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             Husband: Leverett DOWNS (1 2 3 4)
                Born: 1796 (5 6 7)
             Married:
                Died: 1859 (8 9)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (10)
              Father: Felix DOWNS
              Mother: Phebe DOWNS
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Anna ATWATER (11 12 13 14 15)
                Born: 1801 (16 17 18)
                Died: 1895 (19 20 21)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (22)
              Father: David ATWATER
              Mother: Lydia SHEPHARD
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Laura DOWNS (23 24 25 26)
                Born: l 1829 (27)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Cornelia DOWNS
                Born: l 1832 (28)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Robert DOWNS (29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41)
                Born: 10 MAR 1835 in Bethany, New Haven, CT (42 43)
                Died: 1907 (44)
              Buried: in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT (45)
             Spouses: 
04               (F): Mary Ann DOWNS (46 47 48)
                Born: l 1837 (49)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Clarissa F. DOWNS (50 51 52 53 54 55 56)
                Born: 08 APR 1842 (57)
                Died: 03 JAN 1915 (58)
             Spouses: S. SEARS

Footnotes

  1. 1840 Oxford Census.
  2. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  3. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 8.
    A short distance farther we come to the Downs Homestead, located on the corner of the main road which was formerly used to go to Oxford Center by way of Riggs Street. This home was built in the later years of the 17th century, and was occupied as early as 1840 by Leverett Downs, who was the father of five children, one son and four daughters.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-08.html.]
  4. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... Moved to Oxford, Ct., in 1836, lived on the northly slope of Chestnut Tree Hill.
  5. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  6. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  7. Ibid., vol 1, p 85.
    ... Leverett Downs of Oxf.
  8. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  9. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  10. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  11. 1850 Oxford Census.
  12. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ her son Robert.]
  13. 1870 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ her son Robert.]
  14. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Living w/ her son Robert.
  15. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  16. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  17. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 85.
  18. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  19. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  20. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 1, p 85.
  21. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  22. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  23. 1850 Oxford Census.
  24. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ mother at brother Robert's home.]
  25. 1870 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ mother at brother Robert's home.]
  26. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  27. 1850 Oxford Census.
  28. Ibid.
  29. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 135 - 136.
    ... came to Oxford ... 1836 ...
    His farm was located at the corner of Chestnut Tree Hill and the now unused dirt roadway Downs Road, which leads over the hill to Riggs Street in the vicinity of Jack's Hill Road....
    ..Civil War, enlisting in August 1862...Company H. 15th Connecticut Volunteers ... battle of Fredericksburg and the siege of Suffold ...c aptured in the battle of Kingston, N. C., and taken to Richmond ... paroled and taken to Annapolis ... went to Newborn N.C., for his final discharge.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp135.html.]
  30. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 157.
    15th Regiment Infantry, Conn. Volunteers.
    [Civil War
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/157.html.]
  31. Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889), 609.
    Fifteenth Regiment Infantry
    Company H ...
    Privates:
    Downs, Robert
    Residence: Oxford
    Date of Enlistment: Aug. 18, '62
    Date of muster in this organization: Aug. 25, '62
    Remarks: Cap'd Mch. 8, '65. Kinston, N. C. Par. Mch. 26, '65. M. o. June 27, '65.
  32. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 514.
    The War of the Rebellion ...
    Soldiers Furnished by the Town of Oxford ...
    Fifteenth Regiment Infantry, C. V. ...
    Downs, Robert, private company H, August 8, 1862. Mustered out June 27, 1865, Newbern, N. C.
  33. 1875 Oxford Agricultural Society ((http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/oxford-ag-society.html)), 23.
    Chairman of Committee.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/oxford-agricultural-society/1875_23.html.]
  34. 1850 Oxford Census.
  35. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  36. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  37. 1900 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ Eldridge Downs.]
  38. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    R. Downs. Chestnut Tree Hill Road, at the road that goes to Jack's Hill .
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868GunntownArea.jpg.]
  39. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 8.
    A short distance farther we come to the Downs Homestead, located on the corner of the main road which was formerly used to go to Oxford Center by way of Riggs Street. This home was built in the later years of the 17th century, and was occupied as early as 1840 by Leverett Downs, who was the father of five children, one son and four daughters. Rober, the only son, lived at home until the commencement of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 15th C.V. and served during the war. On his return home he devoted his time to farming and kept many bees; he also built a dam near the headwaters of Towantic Brook and stocked it with several kinds of fish. He died March 22nd, 1907.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-08.html.]
  40. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 122.
    ... member of the Methodist church in Naugatuck and was one of Oxford's most respected citizens.
  41. Ibid., 117.
  42. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Mar 1836.
  43. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 121.
  44. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  45. Ibid., #15.
    Downs, Robert, born 1835, died 1907, G.A.R,., Post 40, Co. H. 15 Reg. Conn. Vols.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  46. 1850 Oxford Census.
  47. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ mother at brother Robert's home.]
  48. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  49. 1850 Oxford Census.
  50. Ibid.
  51. 1860 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ mother at brother Robert's home.]
  52. 1870 Oxford Census.
    [Living on her own, with only her one year old son Clayton.]
  53. 1880 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ mother at brother Robert's home.]
  54. 1900 Oxford Census.
  55. 1910 Oxford Census.
    Living w/ son Clayton and family.
  56. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  57. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #12.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan12.html.]
  58. Ibid., #12.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan12.html.]

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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