Note on back of picture: Third row
standing in center: Ethel Downs Watkins;
her left Minnie Downs; 2nd on her right
Dora Downs. Same row far right man
(tallest) holding little boy Lewis
Watkins, little boy Norwood Watkins. Front row l to
r: Third woman in white dress: Adella
Jamison; James W. Jamison; Sina (Roseberry)
Jamison; Edgar B. Jamison; man in center
w/child in front, Harry Downs, the little
girl is Thelma Watkins, his granddaughter;
Edgar B. Jamison, Jr.; Robert R.
Jamison.
Second row 1 to
r: Man in the middle with beard
holding child is most likely Andrew James
Downs, child is Henry "Hank" Watkins, his
great-grandson; same row little boy on far
left is Homer Watkins.
Old woman in front of Andrew Downs is most
likely Catherine (Downs) Jamison, his
sister.
Children named
are all children of Lewis and Ethel Downs
Watkins.
Can you identify
anyone else in this photo? Please let
me know if you can!
Note:
Identification of the Jamisons, Andrew
James Downs and Catherine Downs, was
provided by
Phil
Smith, another Downs descendant.
Thanks, Phil! Notes are also his.
-- Adella Jamison,
wife of James W. Jamison
-- James W. Jamison, son on
Catharine Downs
Jamison; husband of Adella
Jamison.
Bridge
Engineer who supervised the building of old
Main
Street Bridge
in Lafayette
IN.
His
name is on the plaque on the bridge.
-- Sina
(Rosberry)
Jamison (my great Grandmother), wife of
Edgar B. Jamison
-- Edgar B. Jamison (my Great
Grandfather), son of James Wallace and
Catharine (Downs)
Jamison; husband
of Sina
-- Edgar B. Jamison, Jr., son of
Edgar and Sina
Jamison
-- Robert R Jamison, son of Edgar and Sina Jamsion
-- Is very likely Andrew J. Downs, son of
William and Rachel Downs and brother of
Catharine Downs
-- Is
very probably Catharine Downs, daughter of
William and Rachel Downs; sister of Andrew
J. Downs.
Wife of
James Wallace Jamison. First name
sometimes appears as Catherine or Katherine
Jamison.
Worked
as a grain merchant until the store burned
down in the late 1890’s or early 1900’s.
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