Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Townsend, Daniel, Jul 1916

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Taken from McDonald Pa Outlook 22 Jul 1916

Struck by a street car at Sturgeon late Saturday afternoon, 
Daniel TOWNSEND, aged 85 years, a veteran of the Crimean and Civil wars, 
received injuries that resulted in his death in the Allegheny General 
hospital, Pittsburgh. The accident happened at 5 o'clock and he died at 9 
o'clock Saturday night.
 
Leaving the home of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Margaret GORMAN where 
he had made a call, Mr. TOWNSEND stepped from behind a pile of brush on the 
tracks of the Oakdale and McDonald Railway company in front of an 
approaching car. He was knocked down and run over.
 
Mr. TOWNSEND was born in Ireland. After seeing service in the 
British army in the Crimean war he came to Pittsburgh and worked in the 
steel mills there. When the clash between the North and South was 
precipitated he enlisted as a member of the __th Pennsylvania regiment of 
infantry and saw active service throughout almost the entire war. For a 
number of years, however, he had resided at Sturgeon, retiring and making 
his home with another stepdaughter, Mrs. Charles SPRINGER.
 
When in his prime Mr. TOWNSEND was a man of unusual strength. 
He stood about six feet three inches. Wounded during an engagement in the 
Civil was he was told by the surgeon that he only had a few hours to live. 
After emphatically informing the physician that he did not know what he was 
talking about, Townsend made a remarkable recovery. Mr. TOWNSEND was twice 
married. A son Daniel, by his first marriage, is now with an Ohio regiment 
on the Mexican border. Mrs. Elizabeth MARTIN, of Tyrone, Pa., is a daughter 
by this marriage. He leaves one son by his second marriage, William 
TOWNSEND of Sturgeon.
 
Funeral services were held at the SPRINGER home in Sturgeon 
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment was in the Homewood cemetery, 
Pittsburgh.