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Pioneer Memorial Cemetery ~ Emily C. Townsend
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Townsend, Emily C.
LAST: Townsend FIRST: Emily MID: C.
GENDER: F MAIDEN NAME: Smith TITLE: 
BORN: 26 Apr 1850 DIED: 4 Oct 1889 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Ssalem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
Name of father John T. Smith
Maiden name of mother Mary Jane Ringo
MARRIAGE - "E. L. Townsend, & Emily Smith, m 22 Dec 1869 at house of John T. Smith, D. M. Keene, M. G. Wit: Charles Calvert & George Townsend #1203 pg 468".
1880 OR CENSUS - E. C. Townsand [sic], age 30, b. Oregon, is enumerated with husband E. L., age 40, b. Illinois, occupation teamster, along with Edward, age 9, Chs A., age 7, Claud W., age 3, and Nellie A., age 2, all born in Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
TOWNSEND - At her home in Sale, Friday, Oct. 4, 1889, Mrs. Emily C. Townsend.
The deceased was a daughter of J. T. Smith, of Gervais, and was born April 26, 1856 near Gervais. She was married Dec. 23, 1870 to Ebenezer L. Townsend. She had been sick for three molnths and her death occured at 1:30 p.m., at her home on Front street this city.  She was a sister of Mrs. Charles Calvert and leaves a husband and six children to mourn the early death of a kind and loving wife and mother.
The remains will be taken to Gervais for burial, being interred in the family cemetery. A brief service will be conducted at the residence, 229 Front street this morning at 9 o'clock.
Weekly Oregon Statesman 11 Oct 1889, 8:3
INSCRIPTION: 
Townsend
Emily C.
1850-1889
[shares marker with Ebenezer]
SOURCES: 
Hollin
Saucy Survey  Photographs
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, pg 5B)
Marriage Records of Marion Co., OR, Vol I, pg 79 
WOS 11 Oct 1889, 8:3
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