Dad remembers looking up and holding on to the antennae while moving it. After Gigi died, Uncle Marvin and his wife lived in the old Townsend homestead. She married Jacob F. Dirr in 1836 and moved to Bronweiler, later to America about 1838. A short time after he returned from the war he drowned in Rocky Creek near Columbus. One of the librarians at the LaGrange public library remembers the original building still standing when she was a child. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Fifty-eight years of faithful service was accorded her before the great I AM released her from all suffering and toil, saying Tis enough, come up higher. She was a faithful friend, a loving and self-sacrificing mother, a devoted Christian, whose fight in every walk of life, shone with a brilliancy surpassed by few. Two more sons and two more daughters were born there, including Mary, Grandpa Marion Hopes mother. Asa Townsend (Ancestor) came last. In 1917 she entered the US at Detroit, MI returning from a 3-month visit to relatives in Canada with daughter Orpha (18). He is from Germany. An autopsy was not performed but it was assumed he died of a heart attack in 1950 when Dad was 9 years old. He was buying property and lending money as early as that date. We were not able to determine the location of Gitto Branch. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Dad remembers it took three days and three nights for the family to travel on a train to join Don in D.C. After the war the family moved back to Houston before moving to Hunt, TX along with Gramps and Wee Wee, sometime in 45 or 46. She was born on 19 Mar 1922 in Houston, Texas and died on 30 Oct 1998 in Kerrville. He immigrated to America in 1838 probably with his sister Catherine, brother Leoplod, and brother law, Elisabeth and Jacob Dirr. His younger brothers moved from Florida a few years earlier and helped Texas win independence from Mexico. The two cemeteries, however, are quite distinct from each other. 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.. The family recalls that the old Townsend homestead was at 1515 Branard Street in Houston, where Gigi (Augustus) and Grandma Townsend lived. [3] He was involved with the stage adaptations of her novels. Mr. Townsend was the member of the state democratic executive committee for the Eighteenth senatorial district. From quarters in his garage, he operated the American Botanical Exchange, selling and exchanging plants with individuals and institutions throughout the world, but especially in Europe and in North and South America. On this site he built a two story building that for many years was the largest building in LaGrange. The Townsend, Burford, Harvey, and Mann ancestors immigrated to America and settled in Puritan New England or in the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown. He died on 14 Oct 1887 in Yarmouth Twp, Ontario, Canada. It was there that he met and married Rebecca Candacy Harper, the daughter of Leonard Harper. One of the children, Louisa Maria Clara, was born in Amsterdam on March 25, l824. WebThe StephensTownsendMurphy Party consisted of ten families who migrated from Iowa to California prior to the MexicanAmerican War and the California Gold Rush. The house was built on the main road to Kerrville on 12 acres of Gramps property. Uncle Don and Dad began school in Hunt. According to Ms. Wyatt, Thomas Townsend and his wife, Elizabeth Stapleton, had eight sons and one daughter. She and George are buried at Forest Park Cemetery , Houston, Harris County, Texas, Plot: Section 12 Whispering Pines. On February 11, 1846 he received an additional homestead grant of 320 acres in Bexar County. WebHis wife is Melissa Crawford Townsend Stephen J. Townsend Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Stephen is survived by his wife Donna Townsend; his children, Sarah McGuire, Tiffany Townsend, Devan Norsworthy, Clint Townsend; his grandchildren, Mikayla, Stephanie, Morgan, Wyatt, and Sunny; and his brother, Brian (Shari) Townsend. He joined the Army and was posted in Washington D.C. to the Army Corps of Engineers. In early life Uncle Asa dedicated himself to God, and the good and at the altars of the church, contracted an alliance with Heaven. This monument is of Scotch granite and weighs 15,000 pounds. To those now bowed in grief and left in the stricken home, we extend our deepest sympathy. In 1826 two of the brothers, Thomas Roderick and Spencer Burton, made the long trip to Texas to investigate these land offers. Thomas Townsend was born circa 1765 at probably Orange Co., North Carolina. He worked for the railroads in several jobs. An award was made to the brother and sister Caspar and Elisabeth. He previously commanded the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from March 2018 until June 2019 and XVIII Airborne Corps from May 2015 until January 2018. This book is in the collection of McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario. Exec/Trus: son Stephen Townsend. According to Huxford, Leonard Harper Sr. came to Liberty Co., GA (which was later cut into McIntosh Co.), with his son, Leonard Jr., during the Revolutionary War. He married Velma Blanche Fisher, daughter of George Lewis Fisher and Alice Melinda Palmer on 05 Jun 1917 in Houston. WebStephen J. Townsend is a United States Army officer who commanded the XVIII Airborne Corps from May 2015 until January 2018. WebThe StephensTownsendMurphy Party consisted of ten families