The Downings of Choccolocco
Volume 1: The Descendants of James Downing (abt 1788 to abt 1866)
Authored by Anna D Allen
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Note: copies of this book are in the Anniston Public Library in Anniston, Alabama, the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, and the Family History Library is Salt Lake City, Utah.
By 1816, even before statehood, the Downings had arrived in the wilderness of Alabama, led by James Downing. His origins are the stuff of family lore and speculative reasoning, but he eventually fathered sixteen children. First settling in St Clair County, Alabama, the Downings moved into Coosa County and Calhoun County, until the devastation of war scattered the family and sent many to Texas and beyond.
Thoroughly researched and sourced, The Downings of Choccolocco: The Descendants of James Downing documents for the first time three complete generations of his known descendants, in both name and blood, along with a fourth generation-the Downings of Choccolocco, Calhoun County, Alabama.
438 pages divided into four major sections:
- The Children of James Downing and Mary Meharg, daughter of Archibald Meharg
- includes grandchildren and great-grandchildren
- The Children of James Downing and Mary Clark
- includes grandchildren and great-grandchildren
- The Children of Lewis S Downing and Martha Adeline Brothers, daughter of Patton Brothers and Elizabeth Love
- includes grandchildren and some great-grandchildren
- The Children of John Erasmus Downing and Adeline Eunice Morris, daughter of Isaac G Morris and Julia Baugh
- includes grandchildren
Census records, obituaries, maps, 6 scans of Bible pages, & 13 family trees
Photographic portraits and snapshots
12 transcribed family letters - 4 with scans of the originals - all more than 100 years old
Sources and citations
More than 1700 footnotes
Indexed
9 Appendices on the Love & Brothers family, the Meharg & Coker family, the Cooper-Belton family, slaves and former slaves, Downing veterans, and more.
Names included (but not limited to):
Archibald Downing and Elizabeth Cameron of Coosa, Calhoun, St Clair, & Etowah Counties, Alabama- Harvey (of Hill, TX), King (of Van Zandt, TX), Langley, Monroe (of St Clair, AL & Washington, AR), Smith (of Etowah)
Susan Downing Autrey and Enoch Autrey of Shelby County, Alabama & Phillips County, Arkansas- Autrey (of Talladega), Merrell, Nickolson (of Coosa), Peirce, Smith (of Coosa & Talladega)
Mary Ann Downing Jones and George W Jones of Coosa, AL, and Rusk, Robertson & Coryell, TX- Jones, Morrow, Smith, Peck, Vancleave (all of Texas)
Thomas Jefferson Downing and Charity Mira Autrey of Calhoun County, Alabama- Downing (of Van Zandt and Stephens, TX), Brothers (of Calhoun, AL), Bowden (of Oconee County, Georgia), Mitchell, Lane (both of Texas)
Jincey Downing and her son Jesse B Downing of Robertson & Coryell Counties, Texas- Downing, Crawford, Jenkins, McDorman, Titsworth (all of Texas)
William P Downing, Nancy Caroline Meharg, and Mary Reed of Greene and Calhoun Counties, Alabama- Martin, McAdams, Moore, White (all of Calhoun, AL)
Lewis S Downing and Martha Adeline Brothers of Calhoun County, Alabama- Downing, Carroll, Cowden, Garrett, Green, LeCates, McClanahan, Nelson, Pattillo, Standley
Martha Rosa Downing Henderson and Preston A Henderson of Calhoun (AL), Jones & Haskell Counties (TX)- Henderson, McLain, Hanna
Sarah Downing Thompson of Calhoun County, Alabama
Counties included (but not limited to):
Alabama - Calhoun, Coosa, Etowah, Talladega, Shelby, St Clair
Arkansas - Phillips, Lee, St Francis, Washington
Texas - Coryell, Haskell, Hill, Jones, Kaufman, Robertson, Runnels, Rusk, Stephens, Van Zandt
Publication Date:
Apr 23 2014
ISBN/EAN13:
1497423376 / 9781497423374
Page Count:
438
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
8.5" x 11"
Language:
English
Color:
Full Color
Related Categories:
Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry