When John Wesley Townsend was born on 26 April 1841, in Hartford City, Licking Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States, his father, John Townsend, was 29 and his mother, Temperance Householder, was 24. He married Margaret Elizabeth Goodin on 7 February 1863. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dorchester, Saline, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died on 4 February 1919, in Crete, Saline, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Crete, Saline, Nebraska, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Earliest headstone death date in this cemetery is 1856
Oldest memorial in cemetery.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the extremity of a village, from Middle English toun(es)ende. Compare Town . There may have been some confusion with Townson .
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