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Elisabeth Shoemaker

Generation 6 back

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

Born

June 26, 1792, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Died

c. 1870 · Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Married

April 11, 1811

Also known as

Elizabeth

Family

Father

Mother

Child in this line

Spouse

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 · d. April 6, 1844
m. Rebecca P. Dickey
John Shoemaker Townsend
b. August 10, 1822, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · d. November 14, 1908, in Tama County, Iowa
m. Susannah/Susan Dickey, March 1, 1842
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 · d. June 9, 1855
m. Hanah E. Vansant
Eliza Jane Townsend
b. April 15, 1831, in Pennsylvania · d. 1913
m. Simon Peter Townsend
Daniel W. Townsend
b. April 29, 1834, in Pennsylvania · d. Abt. 1902
m. Elizabeth M. Kier

Siblings

Philip Shoemaker
b. January 25, 1784, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · d. April 10, 1860
m. Elizabeth Rose
Catherine Shoemaker
b. Abt. 1784-1790 · d. Abt. 1818-
m. John Patton
Susanna Shoemaker
b. Abt. 1784-1790
m. James McKee
John Shoemaker
b. December 20, 1799 · d. May 22, 1881
m. Christina Smith

In brief

Born June 26, 1792, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. She married April 11, 1811. She died September 151/222, 1870 in Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Life story

A Long Widowhood

Elisabeth Shoemaker was born on June 26, 1792, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Shoemaker and Mary Ann Baker, and married John Townsend on April 11, 1811. After his death she continued to live in Washington Township, eventually moving into the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Hannah and James Walker. Elizabeth died on September 15, 1870.

At a glance

Lived

Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania · North Washington, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Sources (5)

Lillian (Shumaker) Lankerd, compiler, Genealogy of Three Loudon County Virginia Shoemaker Lines (Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Lillian Lankerd, 1962), 2 & 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).
1870 United States Census, Washington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, page 16, dwelling 119, family 116, Family of James Walker; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1466; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4276467_00707 : accessed 8 November 2023).
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).