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Mrs. John H. Townsend
MRS. J. H. TOWNSEND.
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Mrs. John H. Townsend breathed her last, at her home in the first ward, . on Monday morning, Jan. 26, 1885, after a tedious illness, borne with exemplary patience, and in perfect resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father.
Deceased was the daughter of the late Thomas Tufts, Esq., of Leroy, N. Y., and was born there on the 16th of June, 1814. She married Mr. Y. Townsend in April, 1839, he being then in business in Caryville, N. Y., from whence they moved to Missouri. They came to Flint in 1844, residing on Kearsley street, where Mr. Townsend purchased property and built the residence formerly known as the Bartow House. In 1847 they went from Flint to New York City, and thence to Janesville, Wisconsin, and in 1857 came back to reside permanently in Flint, purchasing one hundred and thirty acres of land from C. S. Payne, in the first ward, and expending considerable means in improving and enlarging his present residence, where he settled with his wife and only child. Here deceased drew around her a large circle of warmly attached friends, and here, as prominent members of society for a period of twenty-eight or thirty years, she and her husband have enjoyed the highest respect of our entire community.
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