Martha Jane Downs

  General Notes:

The 1850 Federal Census for Harrison Co., Texas, Beat 1, page 81B records Doctor W. R. Downs (48 - NC) with his wife H. (36 - Tenn) and children C. (26 - AL/male), M. J. (15 - AL/female), H. F. (14 - AL/female), E. M. (12 - AL/female), D. N. (10 - AL/male), J. A. (8 - AL/male), M. M. (6 - AL/female), and B. A. (1 - Texas/female).

see notes on her husband, Zachariah Hill, for 1860 census facts.

Martha married Zachariah Daniel Hill, son of William Spaulding Hill Sr. and Catherine Seegram, on 3 Dec 1853 in Harrison Co., Texas. (Zachariah Daniel Hill was born in Jul 1833 in South Carolina, died on 3 Nov 1908 in Harrison Co., Texas and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison Co., Texas.)