FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Downs Township occupies, in the southern tier of townships,
the fourth from the eastern border of the county, and is described as Town
22 north, Range 3, and the northern two tiers of sections of Town 21 north,
Range 3 east of the Third Principal Meridian. Downs was principally a
prairie town, having no timber except Diamond Grove, a small collection of
timber on the Kickapoo, in Sections 5, 6 and 7, and skirting of " Old Town
Timber," along the northern border of Sections 1, 2 and 3, and "Johnson's
Point," a small grove in Section 25-covering in the aggregate scarcely four
sections of the forty-eight which constitute the town.
