Lillian
Harriet
Downs
Born in Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Elbert P Downs
and Catherine A (Bailey) Downs
Sister of
Theodore Downs, Kate D (Downs) Humiston, William B Downs, Theodora May Downs and Elbert Seldon Downs
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 73
in Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 May 2016
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Biography
She was born June 13, 1860 in Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. [1] [2]
She is listed as Harriet Downs, age 1m, in the 1860 census. [3]
She is listed as Lillian Downes, age 9, in the 1870 census [4] and as Lillian Downs, age 19, in the 1880 census. [5]
The 1900 census (Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut) lists Lillian Downes b. Jul 1860. [6]
She died in 1934 and is buried in Methodist cemetery in Bethany. She is listed on the headstone with her parents as "Lillian 1860-1934". [7]
She died in 1934 in Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States and was buried in Methodist Cemetery, Bethany, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States. [8][9]
Sources
- ↑ W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908, p. 119.
- ↑ W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records, p. 92. "b. July 13."
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHR3-N1K : Wed Oct 04 18:57:23 UTC 2023), Entry for Elbert Downs and Catharine A Downs, 1860.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7J-P4P : Fri Oct 06 06:55:51 UTC 2023), Entry for Elbert Downes and Catherine A Downes, 1870.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFCR-FHV : Fri Oct 06 10:52:06 UTC 2023), Entry for Elbert Downs and Catharine Downs, 1880.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M97S-9PP : Tue Oct 03 05:55:44 UTC 2023), Entry for Elbert Downes and Catherine A Downes, 1900.
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5100028/lillian-downs
- ↑ D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Bethany Methodist Cemetery, p. 35. http://oxfordpast.net/bethmcemscan35.html.
- ↑ Methodist Cemetery Photograph - Bethany CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem33272.html.
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