Alexander Downie and Jennie Gray
Fireman in Engine Works
b 1834-5
Scotland
d
b 1838-9
Scotland
d
m 20 July 1855 Castle & Portsburgh, Edinburgh
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Alexander Downie
Paper Maker
b 9 September 1857
Colinton, Midlothian
d 20 September 1902
Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
m 11 July 1862 Stewarton, Ayrshire
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Jennie Grey
b May 1864
Indiana, USA
d 1905?
m 14 February 1883 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
Anna Downie
Married to Earl McMahan
b 2 March 1884
Indiana, USA
d
Madge Downie
Married to Carnie Lester McClary
b 25 September 1885
Indiana, USA
d
William Alexander Downie
Punch Press Operator
b 9 November 1888
Indiana, USA
d July 1966
Marion, Indiana, USA
Alice Downie
Married to J.R. Cline & Charles Partin
b 9 November 1890
Indiana, USA
d 21 May 1958
Indiana, USA
Alma Louise Downie
Married to Elmer Raymond Wilson
b 5 January 1893
Indana, USA
d
Robert James Downie
Grocery Salesman
b 26 August 1898
Indiana, USA
d August 1979
Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
Elizabeth Downie
b 3 January 1901
Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA
d
Alexander Downie met an untimely end when he was shot in the back by 70 year old Dr. John S. Parsons, who had fired on a group of boys who had been taunting him, hitting Alexander in the back and paralysing him. He never recovered and died five months later. The doctor was charged with murder, later reduced to manslaughter, and it appears that a grand jury dismissed the case against him because he had shot Alexander accidentally. The family was left destitute and may have been rescued from poverty by Alexander's brother James, who married his sister in law on 2 September 1905 in Marion County, Indiana. It seems very likely that this marriage lasted little more than a month because the burial of Jennie Downie is recorded at Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis on 17 October 1905, and James appears in the 1910 Census having remarried to Dora Bell Inman, a widow. His nephew, Robert James, is listed as his son.
