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John G Downs

Birth	:	1871
Death	:	1935
Burial	:	Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Hampden County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.1208000, -72.7639008
Plot	:	Section 14, Row 6
Description	:	Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel Monday, March 25, 1935 John G. DOWNS, aged 63, well known resident of this city died suddenly when he suffered a heart attack at 7:15 o'clock Saturday night in his shoe repair shop at 107 East Ninth Street. He passed away before medical aid arrived. Mr. Downs had been under the care of a physician since last November because of heart trouble. Saturday evening he had made purchases at a grocery store and meat market in preparation for a family dinner Sunday at his home 1112 South Madison Street. Mr. Downs was repairing a pair of shoes and was... Read More	Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel Monday, March 25, 1935 John G. DOWNS, aged 63, well known resident of this city died suddenly when he suffered a heart attack at 7:15 o'clock Saturday night in his shoe repair shop at 107 East Ninth Street. He passed away before medical aid arrived. Mr. Downs had been under the care of a physician since last November because of heart trouble. Saturday evening he had made purchases at a grocery store and meat market in preparation for a family dinner Sunday at his home 1112 South Madison Street. Mr. Downs was repairing a pair of shoes and was being watched as he worked by Gerald WALLE who has a watch repairing shop in the same room as the Downs shoe shop. Mr. Walle noticed that Mr. Downs seemed to be ill and that he turned off the power of his machine and placed the pair of shoes on a shelf. A second later Mr. Downs slumped to the floor. He gasped but twice before he died. Mr. Walle called Dal BLACK who was standing in front of the shop and with the aid of other passersby placed Mr. Downs on a couch. Dr. Dean STINSON, coroner, was called and pronounced death had been due to a heart attack. The deceased was a life long resident of Fulton county. He was born at the Downs homestead one and half miles south of Rochester on Road 25 on June 26, 1871. His parents were William and Susan (BROWN) DOWNS. Mr. Downs learned to be a shoe maker at the Rochester Shoe Factory and became an expert at that trade. He had worked in shoe factories in many places in the central west. He also operated a dairy farm south of this city. He had been operating a shoe shop here for the past ten years. In a ceremony which was solemnized at St. Joseph, Mich., on June 7, 1899 Mr. Downs was married to Miss Berthe L. PORTER of this city. Mr. Downs was a member of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Survivors are the widow; son Emerson DOWNS, South Bend; a foster-daughter Mrs. Roy GRAVES, French Lick; two sisters Mrs. Maude LOWE of this city and Mrs. William BLACKBURN, Macy; two brothers James DOWNS, Rochester, and Kenneth DOWNS, Chicago and two grandchildren. A daughter Janet [DOWNS] preceded her father in death in 1926. The funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the home with Rev. B. F. FIELDS, pastor of the First Baptist Church in charge. Burial was made in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. SOURCE: Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1935 by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh

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Family Members:

Parent

Susan Brown Downs

(1843 - 1911)

William Downs

(1838 - 1912)

Spouse

Bertha Leona Porter Downs

(1873 - 1940)

Children

Jeannette Evelyn Downs

(1900 - 1926)

John Emerson Downs

(1903 - 1963)

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