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United States Idaho Bannock County Downey

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Downey Chamber of Commerce

City Hall

City of Downey
15 S Main St
Downey, ID
(208) 897-9904

Resources

Biography

Cemeteries

The following are cemeteries in the vicinity of Downey. The principal cemetery for Downey is located within the city limits, but there are several small cemeteries in the rural area nearby.

Church History and Records

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Current

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Downey Wards
310 East Center Street
Downey, ID 83234

Historical

Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers.  There are records of the Downey Ward (1907-1948) in this collection.

Directories

The Idaho State Archives has in its collections copies of city, county, state and regional directories.

Funeral Home

Marsh Valley Funeral Home
421 Center St
McCammon, ID 83205
(208) 254-3786
Horsley Funeral Homes
132 W 300 N
Malad City, ID 83250
(208) 766-4330

History

Downey is named for a Mr. Downey one of the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, and the town dates back to the construction of the broad gauge railroad track through Marsh Valley. William Alonzo Hyde was the first settler at Downey; he had a farm and store. His brother George Tilton Hyde joined him in 1895. The Hyde brothers built a hotel and a blacksmith shop and did a good business from the beginning. Irrigated farming not being promising, dry farming was commenced in 1894. The townsite was surveyed in 1894, which was enlarges in 1810. The total population in the Downey Precinct was 1,485 in 1930.

Additional history of Downey, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in:
Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 197.

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Newspapers

Historical

Copies of several newspapers published in Downey are housed in the Idaho State Archives in Boise, Idaho. Among copies in that research facility are:

Downey comet -- 6 Jan. 1939 through 24 Nov. 1960
Downey comet and the Bancroft standard -- 22 Apr. 1938 through 29 Dec. 1939
Downey comet and the Bancroft standard -- 31 May 1945 through 12 Sep. 1946
Marsh Valley echo -- Dec. 1942 through Nov. 1945
Marsh Valley Junior echo -- 1945

School Records and Yearbooks

The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a copy of the 1957 school annual, the Marshopolitan, of North Marsh High School, which serves the cities of Arimo and Downey.

Websites

References

Societies, Libraries and Museums

Downey Public Library
18 N Main
Downey, Idaho 83234
(208) 897-5270

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