Calhoun County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Dowding Sr., James , 
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Cemetery:           Oakridge Cemetery
Name:               James , Dowding Sr.

Date Of Photograph: July 2009
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James , Dowding
b. 9 May 1832  /  d. 22 Apr 1898

Additional Comments:
James Dowding Sr. was the youngest of nine children born to Robert and Elizabeth
Haskett (nee) Dowding. He was born in England.

Research suggests that James Dowding may have arrived in New York on 3 May 1851.
 There was a James Dowding on the passenger list of the SS Cosmo originating out
of England, Port of Departure Glasgow, Scotland arriving in the USA through the
Port of New York. There is no record of James in the 1850 Census, however there
is a record of James Dowding in the 1860 Census in Calhoun County.

Around the year 1854, at the age of 22, James married his first wife.  A Rebecca
Jenks who gave him three children, all girls, before her death in l860 in Lee
Twp. / Calhoun County.

On 27 August 1861, James married his second wife, Mary Jane Langridge.  Together
they had eleven children, seven boys and four girls.

According to Jame's Death certificate, his occupation was listed as that of a
farmer.  He was 65 years/11 months/22 days at the time of his death.  The
informant of his death was S. L. Dowding (most likely his Son Stephen Luke
Dowding) The cause of death was listed as accidental as a result of a runaway
team of horses that appears to have resulted in a spinal injury causing
paralysis of the lower limbs, ultimately leading to his death.

James Dowding was my Great Great Grandfather. 

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