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Katherine Robinett Bates made violins, she played herself, as each of her sons grew old enough, she made them a violin and taught them to play it. Her daughter Millie said that if she couldn't learn to play something else she would not play anything, and she didn't.
-----From information provided by Orville Hahn, Leoti, Ks
Age given as 52 in 1930 census.

"Mrs. Millie Downs -- Relatives and friends were saddened to learn of the passing of Millie Downs at her home near Leoti, Kansas on Wednesday morning, July 13, 1938 atg the age of 60 years, 11 months. She has suffered ill health for the past eight years and the angel of death came as a relief from suffering. She was born August 13, 1877 at Washington C. H., Ohio. At the age of five years she moved with her parents, Richard and Catherine Bates, to Clay County, Kansas, settling near Industry.
On February 23, 1898, Millie Bates and Ira Downs were united in marriage at Clay Center. To this union were born eight children, five boys and three girls. They are Lloyd Leroy and Ira Jackson Downs both of Wichita, Kansas, kGlen vernon Downs of Leoti, Kansas, Laura May Hahn of Lakin, Kansas, Leil Emil Downs of Plains, Kansas, Vardie Lucile and Horace Roland of he home and Loie Irel, who preceded her mother in death.
In 2906, the Downs family moved to Western Kansas. In 1911 they moved back to Clay Coounty where they lived until 1916. They then moved back to Western Kansas near Leoti where they have lived since that time.
Mrs. Downs was converted in 1919 and in 1922 she united with the Presbyterian church. She was one of those quiet individuals who lived a consistent Christian life, true to the faith, and one who showed forth the spirit of the Master in her every day life. She won many friends by her unselfishness and thourghtfulness of others.
Mrs. Downs' chief interest was in her home. She was a kind, loving mother and wife, ever putting others before self.l She will be sadly missed by her husband,d children, relatives and many friends.
Mrs.s Fitzhugh Keener, Earl, Francis, James and Miss Fern Downs motored to Leoti to attend the funeral of Mrs. Downs, who was their aunt."--21 July 1938, The (Clay Center, KS) Times

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Family graveyard is located on the Horseshoe turnpike, two miles east of Hummelstown.

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A native of the Palatinate, emigrated to America about 1760, and settled in Derry Township, Lancaster county, now Dauphin County.

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Author of "The Ingomar Papers".

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Was an ingenious mechanic, learned gunsmithing with his father, and during the war of the Revolution was noted for the rifles which he manufactured for the patriot army.

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Is said to have moved to the West.

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Children's last names Zerckel, Zirckel, and Zirckle.

Maria Zirkel m.c. 1748 to a Chriss Ottinger in Montgomery Co., PA. By 1750 he was deceased and by 1755 Maria was in Rockingham Co., VA with some of her children

Alternative birthplace is Telford in Montgomery County, PA

"Maria Eva Bear was the daughter of Jagley "Jack" Jacob Bar/Baer and Mary Wilson.

Note: Some folks say that Maria Eva Bear was born in Germany and then immigrated to America in 1725.

Maria, a Lutheran, married Johann Ludwig Zirkle during 1725 in Telford, Franconia Twp., Montgomery Co., PA. They had 8 children they named George Henry, Catherine, Michael, Maria Margareta, Andrew, George Adam, Ludwig Lewis and Peter Circle Zirkle.

Maria was married a second time after Ludwig's death. She married Christopher Ottinger in 1748. Since there are no markers in the cemetery, we have no way of knowing whether she would have been buried as a Zirkle or an Ottinger."--Find-a-grave

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Appears in page 54 of volume 2 of Knox county Marriage Book.

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Robert attended school in Massachusetts and moved with his family to Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada where he helped on the family farm. Prior to and during WW I he built grain elevators in Alberta, Canada. In the early 1920's he came to California and worked as a carpenter and a mechanic for Southern Pacific Railroad.