Married 2 Oct 1904 - Missouri - Francis Eleanor Morris - 8 children
There is no headstone to photograph. Burial location is in Section 3, Row 4, Grave North West 1/4 A-5
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Hugh Bernard Downey was born in 1877 to Benjamin "Clark" and Margaret "Martha" E. Downey of Clearmont, Missouri. When Hugh was only 7-years old, his father Benjamin died. Hugh was the oldest boy of four children, and his mother was pregnant with child number five. Life was very hard for a single mother and five children. Hugh had to be the man of the family for the next nine years until his mother remarried.
Hugh married Frances "Fannie" Eleanor Morris on October 2, 1904. Hugh was 25-years old and Fannie a mere 18-years old. Their first daughter and son were born in 1906 and 1908. The young growing pioneer family moved west to Montana in October 1911. Near his brother George, Hugh began farming a quarter section of fertile land about three miles south of Nihill. His family planted crops, raised chickens, and milked cows. To supplem edit:ent his income, Hugh hired out as a section hand with the Great Northern Railway. Over the next eight years, Fannie gave birth to three more children. In the 1920s, Hugh and Fannie divorced. Hugh shifted to more railroad work and labored as a section foreman then watchman.
When Hugh's son Tom returned from serving in the US Army in World War 2, Tom settled in Sacramento. In 1946, Hugh moved in with Tom and lived there until Hugh's death.
There is no headstone to photograph. Burial location is in Section 3, Row 4, Grave North West 1/4 A-5
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Hugh Bernard Downey was born in 1877 to Benjamin "Clark" and Margaret "Martha" E. Downey of Clearmont, Missouri. When Hugh was only 7-years old, his father Benjamin died. Hugh was the oldest boy of four children, and his mother was pregnant with child number five. Life was very hard for a single mother and five children. Hugh had to be the man of the family for the next nine years until his mother remarried.
Hugh married Frances "Fannie" Eleanor Morris on October 2, 1904. Hugh was 25-years old and Fannie a mere 18-years old. Their first daughter and son were born in 1906 and 1908. The young growing pioneer family moved west to Montana in October 1911. Near his brother George, Hugh began farming a quarter section of fertile land about three miles south of Nihill. His family planted crops, raised chickens, and milked cows. To supplem edit:ent his income, Hugh hired out as a section hand with the Great Northern Railway. Over the next eight years, Fannie gave birth to three more children. In the 1920s, Hugh and Fannie divorced. Hugh shifted to more railroad work and labored as a section foreman then watchman.
When Hugh's son Tom returned from serving in the US Army in World War 2, Tom settled in Sacramento. In 1946, Hugh moved in with Tom and lived there until Hugh's death.
Married 2 Oct 1904 - Missouri - Francis Eleanor Morris - 8 children
There is no headstone to photograph. Burial location is in Section 3, Row 4, Grave North West 1/4 A-5
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Hugh Bernard Downey was born in 1877 to Benjamin "Clark" and Margaret "Martha" E. Downey of Clearmont, Missouri. When Hugh was only 7-years old, his father Benjamin died. Hugh was the oldest boy of four children, and his mother was pregnant with child number five. Life was very hard for a single mother and five children. Hugh had to be the man of the family for the next nine years until his mother remarried.
Hugh married Frances "Fannie" Eleanor Morris on October 2, 1904. Hugh was 25-years old and Fannie a mere 18-years old. Their first daughter and son were born in 1906 and 1908. The young growing pioneer family moved west to Montana in October 1911. Near his brother George, Hugh began farming a quarter section of fertile land about three miles south of Nihill. His family planted crops, raised chickens, and milked cows. To supplem edit:ent his income, Hugh hired out as a section hand with the Great Northern Railway. Over the next eight years, Fannie gave birth to three more children. In the 1920s, Hugh and Fannie divorced. Hugh shifted to more railroad work and labored as a section foreman then watchman.
When Hugh's son Tom returned from serving in the US Army in World War 2, Tom settled in Sacramento. In 1946, Hugh moved in with Tom and lived there until Hugh's death.
There is no headstone to photograph. Burial location is in Section 3, Row 4, Grave North West 1/4 A-5
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Hugh Bernard Downey was born in 1877 to Benjamin "Clark" and Margaret "Martha" E. Downey of Clearmont, Missouri. When Hugh was only 7-years old, his father Benjamin died. Hugh was the oldest boy of four children, and his mother was pregnant with child number five. Life was very hard for a single mother and five children. Hugh had to be the man of the family for the next nine years until his mother remarried.
Hugh married Frances "Fannie" Eleanor Morris on October 2, 1904. Hugh was 25-years old and Fannie a mere 18-years old. Their first daughter and son were born in 1906 and 1908. The young growing pioneer family moved west to Montana in October 1911. Near his brother George, Hugh began farming a quarter section of fertile land about three miles south of Nihill. His family planted crops, raised chickens, and milked cows. To supplem edit:ent his income, Hugh hired out as a section hand with the Great Northern Railway. Over the next eight years, Fannie gave birth to three more children. In the 1920s, Hugh and Fannie divorced. Hugh shifted to more railroad work and labored as a section foreman then watchman.
When Hugh's son Tom returned from serving in the US Army in World War 2, Tom settled in Sacramento. In 1946, Hugh moved in with Tom and lived there until Hugh's death.
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