who migrated from Iowa to California prior to the MexicanAmerican War and the California Gold Rush. From Georgia he went to and remained for a short time in Madison, Florida, and from thence with a devoted wife and 9 children he came to Texas in the fall of 1837, and settled in Columbus in the spring of 1838, where or in its vicinity he has resided ever since. He received a land grant in what was then Harrisburg County, Republic of Texas, on December 5, 1839. WebStephen J. Townsend (born 1959) is a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander, United States Africa Command from 26 July 2019 to 8 August 2022. Among other occupations he was a cotton broker. The Civil War brought financial loss, but Texas was spared the destruction and severe hardship experienced by the rest of the Confederacy. Here he met and married Rebecca Harper about 1823. Trouble with Indians wasnt long in coming. When he was a young child Moses and his family left Florida and in 1838 settled in Colorado County near Borden between Columbus and LaGrange on their original 640 acre land grant. To those now bowed in grief and left in the stricken home, we extend our deepest sympathy. His grandfather, Asa Townsend, came to Texas from Georgia in 1836. First-hand information as remembered by Bryan Patterson,Monday, November 10, 2014.. These were Crown grants from King George III signed by William Bull Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of The Province of South Carolina. It could be that William and Light were not old enough to petition and own land in their own right, so Benedictus petitioned for it in his name and then transferred it to them when they came of age. 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. He has sixty acres near town, part in pasture, and on this he has some blooded Jersey cattle. Location: southwest of FM 1890 about 3.5 miles west of its intersection with State Highway 71, about 100 yards to the South and across a ravine from the much larger Fitzgerald Cemetery. He is a brother of State Senator M. H. Townsend, of Columbus, Texas, and is a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, elected for two years commencing August, 1894. He graduated from Vergennes High School in 1971. The grant is in third class patent records of the General Land office in Austin Texas, volume II, page 263. In 1920, Fisher visited Santa Catalina Island and collected a few specimens on the ridge above the School House, Avalon, June 16, 1920. The second grant for 50 acres implies one other person was with him or possibly decided to join him shortly after he moved to SC based on the dates of the petitions. He grew up in the Marlboro district of South Carolina and attended school at an academy in Anson County, North Carolina. WebGeneral Stephen J. Townsend assumed duties as Commander, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command on March 2, 2018, after serving as Commander, XVIII Airborne Corps, the U.S. Armys rapid deployment contingency corps, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was honorably discharged on February 15, 1864 at Columbus. He was the son of Johannes and Anna Maria (Luz) Fink, her parents were Anna Maria (Pfeiffer) and Darran Luz. Caspar Fink owned a General Store on lot 172 on the town square. They were originally German immigrants to Canada in the decades before the Civil War. In Texas the men of the regiment saw no combat; they served primarily as scouts and performed garrison duty. She was born 14 Oct 1897 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada and died 18 Sep 1952 in Houston. 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. At one time, Dirr and Elizabeths brother Caspar were in business partnership together. Francis Joseph Frede, was born at Coblenz, Hanover on February 13, 1808. She is buried beside her husband at the LaGrange City Cemetery. For comfort we can hope they will look to One who alone can give it. His name, with Mustang Prairie as his stated place of residence, appears on the list of petitioners asking the Texas Congress to establish Houston County in 1837. Grandfather 37 yrs. He had a brother, Anton B. Frede. During the Mexican War Leopold, Caspars brother, enlisted in Captain Roberts Company, 1st Texas Volunteers. He was one of the first organizers and one of the first board of directors of the Arctic Ice Company, of Hallettsville. The company was mustered under the old oak tree in front of the State Bank. On 9 October 1775, Light Townsen and John Townsen signed a petition in St. Davids Parish, Craven County to the Council of Safety of South Carolina for the issue of officer commissions for Robert Lide, Thomas Poe and William Watkins to head a company of Volunteers in opposition to the British. From the property description in the deeds, the Millfield plantation encompassed the Gitto Branch on the south side of Broadkill Creek in Sussex County, Delaware. In 1857 Rebecca Reba died and was buried in the Borden Cemetery, Colorado County. But that God whom he had served and trusted sustained and cheered him in his age and infirmity, and gave him a safe and triumphant passage across the dark river. 34 as a master mason in 1847, at LaGrange, Texas. 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. On October 4, 1870 Julia married Henry Berkley Kaulbach, which ended the long guardianship of Caspar Fink. 