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William C. Brown Cemetery ~ Lettie Townsend ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Townsend, Lettie
LAST NAME: Townsend FIRST NAME: Lettie MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: McCracken AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 31 Mar 1840 DIED: 24 Oct 1927 BURIED: 26 Oct 1927 (William C. Brown Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Platte Co, Missouri
DEATH PLACE: Sheridan, Yamhill Co, Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIAGE - John W. Townsend & Lettie E. McCracken md 7 Dec 1854; H.M. Waller MG. Wit: Ira S. Townsend & John Bealy [Polk Co, Oregon]
1900 OR CENSUS - Lillie E. [sic] Townsend (b Mar 1841, MO; md 44y; mother of 10 children, 6 living); enumerated with husband John W. Townsend (b Jan 1831, MO, md 44y), and daughters Mary E. (b Jan 1867, OR, single), Mabel (b Sept 1875, OR, single) and Nellie (b Jan 1885, OR, single)
OSBH DC (Yamhill CO. 1927) #188 - Lettie E. Townsend, female, widowed (John W.), b. 31 Mar 1840 in Platt Co., Missouri, d. 24 Oct 1927 in Sheridan, Oregon at the age of 87 ys 6 ms 23 ds, name of father Nimrod McCracken (b, Missouri), maiden name of mother Effie Simoon (b. Missouri); lived in town 18y; interment Brown cem, Dallas; informant Jessie Townsend of Salem.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 
OSBH DC (Yamhill CO. 1927) #188 - Lettie E. Townsend, female, widowed (John W.), b. 31 Mar 1840 in Platt Co., Missouri, d. 24 Oct 1927 in Sheridan, Oregon at the age of 87 ys 6 ms 23 ds, name of father Nimrod McCracken (b, Missouri), maiden name of mother Effie Simoon (b. Missouri); lived in town 18y; interment Brown cem, Dallas; informant Jessie Townsend of Salem.
OBITUARY: 
Mrs. Lettie Townsend, 88, widow of John Townsend, died at her home in Sheridan on Monday, October 24. 
Funeral services were held at Sheridan Wednesday at 10 o’clock with burial in the Brown cemetery near Dallas. 
Mrs. Townsend was a member of an early pioneer family. She came to Oregon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. McCracken, in 1853. She is survived by four daughters, Mary and Mabel Townsend, Sheridan; Mrs. Anna Reed, Sheridan; Mrs. Nellie Cook, New Grand Ronde; one son, Jesse, of Salem, and three brothers, Jasper McCracken, now 94 years of age, who resides in California; John McCracken, 82, Clackamas county, and Berry McCracken, also an aged man who lives in Idaho. 
Mrs. Townsend was a relative of Mrs. Hulda Savery of Dallas and has many relatives and friends in and near Dallas.
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, October 27, 1927, 9:1
INSCRIPTION: 
No marker
SOURCES: 
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Polk County, Oregon, Marriage Records 1849-1879, p 8
1900 OR CENSUS (Yamhill Co, ED 168, South Sheridan pct, page 155, lines 70-74)
OSBH DC (Yamhill Co., 1927) #188
I-O 27 Oct 1927, 9:1
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