Person:James Down (4)

James date of birth taken from his registration card for service in WWI. ALT date of birth from OBR: 6 Jan 1894.

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR - August 10, 1923 Funeral services for James R. Down, 30 years old, 4135 Boulevard place, who died Wednesday at the Methodist hospital, will be held at 3:15 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. It will be a Masonic funeral with services at both the home and at the cemetery. It was announced that a firing squad would be provided from Fort Benjamin Harrison to officiate at the grave. Mr. Down was a captain in the Reserve corps, besides having been a lieutenant in the quartermasters corp during the war when he served twenty-three months overseas..

Mr. Down was born in Utica, N.Y. and lived in Indianapolis for eighteen years. Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Down; his widow, Mrs. Coral M. Down, and Barbara, a 3 weeks old daughter.

INDIANAPOLIS STAR - August 11, 1923 LODGES AND CLUBS. MASONIC-DOWN--Called meeting of Masonic lodge No. 35, F. and A. M., Saturday afternoon, Aug. 11, at 2 o'clock in Masonic temple to attend funeral of our late brother, James R. Down, Master Masons invited. H. J. Stombaugh, W. M. W. L. Evans, Secretary.

1. ↑ United States. Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Microfilm Publication M1509, 1987-1988).
2.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
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4.   Obituary.