History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . f the lead-ing pulpits in Arizona for more than twelve years. 241—MRS. OLIVIA DOWNS. Mrs. Olivia E. Downs, nee Lemen, was born nearCollinsville, Madison County, Illinois, January 6,1856. She was converted in December, 1872, andunited with the Delmar Avenue Baptist Church, , May 6, 1876. In her eighteenth year, she en-tered Monticello Seminary as a pupil. In November,1877, she met Rev. F. W. Downs, of McKendree Col-lege, Lebanon, 111., and after a personal friendship ofeight years, they were united in marriage September1
History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . f the lead-ing pulpits in Arizona for more than twelve years. 241—MRS. OLIVIA DOWNS. Mrs. Olivia E. Downs, nee Lemen, was born nearCollinsville, Madison County, Illinois, January 6,1856. She was converted in December, 1872, andunited with the Delmar Avenue Baptist Church, , May 6, 1876. In her eighteenth year, she en-tered Monticello Seminary as a pupil. In November,1877, she met Rev. F. W. Downs, of McKendree Col-lege, Lebanon, 111., and after a personal friendship ofeight years, they were united in marriage September17, 1885, at the Laclede Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Thesame evening they took their departure for the farWest, where they have been working ever since inthe mission field of Arizona. They have one child, a son, Robert FrancesDowns, who was born in Safford, Graham County,Arizona, November 1, 1896. 154—HESTER McKINLEY McKinley Dashiell was born near Alton,Madison County, Illinois, April 19, 1834. Whenabout four years of age she moved with her parents. BIOGRAPHICAL. 243 to St. Joseph, Mo.; leaving St. Joseph they wentto Texas; while in Texas she attended the GonzolesSeminary ; after her graduation, at the age ofeighteen, she went with her parents to Sacramento,Cal. In the year 1854, she married W. A. Dashiell,by whom she had twelve children, of whom, ten areliving and two are dead. Becoming dissatisfied withSacramento City, she with her family moved to SolandCounty, where they settled on a piece of land nearDixon. In 1873, when the railroad was built throughDixon they moved to that place, and her husbandwas employed as station agent by the railroad. Afterremaining in Dixon for nearly fifteen years, wherethey sent their children to school, they removed toAuburn, where they remained for nearly three years;leaving Auburn they returned to Sacramento City,where she still resides, with all her children livingwithin a days travel of her. She has five daughtersand two sons m
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