    DOWNING descendant, Susie Hutchinson <SuMartin27@@aol.com>, e-mail, Jan. 18, 2002, to Lucille Gano <lgano@@netins.net>. DOWNING descendant, Karan Godbout <kgodbout@@networksplus.net>, e-mail, June 10, 2003.