Elizabeth Down

Mrs. Elizabeth Down, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Hammot) Cutler, was born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1832, came to Buffalo, N. Y., via Quebec, with her parents in '36, and after two years removed with them to Batavia, N. Y., where they reared a family of eight children of whom five are living. In '57 Mrs. Down, accompanied by friends, came to Kickapoo Town, and here she married William Down, also a native of the same shire in England, whose parents, Thomas and Mary Down, never left England. This William Down left England at the age of sixteen years, came to Batavia, N. Y., there learned the shoemaker's trade, and there met Miss Cutler, to whom he was married December 25, '56, They at once settled in Stark county, where Mr. Down died September 29, '78,—typhoid fever, from which he suffered only one week, being the direct cause. He was collector of this township two terms, and filled the office of assessor several terms Mrs. Down resides upon the homestead, surrounded by her family of six children: John, Mary, Thomas, Samuel, Cora and Bertha. The eldest son, William, is deceased. He married Miss Lizzie Torrington in '82, who died the same year, he following her to the grave in September, '83. Both lie in the Fox cemetery.