Wife of Edward Mitchell Townsend.
Obituary - Oyster Bay, L.I., March 4- From Pittsfield, Mass, comes news of the death on Monday last of Mrs. Sarah E. Townsend, widow of Edward M. Townsend, Sr. Mrs. Townsend had been spending the winter at the White Tree Inn, and had been ill but a few days of pneumonia. Mrs. Townsend, since the death of her husband a dozen years ago, had divided her time between the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert C. Townsend of Oyster Bay, and with friends in New England. She was, before her marriage, Sarah E. Day, a daughter of James Ingersoll Day. She was in the seventy-third year of her age, and was first married to William M. Johnson and later to Mr. Townsend. Funeral services were held in Manhattan at St. Bartholemew's Episcopal Church on Thursday.
(The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Sunday, March 5, 1915, page 62; Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920 Deaths, Deaths 1916 vol 69 Peabody-Pittsfield, Sarah E. Townsend, Cert. No. 356)
~from contributor Aislin
Wife of Edward Mitchell Townsend.
Obituary - Oyster Bay, L.I., March 4- From Pittsfield, Mass, comes news of the death on Monday last of Mrs. Sarah E. Townsend, widow of Edward M. Townsend, Sr. Mrs. Townsend had been spending the winter at the White Tree Inn, and had been ill but a few days of pneumonia. Mrs. Townsend, since the death of her husband a dozen years ago, had divided her time between the home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert C. Townsend of Oyster Bay, and with friends in New England. She was, before her marriage, Sarah E. Day, a daughter of James Ingersoll Day. She was in the seventy-third year of her age, and was first married to William M. Johnson and later to Mr. Townsend. Funeral services were held in Manhattan at St. Bartholemew's Episcopal Church on Thursday.
(The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), Sunday, March 5, 1915, page 62; Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920 Deaths, Deaths 1916 vol 69 Peabody-Pittsfield, Sarah E. Townsend, Cert. No. 356)
~from contributor Aislin
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