John DOWNING
1860 -

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• Birth	1860
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I334	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret LEONARD,   b. 1875
  Children	1. James DOWNING,   b. Aug 1886   2. Living DOWNING   3. Living DOWNING   4. Living GAREN   5. Living DOWNING   6. Living DOWNING   7. Living DOWNING   8. Living DOWNING   9. Living DOWNING   10. Living DOWNING   11. Living DOWNING   12. Living DOWNING
  Family ID	F00181	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Ida MAE,   b. 18 Nov 1866,   d. 13 Jun 1897
  Family ID	F00182	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  1900 US CENSUS - Joseph LEONARD, age 62, shows up in a 1900 census of Oklahoma Territory, on the Wichita Reservation. He is listed as ?father-in-law? living with D. John Downing and his wife Margaret. John is listed as a farmer, the couple has three children: James, Howard, and Johnie (sic). Margaret, born Feb. 1872, is listed as the mother of two with two surviving. [The additional child is believed to be that of Mr. Downing and a previous wife, who died in 1897.] 1901 ? A 1901 Caddo Indian census shows ?Joe? LEONARD, age 65, as family #230, allotment #958 (see Additional Notes), on Section 27N-8W NW, Patent in fee issued August 19, 1909. John and Margaret Downing and four children are living nearby as family 191, allotment #s 30, 31, 37, 35, 935, 33, and 936, on Sections 7N-9W and 10N-8W. 1915 ? A 1915 census of the Wichita and Caddo Indians on the Wichita Caddo Reservation, by the Kiowa Indian Agency in Anadarko, Oklahoma shows ?Joe? LEONARD as the head of family #445, born in 1836. Margaret LEONARD and John Downing, eight children, and one daughter-in-law are living a short distance away as family #410. Margaret is listed as born in 1875 and John in 1860. [A 1915 obituary for Joseph?s brother James Herron LEONARD states that Joseph is alive and living in Virden (sic Verden), Oklahoma. Jennie has him buried in a Catholic cemetery in Albuquerque, N.M, in September, 1925.] Wilbur LEONARD, a grandson of Edmund LEONARD, apparently contacted Joseph?s daughter, Mrs. D. John Downing, some time later. A note in Wilbur?s handwriting, inserted in JennieLEONARD Hutchinson?s files in the Uniontown (PA) Public Library, lists Joseph?s birth date as 10 Dec. 1937 and his death date as 25 Sept. 1925 ?in Albuquerque, N.M.? Wilbur wrote that Joseph, ?? married a Cado [sic] Indian? Had one son who died in infancy and one daughter Mrs. Marg?t Downing (Mr. Downing was a Cherokee Indian) ? They have 6 children ? all grown & I think all are married ? I know Mrs. Downing has several grandchildren. Mrs. Downing lives 1011 N. Indiana St., Okla. City. She does not know her mother?s maiden name, but knows her mother had three brothers ? Cado [sic] Indians whose names were Lone Tree, Washington, and Big Man.?