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. Georges Mother was Almira Mann, daughter of Elijah Mann and Lois Graves was born on 24 Aug 1832 in Southwold, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. [1][2], In 1900, he married Frances Hodgson Burnett in Genoa. He removed to what was to become Marlboro County, South Carolina by 1771 where he acquired undeveloped land and continued to raise his family. 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). Their dead brother Thomas family came to Texas later. : W.G. The Lights had lived since at least 1696, when John Light the elder, (Lucillas Grandfather) acquired the 200-acre estate called Millfield. Asas Obituary: Asa Townsend died at the house of his son, Mr. H. S. Townsend, on the 27th September; Mr. Asa Townsend in the 81st year of his age. However, the location of Millfield is likely within a mile or two south of where present day Delaware Highway 1 crosses the Broadkill River. During the Sabine Pass Emergency the unit was sworn into full Confederate Service. WebStephen Townsend, left Florida with his brother Thomas Townsend and cousin William Stapleton, but Stephen and his wife had to stop in Louisiana for the birth of their child. Never knew it being a German Company. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania), 42 (4): 293313, Fall/Winter 2002, The following info was not edited 1/26/2021 and may or may not be correct.---------------------------------------------------------, Stephen was born in 1700. George was born on 29 Jan 1791 in Waldulum, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany and died on 28 Aug 1873 in Port Stanley, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. Fisher became a music teacher by profession, and a botanist by avocation. 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. See Book A page 18 of Jefferson County Deed Records. This record places Benedictus in Sussex County in 1736. In 1827, when Jefferson County was organized, Monticello became the county seat. Sadly, Theres died of Cholera on their voyage to Canada in 1832 in Buffalo, New York. Although the last raid on Columbus itself occurred in 1838, the savages continued to molest isolated families for several more years. Occasional price lists were printed from type which he set up himself. In Columbus on April 19, 1845, he served on the committee that drafted the preamble and resolution for theannexationof Texas to the United States. Dad (Ron) played football for the Tivy Antlers and played golf in his spare time.. Kampmann and Caspar Fink were appointed appraisers, of Fredes estate and filed inventory on September 2, 1852. 68 in Columbus, and became treasurer in 1850. Bounty grant for military service in the Texas Revolution 1836 in Colorado and Fayette Counties. She was living at 708 Euclid Avenue in Houston with husband George Lewis Fisher (50) and daughter Orpha Irene (18). They returned, after several months, with favorable reports. Colorado County Citizen, Sept 5, 1878It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of our dear friend, Mrs. R. C. Grace. 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. Townsend and his wife, Melissa, have two adult children -- an Army captain and an Army veteran, according to his official Army biography. This deed likely was to provide John Light clear title to his fathers land, which he likely had title to under the right of primogeniture. Sarah); gdau: Leah Townsend (dau of son William); Samuel Coston Townsend. He qualified M.R.C.S. After settling in Houston in 1912, he made numerous trips to Mexico, as well as collecting widely in the United States. Uncle Asa, as he was generally and familiarly called, brought to our State a sound mind in a sound body. A man of great energy, industry and capacity, (qualities that have descended to his numerous progeny,) he has left his mark upon society for good such as few have been permitted to rival. Marys parents were born in Germany and Holland and moved to Texas to seek their fortunes in the new Republic. As his sons remained for several years in South Carolina this implies that he likely died there before 1769. Velma Fishers grandmother, Almira Manns, ancestors are 17th century New England colonial immigrants. Thomass family moved to Texas in the 1830s after he died in Florida. She was born July 19, 1820, died Sept 4, 1878. The Creek Indians made a raid on Leonards plantation in Liberty Co., in 1788. [1] Townesend was a stage actor under the name Will Dennis and assisted the Amateur Dramatic Society of St Bartholomew's Hospital. , and E.L. Townsend, and a half sister, Rebecca Grace Waller., M.S. In his early manhood he removed to Georgia, where he married and lived for about twenty years. Their wishes were carried out and the church was in use until 1895 until it was moved to Ellinger where it remains. in 1887. August Emmett Townsend, son of Moses Solon Townsend Jr. and Mary Agnes Fink was born 11 Jan 1891 in Hallettsville, Texas. Following that he taught two months in the school and then became telegraph operator for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for two years. It was for 320 acres of third class headright having arrived in Texas prior to January 1, 1840 but after October 1, 1837. In addition to cattle interests, he owned a large general store in Columbus. He did not maintain a permanent herbarium of his own: any specimens he acquired might be sold or re-exchanged at any time. He married Alice Melinda Palmer, daughter of Jacobe Cummins Palmer and Alice Olympus Tetram.