༺✿✿✿༻ LOVING MEMORY ༺✿✿✿༻

Lettis Elizabeth "Lettie" McCracken Townsend 

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March 31, 1840 – October 24, 1927

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. 

Published in the Itemizer Observer, of Dallas, Oregon on Thursday, October 27, 1927.

NOTES: 

MARRIAGE - John W. Townsend & Lettie E. McCracken married December 7, 1854; H.M. Waller MG. Wit: Ira S. Townsend & John Bealy [Polk Co, Oregon]

1900 Oregon 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)

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 Simpson (b. Missouri); lived in town 18y; interment Brown cem, Dallas; informant Jessie Townsend of Salem.

From the PolkCountyCemetery.org website.