Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Townsend, Lafayette 1909
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, February 19, 1909
Lafayette Townsend was born in Monroe county, New York, December 11, 1841, and 
died at his home in Ionia county February 11, 1909, aged 66 years and 2 
months.  In 1846, with his parents he came to  Michigan and settled on the 
farm where he was living at the time of his death.  

October 30, 1878 he as united in marriage to Miss Martha Carter.  To this 
union were born two children, Mrs. Lulu M. Elvert of Muir, and Charles 
Townsend, who with their mother, also a brother and five sisters, and many 
relatives and friends, are left to mourn his death.  For the pat two years Mr. 
Townsend has been confined to his home in ill health.  Mr. Townsend was a 
Christian and in passing to his reward, left a bright evidence of going to the 
better land where no sickness, no pain, no sorrow ever comes.

The funeral services were held at the LeValley M. E. church in Orange, at 11 
a.m. Sunday, February 14, Rev. E. E. Sprague, officiating.

Card of Thanks:

We wish to thank our kind friends and neighbors who aided us during the 
sickness and at death of our husband and father.  Especially to Rev. Sprague 
for his comforting words and to the singers who sang his favorite hymns.  We 
also thank the W. F. M. S. A. O.O.G., the members of the church, and his 
friends for the beautiful flowers.

Mrs. Martha Townsend
Mr. Charlie Townsend,
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Elvert



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