Colorado County Citizen, Sept 5, 1878It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of our dear friend, Mrs. R. C. Grace. Our sympathies are extended her bereaved relatives in this their hour of sorrow. WebGeneral Stephen J. Townsend assumed duties as Commander, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command on March 2, 2018, after serving as Commander, XVIII Airborne Corps, the U.S. Armys rapid deployment contingency corps, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Surveyed the Twenty Seventh January One Thousand Seven hundred Sixty four for William Wood Plat certified 6 Nov 1764. They returned, after several months, with favorable reports. The Duke of Sussex surprised viewers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he turned up for the Colbert Questionert segment of the TV show on Tuesday night (28 February). Francis Frede died on January 4, 1851 and is buried in the city cemetery. Dad was born in Alvin, TX when his parents were on their way home from a picnic on February 28, 1941. In 2014 there is a Prosperity Bank building on the lot. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Fifty-eight years of faithful service was accorded her before the great I AM released her from all suffering and toil, saying Tis enough, come up higher. She was a faithful friend, a loving and self-sacrificing mother, a devoted Christian, whose fight in every walk of life, shone with a brilliancy surpassed by few. Donald Earley Townsend was born in 1940. They arrived at Galveston on June 13th, after an eleven weeks voyage. Funeral Services are 1pm Thursday October 8, 2020 at Anderson Funeral Home 1357 E. While their house (1/2 mile on the right from Heart of the Hills) was being built nearby, they lived at the old ranch house without electricity using coal oil lamps. He graduated from Vergennes High School in 1971. Her death may also have been a reason for his leaving North Carolina. George was a music teacher married with 2 daughters living in St Thomas, Elgin, Ontario, when he traveled alone via Detroit to Logen, New Mexico. 1954], and died at his home in Houston, Texas, 21 September 1953. Asa was elected one of the first commissioners. That fake version of Gen. Townsend has a tale of woe: an unfaithful wife who divorced him and an adopted son he plucked from the battlefieldall described in broken English. He was a charter member of the Lafayette Masonic Lodge 34 at LaGrange and later was a charter member of the Fayetteville lodge 34 at Fayetteville in 1859. Mary A. Fink was born in LaGrange on March 30th, 1868. : W.G. Sadly, Theres died of Cholera on their voyage to Canada in 1832 in Buffalo, New York. But it is written dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return, and we are traveling on. When our subject was three years old his father died; the mother married again in 1874. The Townsend brothers enlisted during the Texas Revolution, and Thomas furnished beef and corn from his farm for the army. Visitation will be Sunday, January 29, from 5-7pm at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton. Caspar Fink owned a General Store on lot 172 on the town square. On February 11, 1846 he received an additional homestead grant of 320 acres in Bexar County. Francis Joseph Frede, was born at Coblenz, Hanover on February 13, 1808. According to Ms. Wyatt, Thomas Townsend and his wife, Elizabeth Stapleton, had eight sons and one daughter. [Interment in theGrace Cemetery], Colorado County Citizen, Sept 5, 1878OBITUARY, It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of our dear friend, Mrs. R. C. Grace. Marys parents were born in Germany and Holland and moved to Texas to seek their fortunes in the new Republic. He married Mee Mee (Beth) in Jennings, Louisiana. The 35-year-old shared a video message with fans who have sent love and support to her and her family after her husband Stephen "tWitch" Boss died by suicide at age 40. An autopsy was not performed but it was assumed he died of a heart attack in 1950 when Dad was 9 years old. Georges father was Lewis Fisher, son of George Fischer and Katharina Panter. In her book she says Thomas and his wifewent on a visit to Bullock County, Georgia, where a son, Light, was born in 1808, while they were on this trip to Georgia. The unexpected Civil War closure of the Southern coast prevented her from returning. The journey was made from Galveston to LaGrange by ox-cart. Asa and Rebecca came to the