History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, Page 267.         (Fairview Precinct)

ROBERT W. DOWNER, son of John S. and Elizabeth W. Downer, was born
February 3, 1843, on the place where he now resides in Todd County,
Ky.  Subject was married January 29, 1867, to Miss Sada K. daughter of
Rev. Robert and Jane A. (Fuqua) Williams, of McCracken County, Ky., and
to them was born one child--Preshie (deceased).  Subject is a nurseryman
by profession, and together with his brother, is extensively engaged in
the nursery business, under the firm name of Downer & Brother, successors
to their father, who established the business in 1834.  They have at all
times eighty acres of nursery stock, and graft or bud annually over
250,000 apple, 200,000 peaches, 20,000 pears, 15,000 plums, 10,000
cherries, with small fruit, ornamental trees, and other things in
proportion.  He is also a farmer, owning 550 acres of very valuable land
in a high state of cultivation.  In religion he is a Baptist and in
politics a Democrat.

Downer Fuqua Williams
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McCracken-KY

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