John Townsend
(1816-1856)
Temperance Householder
(1817-1893)
Jesse Beecher
(1821-1880)
Elisabeth Trostle
(1829-1892)
Lewis Bailey Townsend
(1844-1927)
Joanna Beecher
(1853-1949)
Fred William Townsend
(1881-1965)

 

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Fred William Townsend 1 2 3

  • Born: 21 May 1881, Hartford City, Blackford, IN 2 3
  • Died: 25 Mar 1965, Montpelier, Blackford, IN, USA at age 83 2 3
  • Buried: 27 Mar 1965, Eaton: Union Cemetery, Delaware, IN 2 3

   FamilySearch ID: LZTR-RJB.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Muncie, Delaware, IN. 4 The 1930 census recorded owning a $5500 home at 414 N. Mulberry Street: Joanna Townsend, widowed, 77, living with her son, Fred W. Townsend, grocery store clerk, 47. She and her parents were born in Pennsylvania. Fred was born in Indiana, his father in New York, and mother in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1940 in Muncie, Delaware, IN. 5 The 1940 census recorded owning a $3800 home at 1015 E. Charles Street: Fred W. Townsend, meat cutter in grocery store, divorced, 59, living with his mother, Joanna Townsend, 87. She was born in Pennsylvania and he in Indiana.

3. Cause of Death: Fred died at Jackson Nursing Home from cerebral arteriosclerosis, senility, 25 Mar 1965, Montpelier, Blackford, IN, USA. 3

4. Residence: 713 W. Franklin St., Hartford City, IN on 25 Mar 1965 in Hartford City, Blackford, IN. 3


Sources


1 Hartford City News Times (Hartford City, IN) (Hartford City, Blackford, Indiana.), 8 Mar 1941. Gilbert Townsend Sr. Came to Washington Township in 1839.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54325749.

3 Ancestry.com, "Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017," Certificate 65-007655. Fred. W. Townsend. Father Lewis B. Townsend. Mother Joanna Beecher. Informant Mrs. Florence Warner, sister.

4 1930 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHMQ-YCN oanna Townsend, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana.

5 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-DYQ Fred W Townsend, Ward 6, Muncie, Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18-34, sheet 19A, family 462.



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