• Born: 1859, Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, USA ²
• Marriage (1): Matilda Mae FORNEY between 1910 and 1914 in Manson, Lincoln Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA ¹
• Died: 1927, Iowa, USA at age 68
• Buried: 1927, Manson, Lincoln Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA ³

   Other names for Franklin were Franklin S. DOWNS and Samuel F. DOWNS.¹

  General Notes

Parents
Sylvester Downs 1833  –        1899
Artimenia Lent

First wife:
Adah Ellen Dana 1868  –        1910

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  Burial Notes

Rose Hill Cemetery

  Recorded Events in His Life

• He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 19 June 1860 in Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, USA.

• He appeared on the 1925 Iowa State Census in 1925 in Manson, Lincoln Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA.

Franklin married Matilda Mae FORNEY, daughter of Peter FORNEY and Phoebe Amelia VAUGHN, between 1910 and 1914 in Manson, Lincoln Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA.¹ (Matilda Mae FORNEY was born on 21 September 1872 in Lincoln Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, USA and died in 1953 in prob Iowa, USA.). The cause of her death was died in a car accident with her daughter, Blanche.