OBITUARY - MARY TERESA (BARLOW) DOWNING

Submitted by: Diana Smith

Source: "Seattle Daily Times."  Seattle, King Co., Washington.  19 Jan 1926, 
p. 7

"Woman Pioneer of Cowlitz Taken by Death"

Kelso, Tuesday, Jan. 19---Mrs. Robert Downing, pioneer resident of Cowlitz
County, who crossed the plains in 1852 when a child of 8 with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Barlow, who took up a donation land claim on the Columbia River
below Mount Solo, died at Vancouver, Wash., yesterday.  She was born in Detroit,
Mich., October 21, 1844, and was the last of seven children.  For the last forty
years she and her husband have lived at Vancouver.  They had no children.  Mrs.
C. H. Olson of Kelso is a niece, and E. B. and B. L. Barlow of Kelso are
nephews.
   Mrs. Downing attended the organization meeting of the Cowlitz County Pioneer
and Historical Society last summer, and is the second of the charter members to
die, Eugene McCorkle having been the first.