Family:Unknown Downing and Martha Root (1)

Research Notes

• Is husband's name Joshua or James?

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Cooke, Joseph. A Grandfather’s Story and Family Record by One of the Family.

   43. Julia Cooke was born 1808 in Granville, and died 1829 She married Horace Root 1827. She died leaving an infant daugther, Martha Root who was adopted by her mother's aunt Mrs Chloe Adams. In 1850 Martha married Joseph Bistol of Findlay O. who died about a year later; she afterwards married Joshua Downing of Zanesville, Ohio, where she died several years ago.
   
   Child of Julia Cooke and Horace Root is:
   111 i. Martha Root, born Abt. 1828. She married James Downing.