Townsend, Ira S. LAST: Townsend FIRST: Ira MID: S. GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 1 Feb 1829 DIED: 6 Jan 1894 BURIED: 7 Jan 1894 (William C. Brown Cemetery) OCCUPATION:  Farmer BIRTH PLACE:  Jackson Co., Missouri DEATH PLACE: Oregon NOTES:  1850 OR CENSUS - Ira S. Townsend, age 21, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Hannah Townsend, age 40, b. Tennesse, along with John, age 18, b. Missouri, Alfred, age 16, b. Illinois, James M., age 15, b. Illinois, and Jesse B., age 14, b. Illinois. MARRIAGE - Ira S. Townsend & Miss Busely [Beersheba] Smith, m 17 Dec 1853, Thomas Lovelady. J. P. 1870 OR CENSUS - Ira S. Townsend, age 41, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with Barsh, age 38., b. Missouri, along with James, age 15,. b. Oregon, and George, age 14, b. Oregon. 1880 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Salt Lake, ED102, sheet 445 A)  Ira S. Townsend, age 52, occupation farmer, b. Missouri, is enumerated with wife Bersheba, age 48, b. Missouri, along with James Townsend, identified as newphew [of Ira], age 21, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon. Also enumerated is Henry N. Gregg, age occupation farm hand, b. New York. BIOGRAPHICAL: "Immigration of 1847" Townsen, Ira S. Born in Jackson County, Missouri in 1829, and lived in that State and illinois until 1847, in whch hear he crossed the plains to Oregon. Took up a donation claim near Perrydale, in Polk County, where he sitll resides. Was first lieutenant in Captain Hayden's Company in the Yakima war. Was married in 1853 to Miss B. F. Smith, and has two sons, James H., a attorney at Dallas, and George N. Source - Lang, Herbert O. HISTORY of the WILLAMETTE VALLEY. Himes & Lang, 1885, pp 687-8    PHOTOGRAPHS - The picture of Ira Townsend is shown courtesy of David Kromer. OBITUARY:  TOWNSEND - At the farm home three quarters of a mile from Perrydale, Polk county, Saturday, Jan. 6, 1894, Ira F. [S.] Townsend, in his 65th year. Mr. Townsend came to Oregon in 1847 and settled on the donation claim. He leaves a wife of two sons - Jas. F. Townsend, a lawyer at Dallas, and George N. Townsend, Manager of Knapp, Burrell & Co's store in Salem, to mourn his loss. The funeral took place at 10 a.m. yestersay under the auspices of the Masonic lodge of Amity. The interment took place in Brown's graveyard, two miles north of Dallas. Capital Journal 8 Jan 1894, pg 4 INSCRIPTION:  Ira S. Townsend Born Feb. 1, 1829 Died Jan. 6, 1894 SOURCES:  Saucy Survey & Photographs Kromer Collection 1850 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #131)  Polk County Oregon Marriage Records, 1849-1879, pg 6 1870 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., FA #582) Lang, pp 687-8 CJ 8 Jan 1894, pg 4 CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: