Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Downs, Eugene Dwight March 23, 1914
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Lake Odessa Times - FridayMarch 27, 1914

EUGENE DOWNS

An old Resident Passed Away Monday Morning.

Eugene Dwight Downs, who has been for many years a familiar figure on our 
streets, died at his home on Jordan Lake street last Monday morning at 3 
o'clock, after an illness of only three days. He had been ailing for some time 
past but his condition had caused no alarm until on Thursday night, when he was 
taken seriously ill. Dr.Horner was summoned but he was past help and after three 
days of terrible suffering, death came as the only relief for his misery. He 
will be greatly missed, not only by his family, but by a host of warm friends. 
He was an honest man, and we join with his other friends in extending to the 
bereaved family our sincere sympathy.

Deceased was born in Maple Grove Barry county, this state,February 22, 1847.When 
he was but three years of age an attack of rheumatism left him badly crippled in 
one leg, necessitating the wearing of a wooden-leg from the knee down, for the 
rest of his life.

On February 22, 1874, he was married to Clara Stites, who lived but four years, 
leaving at her death one son, Charles Downs, now of Sunfield. After coming to 
Lake Odessa in 1889, he was married to Lucinda Belding on August 25, and to this 
union  was born one daughter

Mr.Downs and his brother-in-law, A. Belding, operated the summer resort for the 
first three years of their stay here, and after the first year bought the street 
sprinkler and had operated it ever since.

Besides the son and daughter mentioned above, he leaves a wife and one sister, 
Etta Stites of Oklahoma, to mourn his departure. 

The funeral is held this afternoon- a short service at the home at 2 o'clock and 
at the church at 2:30, Revs J.C. Royer and J.H. Wilcox officiating. Interment in 
Lakeside cemetery.

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Lakeside Cem.#4-481

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