His father, James Downard, was a native of Pennsylvania. He spent his youth in Ohio, and from there went to Kentucky, where he was married. His wife was a native of Kentucky. After his marriage he lived in Ohio eleven years, and in February 1823, he emigrated to this (Hendricks) County, (Indiana), and located in Guilford Township. He was an energetic businessman, and was possessed of considerable means. He entered 900 acres of Government land in different parts of the country, a part of the town site of Danville covering one of his land entries. He donated twenty acres of land for county buildings on which the courthouse now stands. Mr. Downard was in early days County Judge. His first home was in Guilford Township, and is now owned and occupied by the State Reform School. He reared a large family to maturity---Mrs. Cynthia Russell, died in Clinton County; Mary Ann, married Rev. Andrew Prather, and died in Texas; Mrs. Jane Burks, residing in Illinois; Mrs. Sarah Little, died in this county; Adam of Danville; Robert R., our subject; David M., of Marion Township; Jonathan, died in California; William, died in Missouri; and Thompson, in Clinton County Ind. James Downard and his wife are both dead.
ADAM DOWNARD, a retired farmer of Danville, is a native of Ohio and was born in Fayette Co., July 25, 1819. When about three years of age he was brought to Indiana by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Curry) Downard, who located on a farm in Guilford Township (Hendricks Co., Indiana) on which the Reform School building at Plainfield is now situated, and where he lived till he was twenty-two years of age.
Judge of Hendricks Co., Indiana. See Biographical sketch of Clinton Co., Indiana by Claybaugh, p 851, under name of Thomas Douglass Russell. Also in Bohm's Clinton Co. History and Genealogical, p 289 it states that he was born in Pennsylvania and married there to Elizabeth Curry. He came to the Northwest ca 1811, migrated to Kentucky then to Indiana.
Voted on 8-3-1846 in Clinton County. Gave the land for the Boy's School in Plainfield, Indiana and donated the land for the courthouse in Danville, Indiana.
Gravesite has been obliterated (2002). Remains of individuals in the general vicinity were moved to Maple Lawn Cemetery in Plainfield, Indiana, per law, to make room for housing. See newspaper article describing the state of the cemetery in late 1800's, "scattered stones", "unreadable".
Voted in August 3, 1846 elections in Clinton Co., Indiana.
First bought property in Hendricks Co., Guilford Twp in 1825: ESE sec34 15N1E 80 acres. Nov. 14, 1822.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
James Downard
Jacob Downard Jr.
William Downard Jr.
Jacob Downard Sr.
William Downard Sr.
122 26 Doward James 1 2 1 . 2 . . 1 . . . . . . . 1 2 . . 1 1830 Hendricks Co. Census
translates to 1 boy under age 5, 2 boys 5-10, 1 boy 10-15, 2 men 20-30 and 1 man 50-60
1 girl 10-15, 2 girls 16-20 and 1 woman 40-50.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
ADAM DOWNARD, a retired farmer of Danville, is a native of Ohio and was born in Fayette Co., July 25, 1819. When about three years of age he was brought to Indiana by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Curry) Downard, who located on a farm in Guilford Township (Hendricks Co., Indiana) on which the Reform School building at Plainfield is now situated, and where he lived till he was twenty-two years of age.
Judge of Hendricks Co., Indiana. See Biographical sketch of Clinton Co., Indiana by Claybaugh, p 851, under name of Thomas Douglass Russell. Also in Bohm's Clinton Co. History and Genealogical, p 289 it states that he was born in Pennsylvania and married there to Elizabeth Curry. He came to the Northwest ca 1811, migrated to Kentucky then to Indiana.
Voted on 8-3-1846 in Clinton County. Gave the land for the Boy's School in Plainfield, Indiana and donated the land for the courthouse in Danville, Indiana.
Gravesite has been obliterated (2002). Remains of individuals in the general vicinity were moved to Maple Lawn Cemetery in Plainfield, Indiana, per law, to make room for housing. See newspaper article describing the state of the cemetery in late 1800's, "scattered stones", "unreadable".
Voted in August 3, 1846 elections in Clinton Co., Indiana.
First bought property in Hendricks Co., Guilford Twp in 1825: ESE sec34 15N1E 80 acres. Nov. 14, 1822.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
James Downard
Jacob Downard Jr.
William Downard Jr.
Jacob Downard Sr.
William Downard Sr.
122 26 Doward James 1 2 1 . 2 . . 1 . . . . . . . 1 2 . . 1 1830 Hendricks Co. Census
translates to 1 boy under age 5, 2 boys 5-10, 1 boy 10-15, 2 men 20-30 and 1 man 50-60
1 girl 10-15, 2 girls 16-20 and 1 woman 40-50.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
His father, James Downard, was a native of Pennsylvania. He spent his youth in Ohio, and from there went to Kentucky, where he was married. His wife was a native of Kentucky. After his marriage he lived in Ohio eleven years, and in February 1823, he emigrated to this (Hendricks) County, (Indiana), and located in Guilford Township. He was an energetic businessman, and was possessed of considerable means. He entered 900 acres of Government land in different parts of the country, a part of the town site of Danville covering one of his land entries. He donated twenty acres of land for county buildings on which the courthouse now stands. Mr. Downard was in early days County Judge. His first home was in Guilford Township, and is now owned and occupied by the State Reform School. He reared a large family to maturity---Mrs. Cynthia Russell, died in Clinton County; Mary Ann, married Rev. Andrew Prather, and died in Texas; Mrs. Jane Burks, residing in Illinois; Mrs. Sarah Little, died in this county; Adam of Danville; Robert R., our subject; David M., of Marion Township; Jonathan, died in California; William, died in Missouri; and Thompson, in Clinton County Ind. James Downard and his wife are both dead.
