Morgan-Madison-Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Downs, Daniel L. 1840 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  DANIEL L. DOWNS, son of D. L. and Ann K. (Evans) Downs, was born in
Huntsville, December 25, 1840. He received a common-school education, and in
1857 engaged in mercantile business with his father at Tuscumbia. In 1862 he
became a member of the LaGrange Cadets, Company B, Thirty-fifth Alabama
Regiment, was made orderly sergeant, and participated in the attack on Baton
Rouge, August 5th. After six months' service he was sent home on detached duty
under Estes, who promoted him to a captaincy. After remaining in this service
about twelve months, his company was disbanded, and he was ordered back to his
original regiment. With it he was in the column in front of Sherman in Georgia,
and at the engagement of Peach Tree Creek. He went with Hood into Tennessee, and
was in the bloody battle of Franklin, where his regiment lost half its forces in
killed and wounded, and where he received a wound in the leg, which disabled him
for life. After this he was taken to Nashville, and thence to Tuscumbia, where
he became a merchant in 1866, and remained four years. The next four years were
spent at Hartselle, and in 1874 he located in Decatur, where he has since
remained, successfully conducting his business and directing the management of
his farm.

  He is a stockholder in the Decatur Land, Improvement and Furnace Co., and in
one of the banks.

  Mr. Downs was married in 1867 to Miss Jennie F., daughter of William and
Minerva (Stephenson) Burleson. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and also of the Knights of Honor.

  D. L. Downs. Sr., was a native of England, and married there to a Welsh lady.
They had a family of five children, whom they brought with them to the United
States in 1836, and settled at Huntsville, Ala. The subject of our sketch was
the only child born to them in America, and the five of English birth are now
all dead. The senior Mr. Downs was a shoemaker by trade, but in 1857 engaged in
general merchandising at Tuscumbia, and accumulated considerable property. He
died while on a visit to his son at Franklin, Tenn., in 1864.

  Wm. Burleson, Mrs. Downes' father, was a planter and a son of Jonathan
Burleson, a pioneer and Indian fighter, and one of the first settlers in Morgan
County.


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Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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