Sarah Corson Downs

She always took an active part in the services of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association.

[5] Her ancestry is traced to Dutch (Neswinger, White, and Corson) and English (Addis and Taylor) forebears.

[1] While she was yet an infant, the family moved to Addisville, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which was named for her grandfather, Enoch Addis.

Downs' success as an organizer, was remarkable, her judgment unerring, and her executive powers of a high order.

of New Jersey, dominating the work of the organization in that territory and carrying it forward, by the sheer force of her personality and enthusiasm.

She traveled thousands of miles up and down the State, wrote voluminously, and spoke at hundreds of gatherings.

[1] Downs continued her chosen work almost up to the day of her death, November 10, 1891,[4][a] in East Orange, New Jersey.