Republic of Texas in 1838. Funeral Services are 1pm Thursday October 8, 2020 at Anderson Funeral Home 1357 E. He served as mayor of Hallettsville an unexpired and two full terms and during his administration the excellent system of water works and the electric light plant owned by the city were constructed. Marys parents were born in Germany and Holland and moved to Texas to seek their fortunes in the new Republic. A. Brodbeck, W. Thulmeyer, and Francis Frede were appointed appraisers. The Family with their son Lewis emigrated to Canada in 1832. Jacob received a land grant in Bexar County (third class headright having arrived in Texas prior to January 1, 1840 but after October 1, 1837). Caspar Fink enlisted July 1, 1861 in Captain Sam Alexanders Company at LaGrange for 90 days for reserve state service. Moses Townsend, Jr. and his wife Mary Agnes Fink were the first of their families born in Texas. They sent two of the brothers, Thomas R. and Spencer B., to investigate the offers and the living conditions. Alice was born Oct. 11, 1873, Lucan, Ontario, Canada; and died May 28, 1956, Houston, Harris County, Texas. Being warned of an impending raid (some say by a friendly Indian) Asa escaped with his family to Columbus, where they remained till the trouble died down. The two cemeteries, however, are quite distinct from each other. Thomass family moved to Texas in the 1830s after he died in Florida. Later scholarship has led to a conclusion that the earliest known ancestor is Benedictus, Lights uncle and that the Texas Townsends are descended from Lights older brother John. She again visited them at the time of the St. Louis Worlds Fair. Visitation will be Sunday, January 29, from 5-7pm at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton. WebThe StephensTownsendMurphy Party consisted of ten families who migrated from Iowa to California prior to the MexicanAmerican War and the California Gold Rush. Moses grew up with his fourteen brothers and sisters. She was born July 19, 1820, died Sept 4, 1878. Still later at the Capital Business College in Austin from which he graduated. In 1848, Francis Frede returned to Germany and married Louise Eilers. Brother of James Townsend; Sarah Thomas; Charles Townsend; Joseph Townsend; Elizabeth Foreman and 3 others; Mary Kennard; Jane Humphreys and Rachel Adams less was an English surgeon, stage actor, anti-vivisectionist and writer. He collected plants in North and Central America. Louise and Francis Frede had one child, Julia Antionette, born at LaGrange on October 8, 1850. His grandfather, Asa Townsend, came to Texas from Georgia in 1836. Stephen, Oliver and Elijah Cobb (sons of dau. In April of the following year he was re-elected for the full term and again elected in 1893, without opposition. They came to Texas in 1840. Donald Fisher Townsend, son of August Emmett Townsend and Velma Blanche Fisher was bornon 22 Apr 1919 in Houston, Texas and died on 13 Sep 1950 in Kerrville, Texas. An honorable and upright citizen. It again fluttered its wings, and after two or three times turning slowly around, it rose and went out at the window. The father, Thomas had a bounty land grant from the war of 1812 which he had lived on from May 1, 1826. The Fisher, Eiler, and Fink families came to Texas from Germany in the 1800s. After the war Fink continued his general store business at LaGrange. Having the desire to expand and own more land, they heard of the land offers in the Mexican State of Texas. At that time it looked to Ms. Wyatt that the Texas Townsends were descended from Light Townsend, the Revolutionary War soldier. Dr. John Townsend, his wife Elizabeth, and her younger brother Moses Schallenberger, were also going west. DSG conveyed by survey unto John Townsend 200 acres situate in Craven County the NE side of big ready Creek bounded to the N.W.by the said Creek and Swamp and all other sides by vacant land Surveyed on the 25th day of Oct 1771. Her family now included an infant daughter Martha Bertha, born in Osnabruck on October 24, 1861. Heinrich Eilers, a relative of Louise, operated an ox-cart train service. After settling in Houston in 1912, he made numerous trips to Mexico, as well as collecting widely in the United States. The cemetery is on the right about one-half mile down that road. He married Elizabeth Stapleton circa 1795 at Marlboro Co., South Carolina. On June 16, 1855 a daughter was born, Louisa Maria, she died in October 11, 1856. early in 