Marion F. Downard and Dora Anna McManaway
Husband Marion F. Downard 195,333,334
AKA: Marion Ervin 190 Born: 12 Mar 1857 - Milton, Jackson, OH 190,151,195,335 Christened: Died: 9 May 1952 - Wellston, Jackson, OH 151,336 Buried: 11 May 1952 - Wellston in Ridgewood Cemetery, Jackson, OH 336
Father: Samuel B. Downard (1819-1889) 190 Mother: Clarrissa Ervin (Abt 1831-After 1900) 190,195
Marriage: - This couple did not marry
Other Spouse: Emma Jane Tucker (1857-1943) 333 - 18 Jan 1879 - , Jackson, OH 333
Noted events in his life were:
• Religion 337, Church of the Latter Day Saints - Milton, Jackson, OH
• Obituary 338, The Wellston Telegram, 15 May 1952 - Wellston, Jackson, OH
Marion Downard Succumbs Friday
Pioneer of Wellston Passes on at Age of 95 after Eventful Career
Marion Downard, only survivor of the early settlers who knew the city of Wellston when it was only the Bundy meadow and Dempsey farm, was laid to rest in Ridgewood cemetery Sunday afternoon. The funeral, directed by the Gaskill Service, was conducted by Rev. Kenneth Kriebel of the Church of Latter Day Saints of which Mr. Downard had long been a member.
Death came to the early resident Friday noon at 12:30 o'clock at the age of 95. For several years he had been disabled by illness and advancing years. He had lived long in retirement at his cottage south New York ave., at Ninth st., with his memories of a long industrious and useful life.
His wife, who was Emma J. Tucker before their marriage Jan. 18, 1879, has been dead several years. She belonged to a prominent Milton township family, as did Mr. Downard to another family long located east of Wellston. They had no children, but reared four boys and girls as their own. One is Mrs. Florence Wilson of Louisville, Ky., and another foster son, Herschel, was killed in a mine accident.
Marion Downard was born at Mt. Carmel, seven miles east of Wellston, March 12, 1857. He grew up in that neighborhood, although while yet a boy 13 years old, he came to the Sam Dempsey farm to work. The Dempsey home was a log house in an apple orchard west of Pennsylvania ave., immediately north of the present Ely filling station. Until a half-century ago, a rail fence wormed its way around the Dempsey homestead.
The Downard lad's brief and sketchy education was obtained in the little brick schoolhouse, maintained by Milton township, about where the Catholic rectory now stands. It was before there was any Wellston, and Mr. Downard recalled early teachers there, among them David Montgomery and W. H. Middleton, father of Attorney Howard Middleton, and later a noted jurist. Another teacher there was the late Mr. J. E. Sylvester.
Marion Downard was familiar with the charcoal furnaces that flourished in this region. Born four years before the Civil war started, he saw in boyhood and young manhood the whole busy span of Lincoln Furnace, Latrobe, Buckeye, Hamden and Cincinnati furnaces, all soon to blow out for the lst time.
Up to the last, he remembered clearly when Harvey Wells came here in 1873 to lay out a town at Milton Switch, a whistle stop on the Portsmouth branch of the Marietta & Cincinnati Ry, later to be renamed the C. W. & B., and at last the B. & O. R.R. About the same time, Harry Willard came up from Portsmouth to develop the Wellston No. 2 coal and establish the first furnace.
He recalled when the Milton shaft reached the coal seam 80 feet below and when Milton Furnace blew in for its first cast.
Mr. Downard even to the end, could remember many stirring incidents in the 79-year history of this city, for he had played his part in its development.
For many years he was employed on Hiram G. Lasley's farm in the north end, but prior to that he had worked in the coal mines and had worked as a carpenter building houses. He recalled that when he first came here, there were only farm houses along the country roads, beginning with the beautiful Lasley home, now owned by Dr. H. W. Gillen, and coming down the Berlin road to the Austin home, for the last 50 years the Abraham Clutts homestead, at the south end.
Between were perhaps 10 farmhouses, including the Shearer home, now the Ben Dial residence; the Musgrove home, and others belonging to the Dempseys and Phillips and McGhees and Austins.
All his people have gone on long since, except a half-brother, Theodore Bartlett of Wellston. There are numerous nephews and nieces and more distant relatives. But the Wellston he knew best had been passing out of his knowledge in recent years, and he was content to go.
Wife Dora Anna McManaway 151
Born: Nov 1860 151,196,343 Christened: Died: 8 Feb 1936 - Wellston, Jackson, OH 344 Buried: - Wellston in Ridgewood Cemetery, Jackson, OH 344 Child-Par.Rel.: Father: 151
Father: Abslum McManaway ( - ) 344 Mother: Mary Jane Salisuran ( - ) 344
Other Spouse: Eri M. Persons (1856-1927) 344 - Abt 1892 - , Jackson, OH
Other Spouse: Unknown ( - )
Noted events in her life were:
• Alt. Birth 344, 14 Nov 1867 - , Pike, OH
• Obituary 345, The Portsmouth Times, 10 Feb 1936 - Portsmouth, Scioto, OH
Mrs. Dora M. Perkins
Native of Pike County Succumbs in Son's Home in Wellston
Wellston, Feb 10--Mrs. Dora Perkins, 70, widow of Eri Perkins, died at the home of a son, William McManaway.
Mrs. Perkins had been ill for two years.
Born in Pike county, she was the daughter of Absolem and Mary Jane McManaway.
She is survived by two children, a son, William, in whose home she died, and Mrs. Hugh Mullen, Wellston route 2.
Her only sister, Mrs. Villie Potts, died at Oreton a few years ago. Thirteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were held today at the Wellston United Brethren church, Rev. L. B. Mignerey officiating. Burial followed in Ridgewood cemetery in charge of Gaskill and King.
Children
1 F Retta M. McManaway 151
Born: 15 Aug 1878 - , Jackson, OH Christened: Died: 13 Oct 1944 - Milton, Jackson, OH 151 Buried: 16 Oct 1944 - MIlton in Ridgewood Cemetery, Jackson, OH 151Spouse: Hugh Mullen (Abt 1869-1954) 151 Marr: Abt 1905 - , Jackson, OH 198
General Notes: Husband - Marion F. Downard
This couple had no children. Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints. 337
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