When Jane Townsend was born on 23 March 1826, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Col Dyer Townsend, was 36 and her mother, Lucinda Button, was 34. She married Hamilton Hovey Westcott on 24 June 1863. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1850 and Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 March 1913, in Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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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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