There must not be a headstone on this grave as Joel was not listed in the transcription.
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, March 7, 1930
Joel TOWNSEND, aged 82, a resident of Rochester and vicinity all of his life with the exception of the past two years, died Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at his home in Clay township, Cass county. Death followed an illness of three years with paralysis, during which time he had been bedfast.
The deceased was born on the TOWNSEND homestead, one mile east of Mt. Olive, Fulton county, on May 12, 1848, the son of John and Vesta TOWNSEND. He grew to manhood in the Mt. Olive neighborhood and for several years followed the occupation of farming. Later he moved to Rochester and for many years was a traveling salesman for the Malleable Streel Range Co., of South Bend. He had been married three times, all wives being deceased. His last wife was Mrs. Cynthia SCHUYLER, of Rochester, who died in 1924.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Robert MILLER, of Logansport, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Lucy HARRISON, of Tabor, Iowa, who is lying at the point of death, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in this city. Rev. T. L. STOVALL will have charge and burial will be made in the Citizens cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1930
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, March 7, 1930
Joel TOWNSEND, aged 82, a resident of Rochester and vicinity all of his life with the exception of the past two years, died Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at his home in Clay township, Cass county. Death followed an illness of three years with paralysis, during which time he had been bedfast.
The deceased was born on the TOWNSEND homestead, one mile east of Mt. Olive, Fulton county, on May 12, 1848, the son of John and Vesta TOWNSEND. He grew to manhood in the Mt. Olive neighborhood and for several years followed the occupation of farming. Later he moved to Rochester and for many years was a traveling salesman for the Malleable Streel Range Co., of South Bend. He had been married three times, all wives being deceased. His last wife was Mrs. Cynthia SCHUYLER, of Rochester, who died in 1924.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Robert MILLER, of Logansport, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Lucy HARRISON, of Tabor, Iowa, who is lying at the point of death, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in this city. Rev. T. L. STOVALL will have charge and burial will be made in the Citizens cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1930
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
There must not be a headstone on this grave as Joel was not listed in the transcription.
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, March 7, 1930
Joel TOWNSEND, aged 82, a resident of Rochester and vicinity all of his life with the exception of the past two years, died Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at his home in Clay township, Cass county. Death followed an illness of three years with paralysis, during which time he had been bedfast.
The deceased was born on the TOWNSEND homestead, one mile east of Mt. Olive, Fulton county, on May 12, 1848, the son of John and Vesta TOWNSEND. He grew to manhood in the Mt. Olive neighborhood and for several years followed the occupation of farming. Later he moved to Rochester and for many years was a traveling salesman for the Malleable Streel Range Co., of South Bend. He had been married three times, all wives being deceased. His last wife was Mrs. Cynthia SCHUYLER, of Rochester, who died in 1924.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Robert MILLER, of Logansport, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Lucy HARRISON, of Tabor, Iowa, who is lying at the point of death, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in this city. Rev. T. L. STOVALL will have charge and burial will be made in the Citizens cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1930
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, March 7, 1930
Joel TOWNSEND, aged 82, a resident of Rochester and vicinity all of his life with the exception of the past two years, died Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at his home in Clay township, Cass county. Death followed an illness of three years with paralysis, during which time he had been bedfast.
The deceased was born on the TOWNSEND homestead, one mile east of Mt. Olive, Fulton county, on May 12, 1848, the son of John and Vesta TOWNSEND. He grew to manhood in the Mt. Olive neighborhood and for several years followed the occupation of farming. Later he moved to Rochester and for many years was a traveling salesman for the Malleable Streel Range Co., of South Bend. He had been married three times, all wives being deceased. His last wife was Mrs. Cynthia SCHUYLER, of Rochester, who died in 1924.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Robert MILLER, of Logansport, two grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Lucy HARRISON, of Tabor, Iowa, who is lying at the point of death, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church in this city. Rev. T. L. STOVALL will have charge and burial will be made in the Citizens cemetery.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1930
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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