Hi Willie, First, keep in mind when doing genealogy, you will find many mistakes in Census records, and death records also. The informant who is giving the info, might know next to nothing about their loved ones. I noticed on the death cert. for William Downs, it is marked out by the mothers name, I believe it reads Minnie Vulgosh. I did locate a Minnie Downs buried in Galveston, but I believe it is just wrong on the death cert. I believe William,s mother may have been Elizabeth Thomas, after doing some research myself. This is some info on your family and some websites that will be helpful in your search. Hope this helps. Good Luck. Bryghtstar
This would be William Downs and Savanna Hibbard
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=do...;
You can find many of your family by searching here.
http://www.findagrave.com/You will find death cert and census records here.
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#startThese are some trees done on your family. be careful and double check all the info yourself. I do believe these to be more correct, there are more, but I did see mistakes in them. You can use them as guide lines, which is very helpful.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...