When Lillian Downing was born in 1852, in Pike, Ohio, United States, her father, William Washington Downing, was 25 and her mother, Mary Howard, was 25. She married Adam Johnson Neece on 29 November 1868, in Benton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Pee Pee Township, Pike, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Tom Township, Benton, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 January 1893, in Benton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Shawnee Cemetery, Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín (see Dineen ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dun(n)ing, Douning (Old English Dunning, a derivative of Old English Dunna (see Dunn ).
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the hill, an -ing derivative of Middle English doun ‘hill’, equivalent to Downer . This formation is characteristic of Devon (compare Brooking ).
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