Birth date is 11 May 1816 or 1817, Masontown, Fayette county, Pa. She died at her daughter's home in Bruceton Mills, Preston county, WV
(Contributed by Delores Phamie)
From The OBIT:
“Aunt Betsy” Townsend, one of he most notable figures in Fayette County, died Thursday evening, April 28, 1910 at the home of her daughter, Harriet Townsend Goodwin, at Bruceton Mills, Preston, W. Va. She was almost 94 years of age, according to her friends, but insisted that she was 104 years old. She had been in the best of health until a few days before her death. She had gone to her daughter’s three or four weeks ago from her home in German Township, and was stricken with pneumonia, at first thought to have only been a bad cold.
The funeral took place Sunday, services being conducted at the home of Mrs. Townsend’s son William and also at the Mennonite Church, Rev. Alpheus Debok officiated. He had been requested by Mrs. Townsend to “Leave me with God, but preach to the living.”
Mrs. Townsend had herself selected her pallbearers, who were Ellisworth and D. F. Johnston, D. L. Durr, James Kane and Chris and Chauncey Deffenbaugh.
Mrs. Townsend was born in the vicinity of Masontown, Fayette, PA, on 11 May 1816, to Hugh J. McCann and Patience Helmick McCann and spent practically her entire life there. She was known to everybody in that section as “Aunt Betsy” and many never knew what her last name was. She was illiterate and in her early life had many troubles. However her longevity is partly attributed to the fact that she did not worry and she walked everywhere. Up until recently Mrs. Townsend was as sprightly as a woman of 50.
Betsy was buried in the Masontown Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Besides her daughter, Harriet, in Bruceton Mills, Mrs. Townsend is survived by four sons, all of them veterans of the Civil War: Samuel and Hugh at the Dayton Ohio Soldiers Home, William of German Township, and Joseph of Nicholson Township. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Joanna.
(Contributed by Delores Phamie)
From The OBIT:
“Aunt Betsy” Townsend, one of he most notable figures in Fayette County, died Thursday evening, April 28, 1910 at the home of her daughter, Harriet Townsend Goodwin, at Bruceton Mills, Preston, W. Va. She was almost 94 years of age, according to her friends, but insisted that she was 104 years old. She had been in the best of health until a few days before her death. She had gone to her daughter’s three or four weeks ago from her home in German Township, and was stricken with pneumonia, at first thought to have only been a bad cold.
The funeral took place Sunday, services being conducted at the home of Mrs. Townsend’s son William and also at the Mennonite Church, Rev. Alpheus Debok officiated. He had been requested by Mrs. Townsend to “Leave me with God, but preach to the living.”
Mrs. Townsend had herself selected her pallbearers, who were Ellisworth and D. F. Johnston, D. L. Durr, James Kane and Chris and Chauncey Deffenbaugh.
Mrs. Townsend was born in the vicinity of Masontown, Fayette, PA, on 11 May 1816, to Hugh J. McCann and Patience Helmick McCann and spent practically her entire life there. She was known to everybody in that section as “Aunt Betsy” and many never knew what her last name was. She was illiterate and in her early life had many troubles. However her longevity is partly attributed to the fact that she did not worry and she walked everywhere. Up until recently Mrs. Townsend was as sprightly as a woman of 50.
Betsy was buried in the Masontown Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Besides her daughter, Harriet, in Bruceton Mills, Mrs. Townsend is survived by four sons, all of them veterans of the Civil War: Samuel and Hugh at the Dayton Ohio Soldiers Home, William of German Township, and Joseph of Nicholson Township. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Joanna.
Birth date is 11 May 1816 or 1817, Masontown, Fayette county, Pa. She died at her daughter's home in Bruceton Mills, Preston county, WV
(Contributed by Delores Phamie)
From The OBIT:
“Aunt Betsy” Townsend, one of he most notable figures in Fayette County, died Thursday evening, April 28, 1910 at the home of her daughter, Harriet Townsend Goodwin, at Bruceton Mills, Preston, W. Va. She was almost 94 years of age, according to her friends, but insisted that she was 104 years old. She had been in the best of health until a few days before her death. She had gone to her daughter’s three or four weeks ago from her home in German Township, and was stricken with pneumonia, at first thought to have only been a bad cold.
The funeral took place Sunday, services being conducted at the home of Mrs. Townsend’s son William and also at the Mennonite Church, Rev. Alpheus Debok officiated. He had been requested by Mrs. Townsend to “Leave me with God, but preach to the living.”
Mrs. Townsend had herself selected her pallbearers, who were Ellisworth and D. F. Johnston, D. L. Durr, James Kane and Chris and Chauncey Deffenbaugh.
Mrs. Townsend was born in the vicinity of Masontown, Fayette, PA, on 11 May 1816, to Hugh J. McCann and Patience Helmick McCann and spent practically her entire life there. She was known to everybody in that section as “Aunt Betsy” and many never knew what her last name was. She was illiterate and in her early life had many troubles. However her longevity is partly attributed to the fact that she did not worry and she walked everywhere. Up until recently Mrs. Townsend was as sprightly as a woman of 50.
Betsy was buried in the Masontown Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Besides her daughter, Harriet, in Bruceton Mills, Mrs. Townsend is survived by four sons, all of them veterans of the Civil War: Samuel and Hugh at the Dayton Ohio Soldiers Home, William of German Township, and Joseph of Nicholson Township. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Joanna.
(Contributed by Delores Phamie)
From The OBIT:
“Aunt Betsy” Townsend, one of he most notable figures in Fayette County, died Thursday evening, April 28, 1910 at the home of her daughter, Harriet Townsend Goodwin, at Bruceton Mills, Preston, W. Va. She was almost 94 years of age, according to her friends, but insisted that she was 104 years old. She had been in the best of health until a few days before her death. She had gone to her daughter’s three or four weeks ago from her home in German Township, and was stricken with pneumonia, at first thought to have only been a bad cold.
The funeral took place Sunday, services being conducted at the home of Mrs. Townsend’s son William and also at the Mennonite Church, Rev. Alpheus Debok officiated. He had been requested by Mrs. Townsend to “Leave me with God, but preach to the living.”
Mrs. Townsend had herself selected her pallbearers, who were Ellisworth and D. F. Johnston, D. L. Durr, James Kane and Chris and Chauncey Deffenbaugh.
Mrs. Townsend was born in the vicinity of Masontown, Fayette, PA, on 11 May 1816, to Hugh J. McCann and Patience Helmick McCann and spent practically her entire life there. She was known to everybody in that section as “Aunt Betsy” and many never knew what her last name was. She was illiterate and in her early life had many troubles. However her longevity is partly attributed to the fact that she did not worry and she walked everywhere. Up until recently Mrs. Townsend was as sprightly as a woman of 50.
Betsy was buried in the Masontown Cemetery in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Besides her daughter, Harriet, in Bruceton Mills, Mrs. Townsend is survived by four sons, all of them veterans of the Civil War: Samuel and Hugh at the Dayton Ohio Soldiers Home, William of German Township, and Joseph of Nicholson Township. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Joanna.
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