Aseneath A. Downs

Beloved Mother

Aseneath A. Downs
Nov 19, 1869
Dec. 26, 1958

Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales

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1. Obituary

Aseneath Thomas-Downs, daughter of Isom H. Thomas and Martha E. Lee Sims, was born November 19 in the late 1860s while her family resided in south Texas where her father worked on the Laureles Ranch.

She met and married Alexander Stephen Downs (died August 2, 1922 and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery). She lived primarily in Robstown and Corpus Christi until old age necessitated her move to the Kerrville State Home where she died December 26, 1958.

Her son Alexander Downs, deputy sheriff of Nueces County, was killed while monitoring a dance in Robstown at which a fight broke out that left two dead and two wounded

(see Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Oct. 17, 1932 p. 1).

At the time of Aseneath’s death, she was reportedly survived by children Rose Walshe of Kingsville, Virginia Gross of Alice, Terry and Claude and Bob of Robstown, and Clarence of Gary, Indiana as well as 19 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren.

(see Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 12-28-1958 for obituary as well as Robstown Record and Corpus Christi Cathedral Death Records Book 4 p. 37).
 

Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell
Transcription by: Rosa G. Gonzales

 

2. Obituary

MRS. ALEX DOWNS

Caller-Times News Service

Kerrville-Funeral services for Mrs. Alex Downs, 89, who died at her home here Friday, will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Corpus Christi Cathedral. Burial will be in the family plot of the old Bayview Cemetery in Corpus Christi. Before moving to Kerrville she had lived in Corpus Christi and Robstown. Mrs. Downs was born on the Morales* Ranch, where her father was foreman. She was the daughter of Isom H. Thomas, who moved to Corpus Christi in 1852.  After the Civil War, he was employed as foreman at the ranch. Rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Peter Dunne Funeral Chapel in Corpus Christi. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Rose Walshe of Robstown and Mrs. Virginia Gross of Alice; four sons, Terry L., Claude, and Bob, all of Robstown and Clarence of Gary Ind., 19 grandchildren and 48 grandchildren.

Source: Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Dec. 28, 1958
Research by: Ray Phillips, Nueces County Historical Commission
Transcription by: Geraldine D. McGloin, Nueces County Historical Commission

*Should be Laureles Ranch

 

3. Photograph

Provenance: Msgr. Michael A. Howell