Marian Denton

- 1874

• Name	Marian Denton
  Birth	Delaware Co., NY
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Mar 1874
  Person ID	I8412	forneyclark
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	William Townsend,   b. 1 Feb 1829, NY d. 6 Feb 1895, Nuckolls Co., NE (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	24 Nov 1851	Bradford Co., PA
  Children	1. Mary Ellen Townsend,   b. 4 Feb 1870, Tonica, La Salle Co., IL d. 23 Apr 1945, Springfield, Lane Co., OR (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F3334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  ******** Source: SEE LOIS E. BRANCH'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=loisebranch&id=I55425 The Branch Ranch - A Roundup of Our Ancestors: Lois E. Branch: {7-2008: The following info has not yet been posted to Lois E. Branch's site.] History of Gage County, Nebraska: A Narrative of the Past, with Special ... By Hugh Jackson Dobbs Published 1918: Page 632 WILLIAM TOWNSEND. — The late William Townsend merits a tribute of honor in this history by reason of his having been a sterling pioneer of Gage county and a citizen of prominence and influence in Hanover township, where he reclaimed and improved a fine farm property and where the little hamlet of Townsend was named in his honor, he having been appointed postmaster in the community in 1874 and the postoffice having been established in his home, the locality thus being given his name, even as was the postoffice. Mr. Townsend was born in Delaware county, New York, February 1, 1829, a son of Moorehouse and Anna (Johnson) Town- send, the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of the old Empire state, where their marriage was solemnized. Moorehouse Town- send was twelve years old at the time of the family removal to the state of New York, and after leaving school he followed a seafaring life until he was about thirty years old, when he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1864 he removed with his family to LaSalle county, Illinois, where he remained until 1870, when he became one of the pioneer settlers of Gage county, Nebraska. He passed the remainder of his life on his farm, in Hanover township, where his death occurred in 1878, his widow having survived him by a number of years and having been of venerable age at the time of her demise. They were survived by four children — William, subject of this memoir; Eunice, who became the wife of Daniel Griffin; Caroline, who became the wife of William Barrett; and Wallace, who was a resident of Beatrice at the time of his death. William Townsend was reared under the invigorating discipline of his father's farm and gained his early education in the common schools. In Bradford county, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of November, 1851, he married Miss Marian Denton, who likewise was born in Delaware county, New York. In 1866 Mr. Townsend removed with his family to LaSalle county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming on rented land. In 1870 he came to Gage county, Nebraska, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of unbroken prairie land in Hanover township, for which property he paid seven dollars an acre. He reclaimed and developed in this township a valuable farm estate of three hundred acres, and here he continued his residence until 1892, when he removed to Nuckolls county, his death having there occurred on the 6th of February, 1895. The wife of his young manhood was called to the life eternal on the llth of March, 1874, 633 WILLIAM TOWNSEND and of the eight children of this page 633 union five are living : Robert resides at Fort Morgan, Colorado ; Duane is a resident of Ranier, Oregon ; Mrs. Emma Cox maintains her home in Beatrice, as does also John, who was the next in order of birth ; and Mary is the wife of Theodore Bohnstedt, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume. In 1876 Mr. Townsend married Mrs. Mary Jane (Shearer) Post, a native of Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of one child, Cora Belle, Mr. Townsend was a Republican in politics and in addition to having served several years as postmaster at Townsend, he also gave equally effective administration in the office of justice of the peace. He was a lifelong and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his life was ordered in consonance with the faith which he thus professed. ********