Miller Downs has been a mystery until I located his grave and this information in 1996. Jerusha Downs white passed along written information about the Downs Family in 1962. She wrote Miller was a soldier in the Civil War. He and Bob Coffman was walking home from the war and stopped at a house and asked to spend the night. They were told that only one of them could stay, so Miller told Bob that he would go on and that was the last they ever heard of Miller Downs. They thought that he had been killed by Bushwhackers. I talked with Mr. Dub Downs of Athens and he said he remembered the talk of Miller never coming home from the war and that Miller's mother grieved him until her death in 1890.
Bob Coffman went home and Miller must have met up with soldiers as he ended up at the battle of Chicamauga.
Miller joined the Co. H 50th Alabama in Anderson, Al and was a corporal and Teamster. He joined in 1861 and was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga in September, 1863 and taken to the hospital. In 1997 Dub Downs, his grandson, Bill , me and my children, Spiro and Maria Rigas went to Macon, Georgia and saw his grave and visited the library. Microfilm records there show he was 25 years old when he died, December 14, 1863 and that he died of severe diarrhea. He is buried in the Confederate Section ( Second Row) of Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. His tombstone reads M.F. Downs Co. H 50th Al.
Rose Hill has a large section of Confederate soldiers with marked tombstones, many from this area.
Mr. Dub and I decided to place a marker to honor Miller Francis Downs in Mitchell Cemetery so that Miller could finaly be home with his family.
Bob Coffman went home and Miller must have met up with soldiers as he ended up at the battle of Chicamauga.
Miller joined the Co. H 50th Alabama in Anderson, Al and was a corporal and Teamster. He joined in 1861 and was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga in September, 1863 and taken to the hospital. In 1997 Dub Downs, his grandson, Bill , me and my children, Spiro and Maria Rigas went to Macon, Georgia and saw his grave and visited the library. Microfilm records there show he was 25 years old when he died, December 14, 1863 and that he died of severe diarrhea. He is buried in the Confederate Section ( Second Row) of Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. His tombstone reads M.F. Downs Co. H 50th Al.
Rose Hill has a large section of Confederate soldiers with marked tombstones, many from this area.
Mr. Dub and I decided to place a marker to honor Miller Francis Downs in Mitchell Cemetery so that Miller could finaly be home with his family.
Miller Downs has been a mystery until I located his grave and this information in 1996. Jerusha Downs white passed along written information about the Downs Family in 1962. She wrote Miller was a soldier in the Civil War. He and Bob Coffman was walking home from the war and stopped at a house and asked to spend the night. They were told that only one of them could stay, so Miller told Bob that he would go on and that was the last they ever heard of Miller Downs. They thought that he had been killed by Bushwhackers. I talked with Mr. Dub Downs of Athens and he said he remembered the talk of Miller never coming home from the war and that Miller's mother grieved him until her death in 1890.
Bob Coffman went home and Miller must have met up with soldiers as he ended up at the battle of Chicamauga.
Miller joined the Co. H 50th Alabama in Anderson, Al and was a corporal and Teamster. He joined in 1861 and was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga in September, 1863 and taken to the hospital. In 1997 Dub Downs, his grandson, Bill , me and my children, Spiro and Maria Rigas went to Macon, Georgia and saw his grave and visited the library. Microfilm records there show he was 25 years old when he died, December 14, 1863 and that he died of severe diarrhea. He is buried in the Confederate Section ( Second Row) of Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. His tombstone reads M.F. Downs Co. H 50th Al.
Rose Hill has a large section of Confederate soldiers with marked tombstones, many from this area.
Mr. Dub and I decided to place a marker to honor Miller Francis Downs in Mitchell Cemetery so that Miller could finaly be home with his family.
Bob Coffman went home and Miller must have met up with soldiers as he ended up at the battle of Chicamauga.
Miller joined the Co. H 50th Alabama in Anderson, Al and was a corporal and Teamster. He joined in 1861 and was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga in September, 1863 and taken to the hospital. In 1997 Dub Downs, his grandson, Bill , me and my children, Spiro and Maria Rigas went to Macon, Georgia and saw his grave and visited the library. Microfilm records there show he was 25 years old when he died, December 14, 1863 and that he died of severe diarrhea. He is buried in the Confederate Section ( Second Row) of Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia. His tombstone reads M.F. Downs Co. H 50th Al.
Rose Hill has a large section of Confederate soldiers with marked tombstones, many from this area.
Mr. Dub and I decided to place a marker to honor Miller Francis Downs in Mitchell Cemetery so that Miller could finaly be home with his family.
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