1861, Louise left for a visit to Germany taking the older children with her to place in school. To those who remembered his massive frame and Herculean strength, it was sad to see him as he passed among us under the weight of his four score years, leaning upon his staff and tottering to his tomb. Died, at her residence in Colorado County on the 3rd of September, 1878, Mrs. Rebecca C. Grace, of inflammation of the bowels, aged about 58 years. We were not able to determine the location of Gitto Branch. Townsend served with the 82nd Airborne Division , the 7th Infantry Division , the 75th Ranger Regiment , the 78th Infantry Division , and the 10th Mountain Division . Kalu and his common-law wife had arrived in Canada in June 2019, and both claimed refugee protection, the filing states. They have been moved to Dallas, but are as yet unsorted and un-mounted. According to Huxford, Leonard Harper Sr. came to Liberty Co., GA (which was later cut into McIntosh Co.), with his son, Leonard Jr., during the Revolutionary War. It is is well maintained and easily visible from the road. Wharton AQM at Houston. Both of their fathers died while they were very young. However, the location of Millfield is likely within a mile or two south of where present day Delaware Highway 1 crosses the Broadkill River. The Townsends capitalized on the post-war cattle boom, and Asa lived to see the beginning of a political dynasty in Colorado County, forged by his, sons and grandsons, that would last into the Twentieth century. Anton and Julia had nine children. There are no plans to continue the American Botanical Exchange. Georges Mother was Almira Mann, daughter of Elijah Mann and Lois Graves was born on 24 Aug 1832 in Southwold, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. & A. P. R. R., and was in charge of this office until February, 1888, after which he was transferred to Hallettsville. WebSon of John Townsend and Elizabeth Townsend Husband of Elizabeth Townsend Father of Elizabeth Kennard; Hannah Hough; Mary [Skelton] Cary; Stephen Townsend, II; William Townsend and 3 others; ; Brother of James Townsend; Charles Townsend; Joseph Townsend; Elizabeth Foreman; Sarah Thomas and 3 others; ; Half brother of Elizabeth He was the son of Johannes and Anna Maria (Luz) Fink, her parents were Anna Maria (Pfeiffer) and Darran Luz. He received a land grant in what was then Harrisburg County, Republic of Texas, on December 5, 1839. He died 15 Jul 1954 in Houston, Texas. The regiment served there until April 1865 without any combat. in Atlanta, GA, there are four headgrants issued to Leonard Harper and perhaps his son, Leonard Harper Jr. Kampmann and Caspar Fink were appointed appraisers, of Fredes estate and filed inventory on September 2, 1852. Mom and Dad (Ron and Anne) lived in the garage apartment of the duplex. He had a brother, Anton B. Frede. http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Fisher_G_L.pdf. Web456 Stephen Townsend Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 456 Stephen Townsend Premium High Res Photos Browse 456 stephen townsend stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and He was buying property and lending money as early as that date. WebStephen Chapman Townesend (1860 May 1914) F.R.C.S. Exec/Trus: son Stephen Townsend. He died on 14 Oct 1887 in Yarmouth Twp, Ontario, Canada. Townsend and his wife, Melissa, have two adult children -- an Army captain and an Army veteran, according to his official Army biography. In the spring of 1864 the regiment was on duty at Galveston and was stationed along the Texas coast throughout that year and served at Sabine Pass and Matagorda Island. We were unable to document where he resided during the period from 1751 to his appearance in South Carolina in 1764. And lived there until he was three or four years old. During the Sabine Pass Emergency the unit was sworn into full Confederate Service. Our earliest known Townsend ancestor is Benedictus Townsend. [1] Townesend was a stage actor under the name Will Dennis and assisted the Amateur Dramatic Society of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Dr. John Townsend, his wife Elizabeth, and her younger brother Moses Schallenberger, were also going west. He moved the family from Houston to Hunt in 1946 when his father-in-law retired and bought the property in Hunt Texas. His name, with Mustang Prairie as his stated place of residence, appears on the list of petitioners asking