John Townsend

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Jay Charles Grahm/William James Walker ← Hannah Townsend ← John Townsend

In brief

Born October/22, 1786, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He married April 11, 1811. He died March/22, 1869, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Family

Father

Isaac Townsend

Mother

Rachael King

Spouse

Elisabeth Shoemaker

m. 1811

Children

George Townsend
b. February 20, 1812
Mary Townsend
b. October 6, 1813
m. Andrew Adams
Susanna Townsend
b. February 15, 1816
m. John Barbour
Isaac Townsend
b. February 15, 1818
m. Rebecca P. Dickey
d. April 6, 1844
Hannah Townsend · in this line
b. June 11, 1820, in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
m. Hannah Townsend, 1838
d. January 9, 1893, in Washington, Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
John Shoemaker Townsend
b. August 10, 1822, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
m. Susannah/Susan Dickey, March 1, 1842
d. November 14, 1908, in Tama County, Iowa
Rachel Townsend
b. December 22, 1824
m. Henry Rose
Joseph Townsend
b. January 20, 1827, in Pennsylvania
William H. Townsend
b. April 27, 1829, in Pennsylvania
m. Hanah E. Vansant
d. June 9, 1855
Eliza Jane Townsend
b. April 15, 1831, in Pennsylvania
m. Simon Peter Townsend
d. 1913
Daniel W. Townsend
b. April 29, 1834, in Pennsylvania
m. Elizabeth M. Kier
d. Abt. 1902

Siblings

William Townsend
m. Elizabeth Shoemaker

Life story

An Elder of Poke Run

John Townsend was born on October 21, 1786, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the son of Isaac Townsend and Rachel King, and married Elisabeth Shoemaker on April 11, 1811. He worked as both a blacksmith and a farmer in Washington Township, building a substantial property along the way — valued at $5,000 by 1860 — and served as a ruling elder of the Poke Run Presbyterian Church. John died in Westmoreland County on March 21, 1869.

Sources (4)

Lillian (Shumaker) Lankerd, compiler, Genealogy of Three Loudon County Virginia Shoemaker Lines (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Lillian Lankerd, 1962), 112; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofthree01lank/page/2/mode/2up : accessed 13 November 2023).
Membership application, Jay Russell Townsend, no. C8784, The Indiana Society of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Volume 344; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2204/images/32596_242293-00400 : accessed 21 May 2024).
1850 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 423b, dwelling 650, family 650, Family of John Townsend; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 836; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8054/images/4205399_00304 : accessed 22 May 2024).
1860 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 126, dwelling 935, family 877, Family of John Townsend; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1196; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7667/images/4293564_00580 : accessed 22 May 2024).