Person:Robert Downs (4)

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Robert Downs
b.2 Jan 1790 PA.
d.26 Jun 1872 Prairie Twp., Henry Co., IN
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  1. Sarah Downs1824 - 1888
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Name[1][2] Robert Downs
Gender Male
Birth? 2 Jan 1790 PA.
Marriage to Elizabeth Babbington
Death? 26 Jun 1872 Prairie Twp., Henry Co., IN
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Mr. Downs served two years as a soldier in the War of 1812.

"(Robert) came from Aliquote Iron Works near Baltimore, Maryland, where he had been employed as head furnace boss. He was of Irish extraction and had come to Henry county with Robert Lind, locating on Buck creek, near Luray."

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  1. ↑ History of Henry County Indiana- 1884, Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co.
    Page 759.
  2. ↑ Biographical Memoirs of Henry County, Indiana, B.F. Bowden, 1902.
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