Sources & Information:
IGI RECORD - BIRTH - SOURCE - CHRISTOPHER T. DOWNING, male, birth 4 Oct 1840, Monroe, Monroe, Michigan. Parents: Father: Miner Downing, Mother: Amanda M. [no last name given]. Batch No: 7500808, Sheet: 38, Source Call No. 0935328.

After the death of Nancy Sophrona Ellsworth, her husband Christopher Downing, married her younger sister, Rosetta Ellsworth, on 4 July 1871, in Port Huron, Michigan.

At the time of marriage of Rosetta Ellsworth and Christopher T. Downing, she was 18 and he 30 years of age respectively. He being the widower of Rosetta's older sister Nancy Sophrona Ellsworth who died on 25 October 1869. The marriage of Rosetta and Christopher was witnessed by Emanuel Elsworth an older brother and Marilla Bowman both of whom lived in St Clair, Michigan. There is the recorded State of Michigan, St Clair County, Record of marriage No. 1196, on which Christopher is listed as a farmer by trade, Rosetta as living in Marine City, St Clair County, Michigan, at the time of marriage.

The place of death for Christopher Downing varies as follows: Pelican Lake, Minnesota, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, Harrisburg and Alpena, Michigan. All this following a reported long illness of many years. A date of February 4, 1876 was given with heart disease from that contacted in the military service.