the Texas Congress to establish Houston County in 1837. The earliest record we are aware of concerning Benedictus Townsend is a Sussex County, Delaware deed dated 4 August 1736 wherein Benedictus Townsend and Lucilla, his wife, and Mary Light all of Sussex County deed a 300 acre plantation situated on the East and West side of a Branch called The Beaver dam branch to John Light. He removed to what was to become Marlboro County, South Carolina by 1771 where he acquired undeveloped land and continued to raise his family. Dad remembers it took three days and three nights for the family to travel on a train to join Don in D.C. After the war the family moved back to Houston before moving to Hunt, TX along with Gramps and Wee Wee, sometime in 45 or 46. You can also follow the link below to the Townsend Society of America website to learn more about the early family: https://www.townsendsociety.org/cpage.php?pt=8. He worked for the railroads in several jobs. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Dr. John Townsend, his wife Elizabeth, and her younger brother Moses Schallenberger, were also going west. They lived at Gramps (Red Earley) ranch until their house was built. He is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Linda Townsend; son, Stephen Townsend; parents, Clifton Ray "Red" and Lillie Townsend; step-father, Robert Wooley; and sister, Patricia Ann Paulsen. Moses Solon Townsend was the son of Asa and Rebecca Townsend. He was buried along-side his wife in the Borden Cemetery, and his tombstone reads as follows: Sacred to the memory of Asa Townsend, born Marlborough Dist. Stephen Townsend: Spanish land grant in Robertson County. That fake version of Gen. Townsend has a tale of woe: an unfaithful wife who divorced him and an adopted son he plucked from the battlefieldall described in broken English. John Townsend (1740-1786) (ancestor) likely married his wife, Cortney, in Orange County, North Carolina about 1760 and began raising his family there. That same year the brothers started the long move to Texas as they sold their lands in Florida. In 1917 she entered the US at Detroit, MI returning from a 3-month visit to relatives in Canada with daughter Orpha (18). In 1827, when Jefferson County was organized, Monticello became the county seat. After Boss tragic death, his wife, Allison Holker Boss, said in a statement that he was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans. Johns son James Townsend (1763- ) moved into Georgia, with his descendants later moving into Florida. Moses father was born in Florida before the Townsends removed to The Republic of Texas. The location of this land shows it to be some miles east of where Light Townsend (1745-1817) owned 100 acres of land on Hilson Bay on Head of Muddy Creek (now Rogers Creek) that he had acquired from his father, Benedictus. His home and plantation was near the present village of Lax, Irwin County; it was there he died in 1842. He is active in all things necessary for the good of the town, is popular with the people, and well deserves the success that has rewarded his efforts. Web456 Stephen Townsend Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 456 Stephen Townsend Premium High Res Photos Browse 456 stephen townsend stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and Emily Gray Martin, Gentlemen and Their Ladies Gray Family History, states that Leonard fought in the Revolutionary War, participating in the battles of Troy and Sumpter. Julia lived on until December 14, 1942 when she died at the age of ninety two. These were Crown grants from King George III signed by William Bull Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of The Province of South Carolina. Solon received his education in the local schools in Columbus and later at Texas A&M College. George L. Fisher represented a type of vanishing American: the amateur naturalist who makes contributions of lasting value to the science of his avocation [Field and Laboratory 22(1):24, 1942]. His estate was mainly an award of 120 acres bounty land for a single man who died in service and for some money owed him. His estate consisted of property in LaGrange, town lots in Bastrop, 320 acre headrights in Victoria and Washington Counties, plus two promissory notes over $300.00. These Crown Grants were offered as headrights to encourage settlers to come into the wilderness, clear and live on the land. His wife, Susannah, was born 1790 in South Carolina; maiden name unknown. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania), 42 (4): 293313, Fall/Winter 2002, The following info was not edited 1/26/2021 and may or may not be correct.---------------------------------------------------------, Stephen was born in 1700. vandiver.john@stripes.com Twitter: @ john_vandiver Migrated His grave in La Grange City Cemetery was marked with a tall limestone marker. was an English surgeon, stage actor, anti-vivisectionist and writer. From quarters in his garage, he operated the American Botanical Exchange, selling and exchanging plants with individuals and institutions throughout the world, but especially in Europe and in North and South America. 1, 1953 in Burlington, the son of Hebert L. and Anne (Mailhot) Townsend. Most of the Townsends rode with the tide and became successful in the cattle business. He was a good and a worthy man. On August 5, 1863 at Camp Columbus, Texas, Caspar Fink enlisted in Captain Socrates Martins Company A, First Regiment, Texas State Troops. These houses are across the street from the Menil Gallery. Knew the Fink family as a boy. During the Mexican War Leopold, Caspars brother, enlisted in Captain Roberts Company, 1st Texas Volunteers. Browse 411 stephen townsend stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Upon arriving to survey the ground for one of his headgrants (which you could receive by paying a filing fee of $5.00) Leonard found a house had been constructed and someone was living in it. M. S. Townsend died at his home here this morning after a lingering illness, aged 31 years. A great deal of very desirable and most advantageously located property is to be found on the books of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, who is now not only the popular Mayor of Hallettsville, Texas, but a very successful and reliable real estate dealer. LaGrange incorporated on March 4, 1850. Stephen T. Townsend was born in 1959 in Scheinfeld, Bavaria, and was adopted soon after his birth by an American military family in Germany. Use the links above and in the sidebars to explore our family's stories and images. An incident, uncommon and beautiful, occurred a day or two before his death. She was the daughter of Ludewig Bruck, a merchant in Osnabruck, and Marla Anna (Fosters) Bruck. He married Katharina Panter, daughter of Georg Panter and Theres Zink on 22 Feb 1819 in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. He joined the Army and was posted in Washington D.C. to the Army Corps of Engineers. Asa lived past his eightieth year and died in 1876. Location: southwest of FM 1890 about 3.5 miles west of its intersection with State Highway 71, about 100 yards to the South and across a ravine from the much larger Fitzgerald Cemetery. It required three wagons and teams to convey it to the place of destination.. George was born on 29 Jan 1791 in Waldulum, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany and died on 28 Aug 1873 in Port Stanley, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. Their telephone was on a party line with their ring being 2 long and two short rings. In April, 1889, he was married to Miss Mary A. Fink, born in LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, March 30th, 1868, and daughter of Casper and Louise Fink, who came to this State about 1848. in 1883 and F.R.C.S. He afterwards married a second time, and has left a widow to mourn his loss. On April 17 at LaGrange he married Louise Eilers Frede, widow of Frances Frede, who had passed away in the previous year. Rebecca Clack Burford Townsend Grace died, at her residence in Colorado County on the 3rd of September, 1878, Mrs. Rebecca C. Grace, of inflammation of the bowels, aged about 58 years. Many of their descendants now reside in this section. The Lights had lived since at least 1696, when John Light the elder, (Lucillas Grandfather) acquired the 200-acre estate called Millfield. An award was made to the brother and sister Caspar and Elisabeth. Gramps eventually bought a generator (like the ones used with oil rigs-duh!) On 16 July 1910 the family entered the US at Detroit Michigan. The Twenty-first Infantry then returned to Texas and disbanded in May1865 shortly before the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department in June 1865. Donald spent his tour of duty designing pontoon bridges and teaching engineering to army soldiers. 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