ADAM DOWNARD, a retired farmer of Danville, is a native of Ohio and was born in Fayette Co., July 25, 1819. When about three years of age he was brought to Indiana by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Curry) Downard, who located on a farm in Guilford Township (Hendricks Co., Indiana) on which the Reform School building at Plainfield is now situated, and where he lived till he was twenty-two years of age.
Judge of Hendricks Co., Indiana. See Biographical sketch of Clinton Co., Indiana by Claybaugh, p 851, under name of Thomas Douglass Russell. Also in Bohm's Clinton Co. History and Genealogical, p 289 it states that he was born in Pennsylvania and married there to Elizabeth Curry. He came to the Northwest ca 1811, migrated to Kentucky then to Indiana.
Voted on 8-3-1846 in Clinton County. Gave the land for the Boy's School in Plainfield, Indiana and donated the land for the courthouse in Danville, Indiana.
Gravesite has been obliterated (2002). Remains of individuals in the general vicinity were moved to Maple Lawn Cemetery in Plainfield, Indiana, per law, to make room for housing. See newspaper article describing the state of the cemetery in late 1800's, "scattered stones", "unreadable".
Voted in August 3, 1846 elections in Clinton Co., Indiana.
First bought property in Hendricks Co., Guilford Twp in 1825: ESE sec34 15N1E 80 acres. Nov. 14, 1822.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
James Downard
Jacob Downard Jr.
William Downard Jr.
Jacob Downard Sr.
William Downard Sr.
122 26 Doward James 1 2 1 . 2 . . 1 . . . . . . . 1 2 . . 1 1830 Hendricks Co. Census
translates to 1 boy under age 5, 2 boys 5-10, 1 boy 10-15, 2 men 20-30 and 1 man 50-60
1 girl 10-15, 2 girls 16-20 and 1 woman 40-50.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
ADAM DOWNARD, a retired farmer of Danville, is a native of Ohio and was born in Fayette Co., July 25, 1819. When about three years of age he was brought to Indiana by his parents, James and Elizabeth (Curry) Downard, who located on a farm in Guilford Township (Hendricks Co., Indiana) on which the Reform School building at Plainfield is now situated, and where he lived till he was twenty-two years of age.
Judge of Hendricks Co., Indiana. See Biographical sketch of Clinton Co., Indiana by Claybaugh, p 851, under name of Thomas Douglass Russell. Also in Bohm's Clinton Co. History and Genealogical, p 289 it states that he was born in Pennsylvania and married there to Elizabeth Curry. He came to the Northwest ca 1811, migrated to Kentucky then to Indiana.
Voted on 8-3-1846 in Clinton County. Gave the land for the Boy's School in Plainfield, Indiana and donated the land for the courthouse in Danville, Indiana.
Gravesite has been obliterated (2002). Remains of individuals in the general vicinity were moved to Maple Lawn Cemetery in Plainfield, Indiana, per law, to make room for housing. See newspaper article describing the state of the cemetery in late 1800's, "scattered stones", "unreadable".
Voted in August 3, 1846 elections in Clinton Co., Indiana.
First bought property in Hendricks Co., Guilford Twp in 1825: ESE sec34 15N1E 80 acres. Nov. 14, 1822.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
James Downard
Jacob Downard Jr.
William Downard Jr.
Jacob Downard Sr.
William Downard Sr.
122 26 Doward James 1 2 1 . 2 . . 1 . . . . . . . 1 2 . . 1 1830 Hendricks Co. Census
translates to 1 boy under age 5, 2 boys 5-10, 1 boy 10-15, 2 men 20-30 and 1 man 50-60
1 girl 10-15, 2 girls 16-20 and 1 woman 40-50.
PETITION FOR A NEW STATE (Source: USGENWEB:PA:2/2/05)
(List alphabetized from "The Ten Mile Country and Its Pioneer Families").
Fayette, Washington & Greene Co PA and Ohio & Monongalia Co VA
(From an original petition for a new state located in the
Library of Congress. No date on document. Papers of the Continental
Congress No 48, Folios 251-6, pages 89-96). The names in this petition,
which is not dated, seem at times to be taken from the militia rolls,
and if circulated after 1780 contains names of persons deceased or
moved from the district. There is no attempt to conceal the fact that
the signatures were written by the prime agitators of the movement as
many of those names which appear here could only make their mark.
Inscription
Cemetery has been destroyed, with any found remains moved to the town's main cemetery, put into a mass grave.
Gravesite Details
Obliterated. Housing subdivision now sits on site.
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