Mary A. Downs (1850-1919)

Mary A. Downs was likely born in Somerstown (Somers), Westchester County, New York on 12 Jul 1850, daughter of James Downs and Alice Unknown. She died in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut on 10 Jan 1919. She married first Silas N. Sherman, son of Nichols Sherman and Anna Arsenath Mallett, in Bridgeport on 19 Nov 1861.

She married second William Henry Gregory, son of Joseph Gregory and Sarah Ann Walker in 1880. He was born in Bridgeport on 20 March 1860. He died in Bridgeport on 11 Jan 1920 in Bridgeport.

William Henry Gregory and Mary (Downs) Gregory had the following children:

• Jessie Gregory, b: 20 March 1876, m: Henry Sylvester Flint; d: 03 May 1956
• Bertha May Gregory, b: 27 Sep 1880, m: William Frederick Twiss, d: 12 May 1958
• William H. Gregory, b: 10 Oct 1881, m: Ella Margaret Gallagher, d: 27 Oct 1940
• Howard Gregory, b: 24 Feb 1883, d: 28 June 1883
• Harvey Gregory, b: 24 Feb 1883, d: 18 Sep 1883
• Violet Gregory, b: 08 May 1884, d: 12 Jul 1884
• Baby Boy Gregory, b : 22 Sep 1885, d: 22 Sep 1885