Individual Details

Hannah Davis

(1778 - 11 Apr 1802)

Hannah Davis had an illegitimate stillborn son born February 5, 1790 (McCausland, p. 152) and a son born April 7, 1792.

Events

Birth	1778
Marriage	6 Sep 1801	Maine, United States - Daniel Townsend
Death	11 Apr 1802	Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States
Burial		Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Families

Spouse

Daniel Townsend (1777 - 1829)

Notes

Death

listed as "w. of Daniel Townsend" in Henry Sewall Webster, ed., Vital Records of Gardiner, Maine to the Year 1892, Vol. II Marriages and Deaths. Maine Historical Society, 1914, p. 451. In the "Vital Records of Sidney, Maine," her death date given was April 11, 1802, age 21

Martha Ballard, a midwife, wrote in her diary that she learned of "the death of Daniel Townsin's (so spelled) wife in Child birth on April 15, 1802 (Robert R. McCausland and Cynthia MacAlman McCausland, eds., The Diary of Martha Ballard 1784-1812. [Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992], p. 574.)

Burial

Her tombstone reads: "Hannah Townsend, wife of Daniel, died April 11, 1802, age 21" ("Vital Records of Sidney, Maine," Book III Cemeteries, p. 2 (7). This day of death differs from the Gardiner records.

Endnotes

1. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .

2. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).

3. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).

4. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .

5. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas), 7.

6. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .