William G. Stewart has written a 100 page, illustrated book entitled George Lewis Fisher (1868-1953): director of music and botanist extraordinaire of St. Thomas, Ontario [published St. Thomas, Ont. WebStephen J. Townsend is a United States Army officer who commanded the XVIII Airborne Corps from May 2015 until January 2018. The Civil War brought financial loss, but Texas was spared the destruction and severe hardship experienced by the rest of the Confederacy. Our story starts in 1736 when Benedictus Townsend lived in Sussex County, Delaware with his wife, Lucilla Light, daughter of William Light. The location of this land shows it to be some miles east of where Light Townsend (1745-1817) owned 100 acres of land on Hilson Bay on Head of Muddy Creek (now Rogers Creek) that he had acquired from his father, Benedictus. Anna Sophia Juliana Clara Bruck: Born at Osnabruck, Hanover on January 3, 1800. He married Anna Sophia Juliana Clara Bruck in Osnabruck on January 28, 1823. Where before wealth had been measured in land and slaves, now it was determined by how many cattle you could move to eastern markets. The above suggests that Benedictus Townsend who does not appear on the quit rent scrolls, either removed from South Carolina or died there before 1769 as no further records on him have been found. By 1836 seven of the Townsend brothers were in Texas. She and George are buried at Forest Park Cemetery , Houston, Harris County, Texas, Plot: Section 12 Whispering Pines. It was across the road from the Guadalupe river. Knew the Fink family as a boy. He is active in all things necessary for the good of the town, is popular with the people, and well deserves the success that has rewarded his efforts. Visitation will be Sunday, January 29, from 5-7pm at Eubank Funeral Home in Canton. Stapleton Townsend: Military service land grant 1842 in Fayette County. The 35-year-old shared a video message with fans who have sent love and support to her and her family after her husband Stephen "tWitch" Boss died by suicide at age 40. Velma Fishers parents were George Lewis Fisher (1868-1953) and Alice Melinda Palmer (1873-1956). His grandfather, Asa Townsend, came to Texas from Georgia in 1836. Moses father was born in Florida before the Townsends removed to The Republic of Texas. He is from Germany. All Rights Reserved. Dr. John Townsend, his wife Elizabeth, and her younger brother Moses Schallenberger, were also going west. He studied law for some time and was admitted to the bar in 1891. The house was built on the main road to Kerrville on 12 acres of Gramps property. WebMoses Townsend, Jr. and his wife Mary Agnes Fink were the first of their families born in Texas. The unexpected Civil War closure of the Southern coast prevented her from returning. They have been moved to Dallas, but are as yet unsorted and un-mounted. 1/26/2021 edit Stephen Townsend, Sr, was the son of John Townsend and Elizabeth (NN) Townsend or John Townsend and Elizabeth (Pocoke) Townsend. Possessed of a sound judgment and fine intellect, she was the source of great comfort and assistance to those who sought her advice; ever willing to extend a helping hand to her weaker sisters in their hour of need. Georges Mother was Almira Mann, daughter of Elijah Mann and Lois Graves was born on 24 Aug 1832 in Southwold, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. For a while, Gramps hired someone to run the store but eventually sold it. This office he had charge of until May, 1890, when he resigned. The Townsend brothers enlisted during the Texas Revolution, and Thomas furnished beef and corn from his farm for the army. The family established a Presbyterian Church, Florida Chapel, and founded a Masonic lodge. District court meets tomorrow and the bar, of which he had for several years been a member, will pass suitable resolutions.Post Special LaGrange Journal: Mr. Van Nostrand left last week for Halletsville, where he will erect a fine monument at the grave of Mr. M. S. Townsend. Henry Kaulbach died at LaGrange on May 11, 1919 and is buried there. She died on 04 Dec 1916 in Elgin, Ontario, Canada. LifeSketch:TOWNSEND, StephenWill Made: 10 Jan 1759Heirs: sons William, Stephen, Littlton, Jesse, Noe and Jehu Townsend; daus. She was living at 708 Euclid Avenue in Houston with husband George Lewis Fisher (50) and daughter Orpha Irene (18). He was a charter member of the Lafayette Masonic Lodge 34 at LaGrange and later was a charter member of the Fayetteville lodge 34 at Fayetteville in 1859. Died, at her residence in Colorado County on the 3rd of September, 1878, Mrs. Rebecca C. Grace, of inflammation of the bowels, aged about 58 years. George was born near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada to Lewis and Almira Mann Fisher on September 21, 1868. The earliest South Carolina record we have found on John Townsend is a South Carolina plat dated 25 October 1771 wherein John Bremar, Esq. The Duke of Sussex surprised viewers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he turned up for the Colbert Questionert segment of the TV show on Tuesday night (28 February). [1][2], In 1900, he married Frances Hodgson Burnett in Genoa. Three of the four Benedictus sons removed to what was to become Marlboro County, South Carolina in the 1760s. An autopsy was not performed but it was assumed he died of a heart attack in 1950 when Dad was 9 years old. During the Sabine Pass Emergency the unit was sworn into full Confederate Service. WebStephen Chapman Townesend (1860 May 1914) F.R.C.S. Thomas Townsend (1765-1828)(ancestor) and Light Townsend (1770-1851) also moved into Georgia in the early 1800s and subsequently Florida by the 1820s when public land began to be available in Florida. But it is written dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return, and we are traveling on. That fake version of Gen. Townsend has a tale of woe: an unfaithful wife who divorced him and an adopted son he plucked from the battlefieldall described in broken English. In her book she says Thomas and his wifewent on a visit to Bullock County, Georgia, where a son, Light, was born in 1808, while they were on this trip to Georgia. Thomas died there on 18th of October, 1828. Occasional price lists were printed from type which he set up himself. Thomas and his brother Spencer came to Texas in 1826 to investigate land offered to settlers by the Mexican government. Leonard was born abt. [1] Townesend was a stage actor under the name Will Dennis and assisted the Amateur Dramatic Society of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Alice was born on 11 Oct 1873 in Lucan, Ontario, Canada. Stephen T. Townsend was born in 1959 in Scheinfeld, Bavaria, and was adopted soon after his birth by an American military family in Germany. One tribe was especially detested by the settlers. [Interment in theGrace Cemetery]. He was buying property and lending money as early as that date. As a result, they sold their properties, and they were all in Texas by 1838. We were not able to determine the location of Gitto Branch. Annie Harveys mother, Rebecca Burford, is descended from some of the earliest colonial Virginia planters. A system of sewerage is now being put in. Moses Solon Townsend was the son of Asa and Rebecca Townsend. He grew up in Griffin, Georgia. Kalu and his common-law wife had arrived in Canada in June 2019, and both claimed refugee protection, the filing states. This monument is of Scotch granite and weighs 15,000 pounds. Stephen Townsend died in 1769. In 1861 he saw many of his sons and sons-in-law go off to war some never to return. They sent two of the brothers, Thomas R. and Spencer B., to investigate the offers and the living conditions. , and E.L. Townsend, and a half sister, Rebecca Grace Waller., M.S. Kalu and his common-law wife had arrived in Canada in June 2019, and both claimed refugee protection, the filing states. Bounty grant for military service in the Texas Revolution 1836 in Johnson County. Moses father was born in Florida before the Townsends removed to The Republic of Texas. Mr. Townsend was the member of the state democratic executive committee for the Eighteenth senatorial district. Stephen T. Townsend was born in 1959 in Scheinfeld, Bavaria, and was adopted soon after his birth by an American military family in Germany. Following that he taught two months in the school and then became telegraph operator for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for two years. The reader is encouraged to seek Ms. Wyatts book that contains information on several additional generations of this family in Texas. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Linda Townsend; son, Stephen Townsend; parents, Clifton Ray "Red" and Lillie Townsend; step-father, Robert Wooley; and sister, Patricia Ann Paulsen. Indians were a threat in those days. Broadkill Creek is now called the Broadkill River. The Lights had lived since at least 1696, when John Light the elder, (Lucillas Grandfather) acquired the 200-acre estate called Millfield. Fike and Townsend Family History 2023. Alice was born Oct. 11, 1873, Lucan, Ontario, Canada; and died May 28, 1956, Houston, Harris County, Texas. Townsend graduated from North Georgia College where he earned a bachelors degree in psychology. After a short assignment at Marshall, Texas, during the winter of 186465 the regiment moved to Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Vergennes High School in 1971. On 16 July 1765 he was granted additional land described as Fifty acres in Craven County on the NE side of Pedee River bounded on all four sides by Vacant Land. After the war Fink continued his general store business at LaGrange. In 1859 Jacob and Elizabeth made a donation of five acres of land to St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church with the stipulation that a church, school, and a cemetery be established there. When Florida became a territory of the United States in 1822 Rebecca and Asa moved with his parents and siblings to Madison County and then to Jefferson County Florida. Thomas Townsend (1765-1828) and his wife, Elizabeth, are named on a number of deeds in Marlboro County, South Carolina prior to 1815 and his family is found on the 1800 and 1810 Census of Marlboro County. The link below will take you to an online copy: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/125763/?offset=#page=1&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=. On 16 July 1910 the family entered the US at Detroit Michigan. He is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Linda Townsend; son, Stephen Townsend; parents, Clifton Ray "Red" and Lillie Townsend; step-father, Robert Wooley; and sister, Patricia Ann Paulsen. The land was transferred for divers good causes and consideration of the full and just sum of three pounds lawfull money of America. Dr. John Townsend, his wife Elizabeth, and her younger brother Moses Schallenberger, were also going west. Townsend served with the 82nd Airborne Division , the 7th Infantry Division , the 75th Ranger Regiment , the 78th Infantry Division , and the 10th Mountain Division . It is said that he had the fastest horse of any, having outrun the British on at least one occasion. Augustus Townsend worked in downtown Houston as a Vice President of a finance company. The school was one building with 1st through 11th grade. The cemetery at Ross Prairie remains fairly intact although there have been no burials there in years. August and Velma are both buried near the Fishers in Forest Park Cemetery in Houston, Texas. They then removed to Jefferson County, Florida with some of their uncles and cousins by 1824. He joined the Army and was posted in Washington D.C. to the Army Corps of Engineers. It required three wagons and teams to convey it to the place of destination.. It was Asas son James though, who became the most prominent member of the family during the 1870s and 1880s. : W.G. These Crown Grants were offered as headrights to encourage settlers to come into the wilderness, clear and live on the land. WebSon of John Townsend and Elizabeth Townsend Husband of Elizabeth Townsend Father of Elizabeth Kennard; Hannah Hough; Mary [Skelton] Cary; Stephen Townsend, II; William Townsend and 3 others; ; Brother of James Townsend; Charles Townsend; Joseph Townsend; Elizabeth Foreman; Sarah Thomas and 3 others; ; Half brother of Elizabeth She has gone to the grave, but twere wrong to deplore her, When God was her ransom, her guardian, her guide; He gave her, and took her, and soon will restore her, Where death hath no sting since the Savior hath died.. Upon arriving to survey the ground for one of his headgrants (which you could receive by paying a filing fee of $5.00) Leonard found a house had been constructed and someone was living in it. In Columbus on April 19, 1845, he served on the committee that drafted the preamble and resolution for theannexationof Texas to the United States. They were joined there by their Uncles Light and John along with many cousins from Marlboro District, SC. Velma Fishers grandmother, Almira Manns, ancestors are 17th century New England colonial immigrants. The earliest record we are aware of concerning Benedictus Townsend is a Sussex County, Delaware deed dated 4 August 1736 wherein Benedictus Townsend and Lucilla, his wife, and Mary Light all of Sussex County deed a 300 acre plantation situated on the East and West side of a Branch called The Beaver dam branch to John Light. The last conversation he had just prior to his death was with two daughters who had died years ago, desiring them to come to him, and speaking to them as though they were bodily present and visible to him and who will affirm they were there. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend have two children: August Emmett, born January 11th, 1891, and Moses Solon, Jr., born August 9th, 1893. That same year the brothers started the long move to Texas as they sold their lands in Florida. The day was warm, and the door and window was open, he was lying upon his couch, quiet and peaceful, his wife and daughter sitting by, when a dove of full and beautiful plumage came through the door, and hovering over him, settled down upon his bosom, and without apparent alarm, fluttered its wings. A. Brodbeck, W. Thulmeyer, and Francis Frede were appointed appraisers. George L. Fisher was born at St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, 8 January 1867 [Shinners corrects date to 1868 in Taxon 3(8): 247. The Grave Stone reads as follows: Sacred to the memory of Rebecca L., wife of Asa Townsend, Born in lrwin Co. Georgia October 17, 1805. Follow this link to learn more about his. Marys parents were born in Germany and Holland and moved to Texas to seek their fortunes in the new Republic. He has sixty acres near town, part in pasture, and on this he has some blooded Jersey cattle. His brother in law, Jacob Dirr, filed for letters of administration in September, 1848 to settle the estate. The granting of 200 acres also suggests that John had at least three people (one hundred acres for John and fifty acres for two others) in his household. This prominent citizen was also one of the original stockholders in the Citizens Building and Loan Association. Trouble with Indians wasnt long in coming. Fisher died of kidney cancer at age 86 in Houston, Texas on September 21, 1953. They returned to Florida, sold their holdings, and, with another brother and their families, moved to Texas in the early 1830s. On February 11, 1846 he received an additional homestead grant of 320 acres in Bexar County. in Atlanta, GA, there are four headgrants issued to Leonard Harper and perhaps his son, Leonard Harper Jr. Dad remembers looking up and holding on to the antennae while moving it. Husband of Elizabeth Townsend He was born on 23 October 1830 in Jefferson County Florida, about the time that the Townsends started their move to Texas, and died on 8 Sep 1867 in Columbus Colorado Co., TX. We were unable to document where he resided during the period from 1751 to his appearance in South Carolina in 1764. After Thomass death in 1828 in Jefferson County Florida seven of his sons went to Texas in the 1830s and 1840s. In April of the following year he was re-elected for the full term and again elected in 1893, without opposition. In April, 1889, he was married to Miss Mary A. Fink, born in LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, March 30th, 1868, and daughter of Casper and Louise Fink, who came to this State about 1848. It was for 320 acres of third class headright having arrived in Texas prior to January 1, 1840 but after October 1, 1837. Twelve of whom, 8 boys and 4 girls, lived to be settled with families of their own. His descendants at his death numbered 81, just the number of his years. In April of the same year he was elected Alderman and served until December 15 when, having been elected Mayor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mayor Jesse Green, he entered that office. The family moved to Washington when his son Ron was an infant. However, another possibility is that Benedictus moved back to Orange County, North Carolina after establishing his sons, William and Light on their own land in South Carolina. In 1827, when Jefferson County was organized, Monticello became the county seat. Stephen T. Townsend was born in 1959 in Scheinfeld, Bavaria, and was adopted soon after his birth by an American military family in Germany. The Duke of Sussex surprised viewers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he turned up for the Colbert Questionert segment of the TV show on Tuesday night (28 February). This book is in the collection of McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario. Anton Franz Joseph Eilers was born at Damme, Oldenberg on June 4, 1794/1795; son of Dr. Clemens August Eilers and Maria Agnes (Klumpe) Eilers. Possessed of a sound judgment and fine intellect, she was the source of great comfort and assistance to those who sought her advice; ever willing to extend a helping hand to her weaker sisters in their hour of need. Lewis Fishers parents were George Fischer, son of Joseph Fischer and Anna Maria Pfeiffer. Caspar Fink was awarded custody and guardianship of Julia Antoinette Frede, infant daughter of Francis and Louise. They returned to find their home vandalized by the savages. They arrived at Galveston on June 13th, after an eleven weeks voyage. The two cemeteries, however, are quite distinct from each other. In 1848, Francis Frede returned to Germany and married Louise Eilers. Uncle Asa was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge, at Columbus, respected and believed by his brethren; and they with the assistance of the Lodges at Weimar and Osage, with the beautiful and impressive ceremony of that order, laid him away, in the presence of a large assemblage of friends and acquaintances, with his former wife, with trust in God and faith in immortality. Sadly, Theres died of Cholera on their voyage to Canada in 1832 in Buffalo, New York. In 1857 Rebecca died, and Asa remarried. (Asas wifes great-grandfather). Filing states Army Corps of Engineers an eleven weeks voyage their uncles and cousins by 1824 his common-law wife arrived... 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